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Quickie conversion of v1.0 beta 1 HTML documentation pages to CHM file.
Has a few quirks (it's beta too    )

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Hi,

When I trying to install AllVideos in Joomla 1.5 I getting error :

Your Extension appears to be written for an older version of Joomla!. You must enable the System - Legacy Plugin in the Plugin Manager if you wish to complete this task.

If I will enable - Legacy Plugin - will it damage my system ( script) ?

Thanks.

You are trying "AllVideos", not "AllVideos Reloaded". "AllVideos" is old and currently only supports Joomla 1.0.x. That's the reason why i made AllVideos Reloaded - native for 1.5, lot of more features but still - mostly - compatible regarding the tags used...

-Fritz

Looks very good . I have added this to the project's doc section on joomlacode.org - hope you don't mind ...

Cheers
-Fritz

Hi 

Downloaded the plugin, but when trying to install I get the following error:



Would appreciate any guidance 

You most likely ran into a general permission/setup problem of Joomla's extension installer. For possible solutions, have a look into this thread: http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,215729.0.html

Cheers
-Fritz

Danke Fritz!

That did the trick 

I got it working (in terms of adding videos to content items). Is there a way to add a video to a module? I tired creating a custom module and pasting the shortcut tags you provided, but it doesn't work there probably because of the HTML enviornment.

Thanks in advance 

Not in a generic way. In Joomla 1.5, content plugins are only called for regular content, not for content within modules. That's why i have written mod_avreloaded which invokes the plugin explicitly via a special event. Using mod_avreloaded is currently the only way to get media displayed at some module position.

Perhaps if you tell me more about what you want to achieve (an example URL probably), I can try and might come up with a solution....

-Fritz

Basically I want to display a YouTube video in a module in the right column of the main page... 

Thats an easy one

Just get mod_avreloaded, Either use the AllVideos Reloaded module directly or create an instance by clicking New and then based on AllVideos reloaded. Publish it in the "right" position.

In the entry "Media code", then put something like this:

{youtube width="183" height="150"}6lbvSBNLLoo{/youtube}

Note: Use the width and height attributes which constrain the size of the youtube player to your right column's width.

Cheers
-Fritz

Edit:
Also: mod_avreloaded relies on the AllVideos Reloaded plugin being installed and enabled.

Thanks a million Fritz! A great addition to Joomla and I am confident many other community members feel the same way 

I didn't have any problems thus far, but I will make sure to report it to assist in drive towards the final release.

Kudos!

I'll apologize in advance, as my complete Newbie-ness will be showing like a spotlight.  As I slow get my mind to try to comprehend things based on content, and not end-result HTML, I am trying to figure out the best way to handle the media files for my website.  That being said, what I am trying to do is have a spot on my Joomla 1.5 site where people can stream and/or download .MP3s that I create. Allvideos Reloaded sounds perfect for doing this.  Here is my question:

I want to make it where the people doing the recordings, can simply upload the new .mp3 file to the website in a particular folder. I then will somehow need to script or automate the creation of the links to automatically add your tags to each file in a particular directory. I was going to use the "list-content" feature, but I not sure what the best way to do this is. Maybe I am way off track, but does anyone have any suggestions on how I can use Allvideos Reloaded to do this?

Thanks!

What a marvelous plug in! a real enhancement of my joomla 1.5 website. Only one layouting question. When i ad a video to an article with {flv}video{/flv| how can i get text to wrap around it?

Like with the alignment tag in a picture.

I know it's probably very basic but i don't know how to.

Two ways:
1. Globally: Use CSS in your template, targeted at the container class (default: allvideos, but changeable in the params)
2. Locally: Simply wrap the {flv}video{/flv} into a container (e.g. a div) and align that one.

Currently, this plugin just acts as an embedded player. It does not contain any management functionality for uploading or generating tags or playlists automatically. This lies in the nature of a plugin: A plugin only manipulates code, previously entered in the page content. The next higher level is a module which places content at a specific position. What you are looking for is a component. A component supporting this plugin is planned for the future, but it will take quite some time. Therefore, I'm afraid, AllVideos Reloaded is not what you are looking for.

