Thanks mersh. At least someone on this board appreciates my input :D.

fmen, to answer your question in exact detail:

1. The admin does not have a decrypted copy of vShare 2.6. I have spoken to them and have received an answer on it. The reason is because vShare is partially based on other projects and was a fork to another project. The decrypted code was stored on a subversion server. Sometime earlier this year or so, they lost the data on the subversion server so the available decrypted source was lost. The admin took their copy of the decrypted 2.6 source and started building 2.7. It will be released decrypted (probably so that a problem like this will never happen again). Because they are using the only copy to create 2.7, there is no available 2.6 source that does not have the changes that is being made for 2.7. So, you will not get a decrypted version from the admin for 2.6.

2. With that being said, what you are wanting is actually not available for the player.inc file (a variable that contains all of the information in it). However, the file that you DO need is NOT encrypted at all. The player.inc file is processed and called from the class.video_player.php file located in your include/classes directory. The variables that are available in the file are the name, the server id, the video ID, and the video's file name. However, you can add more variables that are available to player.inc by simply adding them in the class.

3. The template (view_video.tpl) actually has a different command that pulls its data. It is available via Smarty if you want to get the data for that file.