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Well, if you can see a player (which gets stuck), then you do have a flash plugin. Otherwise you would see some message like "Flash plugin required" instead of the player. To see the flash plugin version, right-click anywhere in the player and in the popup-menu and select the Menu Entry "About Adobe Flash player x...". This redirects you to a page at adobe.com which displays your flash plugin version. The current version should be 1.0.115. If yours is older, update your player.

Also: Have you been able to watch the video on my site successfully (the link i wrote in my last post)?

-Fritz

I just saw your new post, I will take a look now  

Thanks. Still problems and not displaying video, but displaying words.

I am including the entire textarea code for you to see. This is from the Administrator site.

{youtube}6lbvSBNLLoo{/youtube}

Here is what the browser shows on the page:

Welcome to the Frontpage
My first video       
Written by Administrator   
Sunday, 20 January 2008 16:02 
{youtube}6lbvSBNLLoo{/youtube}
Last Updated ( Friday, 25 January 2008 05:03 ) 

Here is the version of the AllVideos I am using:
plugin_jw_allvideos_2.4.zip


Thanks.


======= Here are the previous posts - for history to help me  ===========
I desperately need resources and tutorials how to use AllVideos Plugin.

I am clueless. Please suggest the simplest and most basic way to start using this plug-in.


Ok, step by step for starters

1. Installation and activation

1.1. Download the avreloaded zip (no need to unpack it)
1.2. In the admin backend of your site, select the Menu Extensions->Install/Uninstall
1.3. Click on the Browse button right of the Field named Package File, then select the just downloaded file and hit Open
1.4. Click on Upload File & Install (If there are warnings about language files not installed, ignore them) the last message shown should indicate success however.
1.5. Select the Menu Extensions->Plugin Manager
1.6. In the list of plugins, find the line reading Content - AllVideos Reloaded and click on the small red circle with the white X. It should become a green checkmark.

2. A first remote example

2.1 Create a new article. In the article body, write (or copy&paste from here):


Code:
My first YouTube video embedded :
{youtube}6lbvSBNLLoo{/youtube}
2.2. Save the article and publish it. Go to the frontend of your site and open that article. You should see the video embedded in the article at the location where you typed {youtube}6lbvSBNLLoo{/youtube}.

3. Streaming local content:

3.1 In the backend of your site, open the global configuration, then click on System
3.2 In the Media Settings section, in the Entry named Legal Extension (File Types) add the following types to the existing extensions (separated by comma, all lowercase)

,flv,mp3,swf,avi,divx,m4v,mov,rm

3.3 Click on Save in the toolbar
3.4 Open the Media Manager and open the folder named stories. In there, create 2 new folders named audio and videos.
3.5 Open the newly created videos folder and upload a small .flv video file (.flv is best so start with that) name it firstlocal.flv
3.6 Open the article with the YouTube example and add the following new lines at the end:


Code:
My first local streaming example:
{flv}firstlocal{/flv}
3.7 Save the article and go to the frontend to watch that article. You now should see 2 videos: The YouTube video and your just uploaded video below.

4. Read the fine Manual:

4.1 In your site's backend, select the Menu Extensions->Plugin Manager
4.2 In the list of plugins, find the line reading Content - AllVideos Reloaded and click on the name.
4.3 In the left pane named Details click on the link Documentation. The Manual of the plugin should pop up.

5. Look at the examples on the demo site (The 2 menu entries in Showcase): http://allvideos.fritz-elfert.de/

Simple enough?
If not, just tell me what you didn't understand 

FollowUps please here: http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic ... l.html#bot
-Fritz

« Last Edit: Today at 01:42:36 AM by felfert » 

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« Reply #5 on: Today at 10:17:21 AM »   

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Thanks for the help. I am stuck in :

2.1 Create a new article. In the article body, write (or copy&paste from here):


Code:
My first YouTube video embedded :
{youtube}6lbvSBNLLoo{/youtube}


On my front page, I see the following words and not the video.

My first YouTube video embedded :
{youtube}6lbvSBNLLoo{/youtube}

Please give me more details regarding the making of the article.  Newbie here. But quick to learn.

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Reply #6 on: Today at 12:35:50 PM » 

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Quote from: talleagle on Today at 10:17:21 AM
Thanks for the help. I am stuck in :

2.1 Create a new article. In the article body, write (or copy&paste from here):


Code:
My first YouTube video embedded :
{youtube}6lbvSBNLLoo{/youtube}


On my front page, I see the following words and not the video.

My first YouTube video embedded :
{youtube}6lbvSBNLLoo{/youtube}

Please give me more details regarding the making of the article.  Newbie here. But quick to learn.