Cheers
-Fritz

It was early in the morning and I was thrilled to hear the stable release of joomla 1.5 is out. Then i figured out that what you say is te easy way to do it.

Yesterday, I tested out SFWObject 2 and it turned out to be great! No incompatibilities with mootols, much simpler to call and the best: Suddenly, all IE7 related hickups are magically gone! Even the ondomready event workaround isn't needed anymore. So the next release will use SWFObject 2.0 and revert to Jeroen's unpatched original player.

Thank you very much for that hint!
-Fritz

Kwel.
AVR just keeps getting better.

Downloaded the plugin --> Published the plugin --> entered this "{metacafe}306623{/metacafe}" in my article and it only shows the code, but not the movie.

Using Joomla 1.5 and avreloaded 1.0 beta1.

Can anyone explain what I'm doing wrong? Oh and the module works as it should btw, nice job

If the module works, then the plugin works too, because the module uses the plugin.

Did you enter the tag in a WYSIWYG editor? If yes, switch to plain html mode and verify that you (or the editor) did not add some text-attibutes which you normally don't see:

E.g: In WYSIWYG, you see:

  {metacafe}306623{/metacafe},

but in reality, there's something like this:

  {metacafe}306623{/metacafe}


Oh, and BTW, The metacafe tag doesnt use the plain number alone, it uses 1234567/what_ever_name

Hope this helps.
-Fritz

{metacafe}306623{/metacafe}

That's the exact html code im getting.

Cleared all the extra code, and this is the final product "{metacafe}306623{/metacafe}"

After I save, I get a blank bit where the video should be.

Edit: right, removing the extra html code, and getting the correct name did the trick.

Thanks for the support

Man, I just hacked the original Allvideos to do just that! (not very eloquently though) This rewrite looks excellent, problem is we're not updating to 1.5 for a long time...

This definitely won't work on a non-1.5 install right?

I'm interested in the code allowing parameter overriding (like width and height), can you point me to whereabouts that is so I can attempt to get it working on the original?

Thanks

It definitively won't work on 1.0.x.

Regarding the code allowing parameter overriding:
The code is publicly available both as download as well as for browsing and checkout via SVN.
However, I wouldn't even attempt to integrate the code into the old plugin, since it involves too many changes not only in the code but also in the data definitions (the arrays, declaring the individual embedding snippets).
If you absolutely need it for 1.0.x, i think, a much simpler approach would be a backport of my new plugin to 1.0.x. Contact me via PM if you like to join the project and try a backport. Also please note: I'll be on vacation for 3 weeks starting next week so i will read mail and forums only occasionally.

-Fritz

Apparently, you are talking about the AllVideos Reloaded Module, not about the AllVideos Reloaded Plugin. So yes, you need the AllVideos Reloaded Plugin installed and enabled as well (as stated on the homepage here: http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/allvideos15/). Furthermore, your tag is wrong, What you want is the {mp4remote} tag. Documentation about all tags is included in the AllVideos Reloaded Plugin. (Go to the plugin's parameter page in your backend and click on the Link Documentation near the plugin description.)

Cheers
-Fritz

Oh, and as stated on the homepage as well, the main discussion and support thread for AVR is here:
http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,245658.0.html. Please post any followups there.




Fritz, I followed your directive to download both plugin and module for allvideos reloaded. I can see the screen , but I am to engage or start the video. I have set the parameters as follows
header: Showcase: THE X-Planets Media code: {mp4remote}016-showcase_xplanets{/mp4remote}
Footer:  Courtesy of NASA
Link: //www.spitzer.caltech.edu/features/hiddenuniverse/index.shtml

What should I do to make it work? BTW Appletime is used for the video 

From the Documentation (on page 3 at the bottom):


So you need the full URL instead of just the filename. In your case, it would be:

{mp4remote}http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/features/hiddenuniverse/files/016-showcase_xplanets.m4v{/mp4remote}

Also, since that video is quite large and you wanted it to appear in a popup, you either must modify the size of the popup window (in the module's parameter page) to match the player's size or reduce the player's size to fit a smaller window. The player size can be modified by adding attributes to the player tag, e.g:

{mp4remote width="320" height="240"}http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/features/hiddenuniverse/files/016-showcase_xplanets.m4v{/mp4remote}

When finished you then usually end up having the popup window's size equally to the player's  size.

