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Anarchy Media Player (28 posts)

  1. malcs_64
    Member
    Posted 15 years ago #

    I've been trying to install the Anarchy Media Player for my Mu for a week now. Its always run fine on my standalone WP installation. But every time I try to install it on the MU, either it just turns videos into urls that go to YouTube rather than embedding them properly or else every graphic on a given page disappears completely.

    http://bonnee.towerofbabel.com/

    Any idea what's going on?

  2. boonika
    Member
    Posted 15 years ago #

  3. dgilmour
    Member
    Posted 15 years ago #

    @malcs_64: One post is enough. Can you confirm you're not using the same software? You need the WPMU version:
    http://an-archos.com/wp-content/uploads/File/anarchy-media-wpmu.zip

  4. malcs_64
    Member
    Posted 15 years ago #

    Sorry for starting a new thread but when a spammer posted after I did I figured the thread was so old I might as well begin a new one.

    Not only have I tried using anarchy-media-wpmu but I've also tried anarchy-media-wpmu-25b. I've even tried the non-WPMU version under the assumption that since WPMU doesn't work for me maybe the non-WPMU version would work too. No dice.

    I've just tried boonika's suggestion of Viper's Video Quicktags and even that doesn't work. I get:

    Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class VipersVideoQuicktags in /wp-content/plugins/vipers-video-quicktags/vipers-video-quicktags.php on line 57

  5. Trent
    Member
    Posted 15 years ago #

    WPMU means that plugin has to go in the /mu-plugins/ folder. Copy vipers-video-quicktags.php into the /mu-plugins/ folder and then place the entire /vipers-video-quicktags/ into the mu-plugins folder as well. I would take it right out of the plugins folder unless you want individual users to turn it on or off as they please.

    Trent

  6. malcs_64
    Member
    Posted 15 years ago #

    I was simply doing what it said here:

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/vipers-video-quicktags/installation/

    Installing For WPMU

    Install as stated above to plugins, but place vipers-video-quicktags.php in the mu-plugins folder. Just that file, nothing else.

    But now that I've done both what those installation instructions said as well as what you just replied, neither Anarchy nor Vipers work for me.

  7. boonika
    Member
    Posted 15 years ago #

    Did You delete vipers-video-quicktags.php from the vipers-video-quicktags folder you've placed inside plugins directory? You can't have two vipers-video-quicktags.php files.

  8. malcs_64
    Member
    Posted 15 years ago #

    Yes, I deleted the entire thing from the plugins directory and now its only in the muplugins directory. Still no luck.

  9. boonika
    Member
    Posted 15 years ago #

    Ask Viper007 for advice. He'll surely help you.

  10. malcs_64
    Member
    Posted 15 years ago #

    Rightio. But while I'm waiting for that to get figured out what about my problems with Anarchy?

  11. boonika
    Member
    Posted 15 years ago #

    I myself don't like Anarchy. Had bad experience with it. Maybe it's just me. Viper007 does really decent plugins. I use 3 of them.

  12. malcs_64
    Member
    Posted 15 years ago #

    Anarchy has always worked fine on my standalone WP but with WPMU its given me nothing but trouble. Still, here's hoping Viper007 can help me out. My head is starting to hurt from all this banging against the wall. :-)

    Thanks for the help, boonika.

  13. boonika
    Member
    Posted 15 years ago #

    Take a rest:) I've just finished my COD4 session and I'm going to sleep now:D

  14. malcs_64
    Member
    Posted 15 years ago #

    Nothing I do seems to work with my WPMU when it comes to videos or graphics. Before I installed Anarchy Media Player graphics showed up fine. But once I installed Anarchy graphics would disappear altogether and videos would get sucked out leaving formatting problems to boot. Deleting Anarchy altogether didn't seem to do any good. Installing Viper's Video Quicktags hasn't solved the problem either. It was only a few weeks ago that the plugin qtranslate did a lot of damage to my MU and I had to revert to database restores. Database restores don't even help fix the damage that Anarchy has done to my MU. Does anyone have any idea what's going on with my Mu?

