  About Digital Port
Digital Port brings you professionally, rich multimedia add-ons for your vBulletin forum. Our second release was the Xeon Series vB Mp3 Player, which has attracted many webmasters globally, and we give full free support for all the modifications we release. The Future Modifications
We very rarely bring new commercial products out, but this year will see a major change in commercial modifications. Currently in development and backed by another company we have a product that will give you audio/video/images and text, automatically updating via feeds. Due to the design it uses hardly any bandwidth and no database queries, but uses some of the most advanced flash techniques in the industry. The modification itself can be used on any website, not script dependent but opens a whole new world to the webmaster. Current development tests have proved that we have the technology to design this product to very high standards. For release details it is recommended that you subscribe to our newsletter. In Development: vB PowerStreamer
This is a development component of a new modification for our forthcoming vB PowerStreamer, it is only in an alpha stage at present. This example is not using FLV, which many websites worldwide use, this preview player is actually playing back a H.264 video file in high-definition and not using FLV. It is coded purely in ActionScript 3.0, and requires Adobe Flash Player Plugin 9.0 Update 3.0 or higher to view. It preloads the entire video file, before allowing playback - so make sure once you press the Play button that you wait until it downloads fully (9Mb). The vB PowerStreamer is a huge modification which you see very soon, and is packed with features that you will not find anywhere else. We have setup the player to play a trailer of 'The Great Global Warming Swindle', which is a great documentary if you have not watched it before.
The vbFlashRSS Ticker
 An highly configurable small modification that is very powerful. It can allow viewing of almost any RSS feed, or setup to pull your latest posts to your frontpage, from the backend of your website (vBulletin category specific). This demonstration is set to pull the UK news from the BBC newsfeed RSS, it is very easy to change the rss provider in the php file included. We will be releasing this modification via a commercial download only. Due to be released in late August.
Coming Soon...
 NEW! vBMp3 Pro Players
The popular Xeon Mp3 Player will soon have many new features and a totally new design. We are now designing Mp3 skins to compliment the quality styles available from www.vbskinworks.com . These players are designed to very high specifications and come with tools to allow you to customize them even further using the template PSD files.
vBFLV (XML Driven) Video Player v2.0
This will soon be released as an add-on for vBulletin, it utilizes the same interface (GUI) as the Pro version, but with less functions, since it will be a free modification. Due to it being totally XML driven, it will not have the function to allow members to upload to your website, but the numerous features certainly make up for this. This version is virtually standalone, and requires no product XML file to install, and only 2 template edits. It will only be available from this website, and includes free support.
Features included: - Zoom and Pan video
- Auto-detect connection speed enabling progressive to streaming auto-switch
- Viewing window can be moved
- Unlimited Playlists
- XML based configuration
- Video thumbnails
- File size and Frames per second display
- File extensions can be renamed
- FLV directory setup via XML configuration
Some of the screeshots of the Pro version (release TBA) you can view here. However, the Pro version will have many new features including the ability to upload and convert ‘on-the-fly’ any video format to FLV (this is a high compression method and used by Google and YouTube).
Stay tuned to Digital Port, for tips and tricks not just modifications but other subjects covered in detail.
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