General support topic for Aeva Media (Latest release: July 28, 2010)

[Rockermann]

@Rockermann> 2.0... SMG 2? That's old news now And yeah I know, it's like it was released yesterday, lol... I just can't help updating it. (Consider Aeva Media 1.0 as SMG 3.0.)

Actually, I was talking about SMF 2.x.. I thought you were recommending that I upgrade the form to 2.0 to elimnate some of my issues. Did I misunderstand?

[Nao 尚]

@Kindred> Fingers crossed!!! ;-D

@Rockermann> Gone through your posts... Editing your index.template.php to add the tab entry manually shouldn't take more than 10 minutes really, even for a n00b... No need to update to SMF1 if you don't want to (Even though SMF2 definitely is more stable than SMF1 IMHO...)

[Nao 尚]

Ah, there were more approved messages before mine...

@petesky> That's an excellent suggestion, which I'll immediately NOT implement! I don't want you to have nightmares

@Flavious> The only way to play with the CPU on Aeva is to go to the Auto-embed admin area and enable/disable the Javascript setting. I'd strongly recommend to enable the Javascript stuff, but I don't know, maybe it doesn't work well on your site.

@tfs> It's very interesting that I 'fixed' exactly that in rev 167! Although it's not for the same reason (I wanted to save space in the button bar by eliminating everything related to leaving comments), but it definitely should work better for your users. (Although if they can mistake a RSS icon with "Messages" (not "Message") next to it, maybe they don't deserve a fix )

[Bob Perry of Web Presence Consulting]

@bperry> What previous version exactly? I posted one in another topic...

Nao, previous version issue resolved, thanks... have Beta 2 installed now and so far have only one urgent issue, I'm getting a green screen on embedded Windows Media Video files and it won't play the video, the audio portion of the .wmv plays fine but there is some kind of major problem with videos, have only checked a couple utube embeds so far but they seem fine.

[Arantor]

@petesky> That's an excellent suggestion, which I'll immediately NOT implement! I don't want you to have nightmares

*cough* Perhaps...

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$query = $smcFunc['db_query']('', '
  SELECT COUNT(id_install)
  FROM {db_prefix}log_packages
  WHERE package_id = {string:id}
    AND time_installed > 0',
  array(
    'id' => 'Nao:Aeva',
  )
);

list($installed_times) = $smcFunc['db_fetch_row']($query);

$query = $smcFunc['db_query']('', '
  SELECT COUNT(id_install)
  FROM {db_prefix}log_packages
  WHERE package_id = {string:id}
    AND time_removed > 0',
  array(
    'id' => 'Nao:Aeva',
  )
);

list($removed_times) = $smcFunc['db_fetch_row']($query);

[Bob Perry of Web Presence Consulting]

@bperry> What previous version exactly? I posted one in another topic...

Nao, previous version issue resolved, thanks... have Beta 2 installed now and so far have only one urgent issue, I'm getting a green screen on embedded Windows Media Video files and it won't play the video, the audio portion of the .wmv plays fine but there is some kind of major problem with videos, have only checked a couple utube embeds so far but they seem fine.

Never mind nao, found the problem, during the install I had to do a manual edit of Sources/Load.php on the second replace edit and it was missing a comma but I didn't find it till it started a ruckus in a different mod and threw out some pretty detailed errors in the SMF error log ... man it's amazing what one missing comma will do, the system was acting really weird until I fixed that comma, everything is cool now though I hope...

[leftezi]

Report from the 1.0 beta 2 version in Greek Utf8 (SMF 2.0 RC2):

• Fixed: The welcome message is in Greek now
  
• Fixed: I can edit the album name now without the "The database value you're trying to insert does not exist: owner_id" error.

Thanks. 

[tfs]

@tfs> It's very interesting that I 'fixed' exactly that in rev 167! Although it's not for the same reason (I wanted to save space in the button bar by eliminating everything related to leaving comments), but it definitely should work better for your users. (Although if they can mistake a RSS icon with "Messages" (not "Message") next to it, maybe they don't deserve a fix )

The vast majority of my users haven't the slightest idea what a RSS icon looks like or what it's for.  They just see the word "Comment" and they click on it.  Then they don't recognize where it takes them and they worry that they've broken something.

Right now it looks like this...

*Comments
+Comment

I don't think the RSS feed even needs to say Comments if it's at the bottom of the page like that.  There's nothing else to subscribe to within a single gallery item.

I'd vote for a more descriptive thing, something like...

*Subscribe to Comments
+Add a Comment

[Stigmartyr]

Hi Nao - thanks for the cool mod!  I wanted to ask though, how do we change what is printed in the Breadcrumb?  I'm going to be using this on a car site and it would make more sense that it said 'Mustang Media' rather than Aeva Media which has no relevance to the content.

Can you direct me ? 

[Stigmartyr]

I tried to edit: Themes/default/languages/Modifications.English.php and was unable to change the printed title of Aeva Media to something more accurate of the media within.  The menu button will remain media, I just want the title/header to change.