Then , most likely your WYSIWYG editor has inserted some additional invisible code into the video tag. Switch your editor to HTML display (or switch it off completely) and verify that there is only the above code in the content. E.g.:

It must read:

{youtube}6lbvSBNLLoo{/youtube}

not something like this:

{youtube}6lbvSBNLLoo{/youtube}

(in other words: it is important, that nothing is in between the curly braces and the word youtube or any other part of the media code.)
Please tell me also, which editor you used.

And again: Please respond there: http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic ... l.html#bot , not in this Thread! (The other thread is the "official" support thread).

-Fritz

plugin_jw_allvideos_2.4.zip
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Oh well, this explains it all!
You don't even use my AllVideos Reloaded plugin. Instead, you are using the old AllVideos plugin (without the Reloaded in its name). That plugin does not work with Joomla 1.5, it only works with Joomla 1.0.x! Please uninstall it, and download the correct plugin here: http://joomlacode.org/gf/download/frsrelease/6555/21110/avreloaded-1.0beta2.zip, install and activate it. After that you should see the video on the frontend. The current version of my plugin (the correct one) is 1.0beta2.

Cheers
-Fritz

Thank you.

I installed and got the following messages
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JInstaller::install: The language file 'de-DE.plg_content_avreloaded.ini' could not be installed because the Administrator language package for 'de-DE' has not been installed or does not exist.

Message
Install Plugin Success
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I made a new article and put in the code you sent.  Here is the resulting source code.

In Administrator:
{youtube}6lbvSBNLLoo{/youtube}

In browser: 

Love the guitar music Fritz. Works. That was brilliant help you provided.

Now I will go back to your initial notes and continue with your instruction for further display features. Thanks.

So glad to see a 1.5 version - I used this plugin extensively in 1.0.

Question:

You mention being able to include this into our extensions. I've written a 1.5 extension that I'd like to use allvideos with. Do you know of any examples of anyone doing this that I can work from?

I have your code:



But need some assistance in how to integrate that into an extension.

Joomlacode down at the moment so I can't download the plugin but will shortly.

Thanks,

When joomlacode is up again, get both my plugin and my module. The module uses the above code to display media in some module position so it actually also is an example of another extension using my plugin.

-Fritz

First thank you for nice work.

I have installed joomla! 1.5 stable and added this extension. I cannot get the code {filtype}filname{/filtype} to work. I wonder if that is because I have installed Joomla! in a subfolder under my www?

It works if I write full "http://www.....filename.mpg", but only in Opera and Firefox, not in Explorer. I tried to move to flv-files, but then nothing works...... 

Any suggestions? Thanks.

B

When you use default settings, the files should be stored in images/stories/videos/.
You can check where it tries to get the files from by viewing the html-source of your site. Look for something like this:



The URL can bee seen here:

{file:'/images/stories/videos/Segeln-20070428-Start.flv'

In this example, the above red path shows the URL, resulting from this tag {flv}Segeln-20070428-Start{/flv} and having every setting at it's default value.

On your site, it should show (if you kept the defaults): /YourSiteSubfolder/images/stories/videos/filename.typ

If you did not kept the defaults:

A: What have you set in Site's Global Settings->System->Path to Image Folder ?
B: What have you set in the plugin's Local video folder ?

Normally, it calculates the location like this: YourSitesRoot/ValueFromA/ValueFromB/filename... unless you change B to start with a slash /. If that's the case it just uses TheValueFromB


Cheers
-Fritz

Edit: That IE issue must be something unrelated. Probably some security setting. MS tightened up security of IE quite a bit recently - especially when running on Vista. Apart from that, I strongly suggest using flv files. Those usually work much better and don't require separate codecs to be available on the browsing machine. Just Adobe's flash plugin is needed.

Fritz,
I followed the steps that were given and the youtube video (my first youtube video) showed up but the Nasa video didn't. I tried it two ways:  {m4v}016-showcase _xplanets.mv4{/m4v} and {m4v}http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/features/hiddenuniverse/files/016-showcase_xplanets.mv4{/m4v}
Should I have put image/stories in the line also? I am giving you a hug all the way from America  I am so thankful to you for your help.  It feels great to keep trying until you get it eh.
Lajeanne

believe, you are very welcome!
However: You cannot use {m4v} on your site, because that is not released yet (only on my site). Please read the following note from my previous post again:


What I meant, was:
You should try watching the video on my site (I have copied it from spitzer and created a page with it in the Showcase/Local content which works nicely here).

So were you able to watch the spitzer video at my site? (Because: If it did not work, then there's something wrong with your browser (or flash plugin, or even your machine in general) which needs to be sorted out before attempting to tweak tags and setting on your site.

Hope, it's now clear
-Fritz

Fritz,
Yes I was able to view the spitzer video on your site So does that mean that I will have to wait until you make m4v  available, or do I have any other options so that I can use it on mine

I have kept the default settings (no changes after installs) and created the videos folder. A is images/stories and B is videos.
But I can't find any code starting with "AllVideos Reloaded Plugin". I must be way out here?