  15. Trent
    Member
    Posted 15 years ago #

    I currently use Viper's quicktags right now with one install on WPMU 2.6 and one with the latest dev TRAC version both running Viper's plugin since WPMU 1.5. I am not using 6.0.3 (recent update), but the version I am using on line 16 of the main plugin file is:

    var $folder = '/wp-content/mu-plugins/vipers-video-quicktags'; // You shouldn't need to change this ;)

    I did have to change it as it was saying /wp-content/plugins/vipers-video-quicktags and not mu-plugins. It does work and I can say without hesitation that other than the code it needs to output, it doesn't do anything to your database.

    Once WPMU 1.5 came out, Anarchy wouldn't work with the new tinyMCE editor and wasn't until recently did Zeug update the plugin. I haven't had a chance to play with it yet though.

    Maybe check the plugin php file to see if there are references to the /plugins/ folder that need to be changed to /mu-plugins/ as that is what I needed to do to get it working myself.

    Trent

  16. malcs_64
    Member
    Posted 15 years ago #

    I don't see anything like that at all on my main plugin file.

  17. Trent
    Member
    Posted 15 years ago #

    The new plugin file in 6.0.3 has a few places where it is hardcoded to /plugins/ that need to be changed if you are putting it in mu-plugins folder.

  18. malcs_64
    Member
    Posted 15 years ago #

    So I follow these instructions:

    "Installing For WPMU

    Install as stated above to plugins, but place vipers-video-quicktags.php in the mu-plugins folder. Just that file, nothing else."

    But once I put vipers-video-quicktags.php in the mu-plugins folder I have to edit the file and change all the instances of "plugins" to "mu-plugins"?

  19. malcs_64
    Member
    Posted 15 years ago #

    Could someone please just take a look at this blog on my mu

    http://bonnee.towerofbabel.com/

    and tell me what could cause this? Before I stuck in Anarchy there was a graphic as the masthead. There were videos on the page. After I tried configuring Anarchy all the graphics got sucked off the page. Its happened to other blogs in my mu too. Its just sucked off the graphics and the videos leaving sucked formatting problems. VVQ did nothing to fix it. Does anybody know what is going on?

  20. Ovidiu
    Member
    Posted 15 years ago #

    I checked your sourcecode tested i.e. this image in a browser: http://bonnee.towerofbabel.com/files/2008/09/video52ee1c50786b.jpg
    and the file doesn't show but loads the page, I'd say tehre is some .htaccess error?

  21. boonika
    Member
    Posted 15 years ago #

    Btw, I didn't place vipers-video-quicktags.php inside mu-plugins directory. I left it inside it's own folder in plugins directory. Working fine. Vresion 6.0.3

  22. webmaestro
    Member
    Posted 15 years ago #

    If anyone's interested, Anarchy Media Player version 2.5 was released on 9/15 (no apparent warning after much silence... just boom!).

    My biggest issue with switching to Viper's Video Quicktags were all the raw [kml_embed movie="http://yatayata.com/path/to/my/video?id=YYY" width="XXX" height="ZZZ" wmode="transparent" /] tags scattered throughout my users' blogs (left over from using AMP, not any fault of VVQ!).

    However, the developer of VVQ has added code to enable display of [kml_embed movie="http://www.yatayata.com/path/to/my/video?id=YYY" width="XXX" height="ZZZ" wmode="transparent" /] via VVQ as well. I don't know a release date, but it should be forthcoming.

  23. malcs_64
    Member
    Posted 15 years ago #

    The latest update is that with Charity's blog she's able to post pictures and they look fine

    http://charity.towerofbabel.com/

    and Rudy is even able to post videos and have them play on his blog

    http://rudyscorner.towerofbabel.com/

    but for some reason the pictures and videos that Bonnee posts can't be seen

    http://bonnee.towerofbabel.com/

    same with James' blog

    http://jamesschwartz.towerofbabel.com/

    I've been trying to figure this out for a while now and I can't. I've even just deleted and rebuilt Bonnee's and James' blogs and that didn't make any difference. I'm wondering if perhaps the theme choices aren't compatible with the code, but that shouldn't make any difference at all.

    Anyone have any ideas?

  24. webmaestro
    Member
    Posted 15 years ago #

    To follow up with my last post, Viper's Video Quicktags version 6.1.x or later, I believe) supports Anarchy Media Player style quicktags, as well as VVQ's style. I installed it on my WPMU install last week and it works great!