Im using SMF 2.0 RC2 as well...  Where is the edit exactly? 

[Arantor]

If it's listed in that file, just editing the file isn't enough, you'd also have to clear the file cache.

[Stigmartyr]

If it's listed in that file, just editing the file isn't enough, you'd also have to clear the file cache.

Thanks, I should have mentioned that I also did delete Modifications.English.php~ after uploading my edits.  But I did not delete the files from /cache.  After I did that it worked!  Still getting used to SMF 2, but I have been very excited to finally break ground on it.

Great mods, great forums, I couldn't be happier with this community.  Thank you.

[Nao 尚]

You may NOT change 'Aeva Media' to something else.

Beta 3 will fix your problem by using 'Media' instead. Then you can change the Modifications.english.php file to have something else. But you may not change anything that says 'Aeva' to say something else. It's not allowed.
If you need to have your name show up right now, you can simply install the latest SVN revision. Check the official AM topic for instructions.

[Stigmartyr]

You may NOT change 'Aeva Media' to something else.

Beta 3 will fix your problem by using 'Media' instead. Then you can change the Modifications.english.php file to have something else. But you may not change anything that says 'Aeva' to say something else. It's not allowed.
If you need to have your name show up right now, you can simply install the latest SVN revision. Check the official AM topic for instructions.

Thanks Nao.  I look forward to the update, then.  Not trying to step all over your copyright, its just that titling the gallery Aeva Media doesn't reflect the content for a user or a bot indexing the site.

Also just a suggesting but it would be good if your copyright was printed under the 'powered by' copyrights as well to make it flow with the themes.

[Nao 尚]

Thanks Nao.  I look forward to the update, then.  Not trying to step all over your copyright, its just that titling the gallery Aeva Media doesn't reflect the content for a user or a bot indexing the site.

I do understand. This was discussed in another topic just yesterday:
http://aeva.noisen.com/support/5571/how-to-change-the-page-name-from-aeva-media/

As I said over there, I didn't even notice the homepage said 'Aeva Media' in the headers, and the page title had something as silly as 'Albums' in its page title (instead of simply 'Home'). I fixed it all in rev 167.
I don't mind having users changing the 'Media' tab to something else (as it's not the name of the mod). Of course they still need to change it every time they update... Which is why I tried to have the widest possible meaning for the tab. 'Gallery' wasn't good enough, because many times you won't be using the gallery system as an actual gallery. Especially if you fill it only with audio files for instance... That's not a gallery

Also just a suggesting but it would be good if your copyright was printed under the 'powered by' copyrights as well to make it flow with the themes.

I'm doing it on video embeds inside the forum. But I'm not willing to do it in the media area. It's a complete software in its own, it lives inside its box, so it's only natural that the copyright is inside the box, rather than with the rest. Dragooon did it in SMF Media Gallery 1.0, and I see no reason to change this. Other complex software such as portals do the same anyway.

[SEEN]

thanks nao for the gread mod.

the video player embed works fine, but I notice that when i tried to zoom, there's a 'loading' label and then do nothing. I suppose it should zoom in or something.

I click on comments or reports, the 'loading' label appears and does nothing.

what's happening? thanks

please visit my site: http://gamingessence.net/index.php?action=media

[Stigmartyr]

Hi Nao - thanks for the cool mod!  I wanted to ask though, how do we change what is printed in the Breadcrumb?  I'm going to be using this on a car site and it would make more sense that it said 'Mustang Media' rather than Aeva Media which has no relevance to the content.

Can you direct me ? 

To answer my own question, it's here: http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=358343.msg2464426#msg2464426

[Stigmartyr]

Gotcha - that makes sense, then.  I also agree that Gallery is a web 1.0 term that needs to go.  Media is more inclusive.

[saks]

I have finished translate of gallery into Russian. But I can't be registered on gallery site. what shall I do? (The letter for activation performance doesn't come. Login - Saks and saks2008)

[Nao 尚]

@bperry> Missing or extra commas made me lose sleep many times over. I remember the worst case: a script in Javascript refused to work under Internet Explorer. After so many hours, days of debugging, I think Dragooon found the culprit: there was an extra "," at the end of an object declaration, in the pure tradition of PHP array declarations (where it's not only allowed -- it's encouraged.) All browsers accept the extra comma without complaining. But Internet Explorer does not complain -- it just doesn't work at all. Thanks, Microsoft!!

@tfs> Ah... My bad. I was using the French version, and didn't remember the English version said 'Comments' instead of 'Messages'. The issue with 'Comment' is indeed that the word is both a verb and a noun, so using 'Comments' may be misleading if you don't pay attention to the change. I hope that my changes will be enough to direct your users to the actual Quick Reply session. (The upcoming user control panel, which I have yet to start work on because it's a big part, should allow users to open the Quick Reply box by default, like in SMF.)

@SEEN> This is very odd... I don't see any reason for this happening. I was actually very happy how I managed to show a video with Highslide, lol. This must be an incompatibility with some other mod that uses Javascript as well... Although I can't find anything in my error log.

@saks> On smf-media.com you mean?