My code says


I have activated both the plugin and the module.

B

Huh?
This html code you posted is not generated by my plugin?! My plugin creates code that starts with the AllVideos Reloaded version in a commant and contains at least one call to the JavaScript function swfobject.embedSWF.

You probably have multiple similar plugins installed?

Fritz, Thankfully I was able to view the video on your site. What should I do next to make it viewable on my site I have tried to use divx as my player, but when I engage the play button
it says : the video can not be found(404 error) it appears to have been removed from the server.
I have downloaded the file numerous time to be opened with either apple quicktime or divx. I guess the syntax is incorrect. HELP

Ok, then there is at least no problem with your flash plugin .
And yes, please wait for the plugin release 1.0beta3. I will release it Monday or Tuesday. There is a tiny difference between the m4v and the mp4-flv you used before. And this tiny difference obviously causes the video to stop.

-Fritz

Thank you. When it become available will I have to remove both module and plugin or just one of them? Your PATIENCE is astounding.

Just the plugin. You can keep the module.
-Fritz

Thanks a lot! I had no similar plugins installed, but files and directories that obviously needed to be deleted..... Now it works excellent in Opera, Firefox and Explorer!

B

I am now in the section:

3. Streaming local content:

3.2 I added the extensions.

3.4 Made the folder video and uploaded ---- I could not follow your instruction to put this folder inside the stories folder. Joomla was not letting me.

3.5 I added the script with my flv name
3.6 Internet Explorer and FireFox asked to install Flash 9 player, which I installed.
    But when you click on the flack sreen's play button, the circles start turning and turning and turning,,,,,,, ... but no movie starts playing.

Please suggest something else that I need to do to see the movie. Perhaps I should use one of your flv files as a sample. Thanks.

My error was that I did not have the videos in  images/stories/videos.

The video is playing.  Thanks a million.

1. Please suggest why I could not make a folder from inside joomla.

2. Please suggest a full length tutorial you may have that goes into joomla explanations for audio and video  ---- exactly the way you wrote to my response. I love the way you explain things. Thanks

Folder creation works like this (see also attached screenshot):

1. Select the folder in which you want to create a subfolder on the left side in the tree view.
2. Type the new folder name in the textfield above the contents of the folder
3. Hit the create folder button

About the tutorial:
It's all about videos, So I'm planning to make a video. In this video i will show and explain all the steps needed to get going. You will be able to watch/download it from my site - It just takes some time ... please be patient

-Fritz

1. Even though I am following your instructions, I cannot get the folder above to go from images to stories, so that I can make the videos folder. Therefore, anytime I make a folder, it is NOT inside stories.

2. Here are the file types that are now working for me, thanks to you.

WORKING:

{youtube}Daisy{/youtube}
{flv}Daisy{/flv}
{mov}Daisy{/mov}
{mp4}Daisy{/mp4}

3. NOT WORKING: (Please help)

{avi}Daisy{/avi}
{m4v}Daisy{/m4v}

4. What other file types can I get to work as well and please include the code line.

Thanks again.

If you click on stories at the left side (look at my screenshot where I painted the red circle with the 1.) the view on the right side should change into stories?!

The types are all listed in the documentation. I'm sorry, but I'm out of time right now - I have a plane to catch - I'm going to fly into vacation ....

Cheers
-Fritz

if anyone has any outstanding questions i will be covering where i can whilst fritz is temporarily unavailable, so please post and i'll get back to you.

rw1

@talleagle

1. In Media Manager, click once on 'Stories' in the left directory panel (which Fritz marked as '1' in the screenshot attached to the post above) , then go to the position Fritz marked as '2' and enter a new folder name, then click 'Create Folder' (which Fritz marked as '3')

2.  In regards to your reports of your avi and m4u not working, please describe how you are trying to implement them. 

3. In regards to what file types can be used by AllVideos Reloaded please see the demo site documentation pages here:

  Local Content

  Remote Content

well after trying for the last 4 hours and reading everything I'm still stumped 

I've read every post and checked for the latest version but no matter what I do I'm stuck with a blank screen ...

The article text is really simple ...

{wmv}vid_2003_small{/wmv}

I wondered if it was a path thing so I tried

{wmvremote}http://www.nlmfc.org/images/stories/videos/vid_2003_small.wmv{/wmvremote}

Everything I do results in the text showing .....

Something fundamental must have gone on but I've never had this problem before ?




http://www.nlmfc.org/index.php?option=c ... &Itemid=50

Found the problem it is the mxcommentbot module so a toss up between video or comments, pity I can't have both !

Anyone got any ideas to save you searching arouind mx comment is found at ...

http://www.visualclinic.fr/forum/func,showcat/catid,14/

Thanks for any help .....

Sorry for being a bit post here then try something else but I reorded the plugins so mxcomment was at the bottom and hry presto ... all seems to be working, I guess I'm just a joomla noob .....