Looking for mods on lecture forum

[theltf]

Hi,

We are a forum that posts long lectures so I'm looking for mods that can embed mp3's, Soundcloud and other media.

Thx so much for this,

Theltb

[glennrocksvb]

Welcome to vBMods.rocks!

These mods might be the ones you are looking for:

https://vbmods.rocks/forum/vbulletin-5-modifications/vbulletin-5-custom-bb-codes/5140-soundcloud-bbcode

https://vbmods.rocks/forum/vbulletin-5-modifications/vbulletin-5-products-and-extensions/13273-embedded-audio-attachments-player

[theltf]

The SoundCloud mod was excellent but the lectures are private and they don't allow for embedding private podcasts.

Do you have any integration for my vb cloud forum to allow embedding of podcasts? I tried simplecast and couldn't get it to work with Vbulletin, if you know of any that would work, that would really help. I like your player, but I'm looking for something with more rewind FF capabilites on 90 minute lectures. Thx

[glennrocksvb]

If the podcasts are private and not publicly accessible, how can any embed work? Can Simplecast embed private podcasts? Doesn't it also need the podcasts to be public? If they do, then I could take a look on how to make the embed work with vB.

[theltf]

I think they allow private podcasts b/c I tried adding the custom BB code and it ended up working in posts, but then I realized the code I insterted was for a particular lecture and that was the only one that would play no matter what I linked in the post (but it DID embed the player in the post!).

[glennrocksvb]

Can you show me a sample Simplecast embed code?

[theltf]

Sure, thanks Glenn

<iframe height="200px" width="100%" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" seamless src="https://player.simplecast.com/f80709bb-4309-49b3-a028-8f8d3049b3e9?dark=false"></iframe>

(it's a song I just recorded and was experimenting with on the embedding)

[theltf]

I'm not a programmer, don't really know what I'm doing, but I tried deleting the part of the code that looked like it was pointing to a specific track ID (in this case f80709bb-4309-49b3-a028-8f8d3049b3e9). But that didn't work.

[lange]

This code works on my test forum

Title: Simplecast
BB Code Tag Name: simplecast

Replacement:
<iframe height="200px" width="100%" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" seamless src="https://player.simplecast.com/{param}?dark=false"></iframe>

Code:
[simplecast]f80709bb-4309-49b3-a028-8f8d3049b3e9[/simplecast]

Use {option}: No
Remove Tag If Empty: Yes
and the rest to No

[glennrocksvb]

You are missing "<" in the opening <iframe> tag or is it just a typo in your post?

[lange]

Yes, i forgot it in my copy-paste. Sorry.

[glennrocksvb]

No worries, I corrected it in case someone copies the code from this post.

[glennrocksvb]

Try this as Replacement code when creating the AnyCast BBCode in AdminCP BBCode Manager:

<iframe height="200px" width="100%" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" seamless src="https://player.simplecast.com/{param}?dark=false"></iframe>

Then to use:
[anycast]f80709bb-4309-49b3-a028-8f8d3049b3e9[/anycast]
Replace anycast with whatever BBCode tag name you want to use.

[glennrocksvb]

Didn't see your post before I posted this. We're basically doing the same thing.

[glennrocksvb]

Oh it was lange who posted the code not theltf

[lange]

My code works ;-)

Thanks to theItf for the idea.

[theltf]

Amazingly this seems to work! THANKS!!!

[glennrocksvb]

I posted this BBCode as its own dedicated topic.

https://vbmods.rocks/forum/vbulletin...plecast-bbcode

Thanks lange and theltf

[theltf]

They have this great feature on SimpleCast called "Recast" where you can take a 30 second snippet of any podcast and share that separately. They provide a different embed code for the snippet. Here's the embed code for a random 30 seconds of the previous clip that I posted:

<iframe src="https://player.simplecast.com/recast/32f59762-31ce-52b9-b34e-dc950277d580" height="600" width="600" title="Flow" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

How would I embed that in a post? Do I have to create a different BB code or can I use the pre-existing SimpleCast code? I see they have it saved to a different directory (they save the snippet to a recast directory
(https://player.simplecast.com/recast/32f59762-31ce-52b9-b34e-dc950277d580)

I tried a bunch of different things with no luck,

Really much thanks.

[glennrocksvb]

Since Recast has a different URL structure, you should create a separate BBCode tag for it. The Replacement code should have the iframe src pointing to the /recast URL path like this:

<iframe src="https://player.simplecast.com/recast/{param}" height="600" width="600" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

[theltf]

Yup, that's it! Wow.