Also: The link is meant to be the displayed clickable text on your page so unless you want to be this rater long string you should enter something like Click here to open Video Popup

Cheers
-Fritz

Edit:
If you don't want Apple Quicktime to be necessary for watching this video (only flash), you can replace mp4remote by  mp4-flvremote. The mp4-flvremote tag is currently undocumented, because it does not work reliably with all MP4 media, but in case of this movie, I just tested it here on my development site and it plays nicely in JW Media player.

Hello again, If I am understanding correctly, I have to change the width and height within the media tag? Also I changed to {mp4-flvremote}, but when I click on the play button it starts but quickly stops. Can I put Jw media player in my site for viewing these videos, if so where would I retrieve it from and how would I set it up in Joomla . I am extremely excited about this plug-in.

If the video starts playing and then stops, most likely either your local connection bandwidth is overloaded or the server is overloaded. Since it plays fine here, I think its your local connection. What you can try, is the following: Click Play and immediately Pause again, then wait until it downloads the video to your local computer. You can see that as the gray part of the progressbar is extending to the right. When it has reached the end, click play again and it should play fine.

Regarding the size:
You don't need to. But since you use the built in player now, the default size of the player is 400x320 which does not match the aspect ratio of the video (it's 640x360) and leads to those ugly black bars at the top and bottom. So if you like, change it to either 640x380 (the popup window as well) or if you feel that this is too large, perhaps to 320x200. So just keep the aspect ratio...
If you wonder why there's a difference of 20 pixels in the height specification: It's the height of the control bar...

Cheers
-Fritz

Edit: Forgot to answer your last question:
The JW media player is already on your site!    (it is included in the AllVideos Reloaded plugin).
Just read page 2 (Licence) of the documentation. That player is free for noncommercial use and for commercial use, the author sells licences a reasonable price (starting with 15€ for a single site up to a max. of 100€ for an unlimited worldwide licence). The link to his site is http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_Media_Player .... bat that's also in the doc on page 2

Cheers
-Fritz

Fritz,
I pressed play then immediately pressed pause, I proceeded to download from the caltech site but stopped and will not allow me to restart the player. I am using a local machine and have deleted some zip files that I did not need. I don't know where to go from here

What do you mean with "but stopped"? Did the download stop or did it work and then the playing stopped again?
What browser are you using, on what system, and what is the version of your flash plugin?
Also: Can you give me an URL of your site so i can have a look? If you don't like to publish that URL, just send me a PM.

-Fritz

Edit:
Since this video is an excellent example of properly encoding Mpeg4 with H.264, i have downloaded it and added it to the examples on my demo site. Have a look here: http://allvideos.fritz-elfert.de/local-content.html?start=4
Note: On my demo site, this video uses another tag mv4 which will be available in the next release of my plugin. Apart from that it is exactly same. So if this stops playing in your browser as well, then there's something wrong with either your browser and/or flash plugin.

My apologies Fritz for not being clear. What I meant was that after I pressed play and immediately pressed pause the application seemed to be downloading the information, but the application stopped. I was unable to engage the play button to start it up again. I tried to change the media tags to a couple of different players such as divx and realplayer to no avail. My browser is firefox and my system is vista. I don't  have a flash plug-in. Can you suggest one. I hope my Newbieness is not to much of a bother. I am determined to master Joomla and everything that comes with it.  I am creating my site on my local machine and have not yet published it, because I have not completed it thus far. I don't know how to send it to you without it being published. Thank you again for your time.


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