xF2 Add-on XF2 [8WR] XenMedio 2 (Media) PRO 2.1.1.4

• Added Odysee as a service. I dont know why, but thumbnails can not be fetched for some videos. I don't understand what determines when a thumbnail can and can't be fetched. For instance, I had no problems fetching thumbnails for LotusEaters videos, but I couldn't get anything from SaltyCracker.
• Added some checks so that if a thumbnail fetch fails, it does not error out and simply sets the default thumbnail.

YouTube has been doing a lot of changes to their API guidelines in the past few months (XenRio users may know of the problems caused by this). With these new changes, they also now have an API Compliance Enforcement team. Unfortunately, this team has determined that you can not have a generic "play" button on any YouTube video links generated through their API... as it violates their branding guidelines. And if you don't follow the guidelines, they threaten to terminate your API access.

So this new version adds a customizable icon field for services. If you leave it blank, you will continue to use the default generic play fa-play-circle button. However, if YouTube ever comes knocking on your door about it, you can customize this field with fab fa-youtube and the hover will be replaced with a YouTube brand asset. Not all services have font-awesome branding however...

Available font-awesome icons:

Code:

fab fa-dailymotion
fab fa-flickr
fab fa-mixer
fab fa-soundcloud
fab fa-twitch
fab fa-vimeo
fab fa-youtube

If you decide to customize these icons, I recommended adding this code to your EXTRA.css

Code:

.fa-dailymotion { color: #00AAFF !important; }
.fa-flickr { color: #FFFFFF !important; }
.fa-mixer { color:#78D3FF !important; }
.fa-soundcloud { color: #FE5000 !important; }
.fa-twitch { color: #9146FF !important; }
.fa-vimeo { color: #1AB7EA !important; }
.fa-youtube { color: #FFFFFF !important; }

• Support for Mixer has also been added.

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• Added additional search constraints for the media library.
• Normalized the ewrmedio_media phrase in the quick search menu.
• Gallery service embeds will no longer be put into aspect ratio boxes.
• Bit Chute has been added as a service. Like GameStop, FunnyOrDie and Soundcloud, not all information can be fetched, since they don't have a RESTful API.
• YouTube embeds have been updated to follow GDPR.
• YouTube embeds have been updated to support various mobile functions, such as accelerometer and picture-in-picture.
• Imgur gallery URLs have been added in the RegEx for Imgur. There doesn't appear to be any difference from their album URLs... but for some reason, some places on Imgur provide a different URL.

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• Fixed some abstracted image paths for people who use CDNs.
• Added the ability to disable the individual media page, and instead redirect to that media's callback URL.

Because YouTube does not count embedded media in their metrics, this option has been added. By enabling this option, several other things will also be disabled by necessity. Sorting media by comments, reactions and views will automatically be removed. The trending/reaction box on the bottom left of the media thumbnail will also be removed, since it no longer serves a purpose.

An "edit" link will be added to the media tile, since there will no longer be an individual media page to edit the media. A downside of using the redirect option is that users will no longer be able to quick-tag media for the *booru system; only the media owner or moderators will be able to tag media.

BbCode embedding of media popouts will still function as normally... however, the popout comments option will be disabled.

• Fixed the search error which occurs when creating/editing a playlist. As a result, playlists are now appear in search results.
• Fixed the MySQL error when trying to /play a playlist which has no media in it.

• Added a "Submit Media" button to the basic page action structure.
• Slight change to the Likes coding so that it plays nice with other addons.