Better Download Video Mod

[Foxxy]

Unfortunately, I had to remove the original files from the video folder. They were taking up too much room. I backed them all up on my computer in case I ever wanted to use them, but when it started taking up more than 100GB of space on my hard drive, I ended up having to remove them from there as well.

Oh well.

[grynmoors]

Too bad you couldn't have burned them onto a cd/dvd or something. Dang.

[Foxxy]

I thought about it at the time, but since it was over 100GB, it would have taken a decent stack of CDs, and it would keep growing every week.

I guess if people were paying a 0.25 or 0.50 per download it might be worth it, but for a free site it's not really worth the trouble. If I ever get to that point, I'll just have to reconvert the flv files into mpg, and have someone write a custom download script. That's more trouble, but it would give me more consistency anyway. Those other files ranged from flv to mov to wmv to whatever. It was really kind of junky, and I think the ones that had used another site for the upload source didn't even appear there at all.

[pocholo]

What about allow downloads only for paid members?

You can program the code in any way with the UID and Pack_id data from the database?

[bigoboy]

I get USER NOT FOUND when the download icon is clicked on

Not sure why this is?
Any help would be greatfull

[bigoboy]

[img]{$baseurl}/templates/images/download.png[/img]Download

Figured that would work but it didnt

Got it

{if $allow_download == 1 && $video_info.vtype eq 0}
{if $smarty.session.UID ne ""}
[img]{$baseurl}/templates/images/download.png[/img]Download
{else}
[img]{$baseurl}/templates/images/download.png[/img]Download
{/if}
{/if}