    NOTE: I notice that VVQ uses SWFObject 2.x, while AMP uses SWFObject 1.5, and the two versions are incompatible. So if you use a plugin (besides AMP, of course!) that requires the older version, you may want to stick with AMP.

    Hope this helps!

  25. bonnee
    Member
    Posted 15 years ago #

    I'm one of the folks that is having problems at tower of babel MU. I use Live Writer to post, but also created a post with the WordPress editor called test and had the same kinds of problems.

    My blog URL is: http://bonnee.towerofbabel.com/

    Here's the timeling and events...

    9/10/2008 All pictures visible, videos showing preview screen like it is embedded but only linked. Changed theme from 'Edublogs Default' to 'MistyLook' by Sadish. Changed header photo.

    Emailed malcs_64 and let him know videos were not embedded. While he was trying to fix these problems the Anarchy player crashed the whole MU twice as he already mentioned. Somehow the images and videos on my blog no longer showed at all. I continued to post utilizing Live Writer to both my blog and http://en.towerofbabel.com. malcs_64 rebuilt my blog several times.

    malcs_64 emailed me and let me know about the problems. Thought I'd try a few things to see if I could help somehow.

    10/1/2008 Changed to the theme called 'Copyblogger'. Reconfigured my Live Writer program for that theme, then posted a blog with a video. The video didn't show up... so it seems my theme is not the problem. At least not fully....

    Activated Embedify thinking it might have something to do with a picture/video plugin. Uploaded a blog with a video. Embedify added visible code to the page and did not display the video... so I deactivated it.

    Activated wordTube it seems to be a plugin for displaying videos on the side bar. Videos didn't show, not what I wanted. Deactivated it.

    Looked in the Media Library none of the videos or images are visible. The files have uploaded but no image shows.
    Tried uploading a photo using Add media: Flash uploader in the write post section. The file uploaded, twice, but no image shows.

    With all of this strangeness it makes me wonder if it's possible something in my account is corrupt and not allowing images? If this is the case rebuilding the page wouldn't change anything.

    10/7/2008 All of the pictures and videos in my blog had broken links so I deleted them all from manage media. I did this thinking one of them might be corrupt and causing a problem... nope.

    Then from WordPress editor I created a new post called test with pictures and a video. http://bonnee.towerofbabel.com/2008/10/04/test/

    I uploaded the photos using the flash uploader and the browser uploader. Both seemed to upload just fine... but you can't view either photo in either the media manager or the blog post.

    I aligned the first photo left, the second photo right, neither aligned properly.

    The URL linked photo is only a URL.

    I used the embed youtube window, copied and pasted the embed code from a video on youtube, clicked ok. The video preview showed within the editor but when published it didn't embed or link.

    When I clicked save, to save the draft, it took me to another page and all my changes disappeared. I had to input everything again.

    I couldn't save as a draft, only publish it.

    Perhaps there are compatibility problems with the editor and IE 7.0 browser with XP service pack 3 operating system. Since the posts don't show up using Live Writer either perhaps there is a glitch with the theme or within the codingg.

    Hope this helps shed some light. I appreciate any help you can give.

  26. andrea_r
    Moderator
    Posted 15 years ago #

    Bonnee, you will have to ask the people who run tower of babel. This support forum is not for end users, but for the people who run the main MU install.

  27. malcs_64
    Member
    Posted 15 years ago #

    Hi Andrea_r,

    That would be me. I thought I'd have Bonnee chime in so we can try and solve her problem together.

  28. bonnee
    Member
    Posted 15 years ago #

    Thought you'd like to know the latest...

    I have found out the issue with videos. When one wants a video to show from youtube for example, it is necessary to utilize the insert youtube button on the WordPress editor and the url of the video instead of the embed code.

    I've updated my blog at http://bonnee.towerofbabel.com/.

    I did this by deleting all the posts and importing them from my other 2 blogs. The images imported but not the videos. Then I went into WordPress editor and inserted the youtube URLs as I described above. This worked.

    I still can't upload images or use Live Writer, as well images and videos that were imported don't show in the media library. Maybe a compatibility issue with IE... who knows.

    But at least now I've got images and videos on the blog.

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