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Re: DenVideo Q&A

Post by poorvida » Thu Sep 04, 2008 3:14 am

Is there any way to pass flashvars along?

I have been trying to find a way to embed a mp3 player in my content that i can control the playlist for each instance of the player.

I am trying to use the flash (swf) FLAM mp3 player, but i need to pass along this info:

<embed src="http://poorvida.com/FLAM/flam-player.swf"
flashVars="fp_root_url=http://poorvida.com/FLAM/&ovr_color=0x7 ... _shuffle=0"
menu=false
quality=best
wmode=transparent
bgcolor=#383838
width="300"
height="315"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
</embed>

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Re: DenVideo Q&A

Post by 3dentech » Thu Sep 04, 2008 5:35 am

poorvida wrote:Is there any way to pass flashvars along?

I have been trying to find a way to embed a mp3 player in my content that i can control the playlist for each instance of the player.

I am trying to use the flash (swf) FLAM mp3 player, but i need to pass along this info:

<embed src="http://poorvida.com/FLAM/flam-player.swf"
flashVars="fp_root_url=http://poorvida.com/FLAM/&ovr_color=0x7 ... _shuffle=0"
menu=false
quality=best
wmode=transparent
bgcolor=#383838
width="300"
height="315"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
</embed>
if you install denvideo all you will need to do is write {denvideo UrlOfTheMusic}
den video dont have play list suport yet,
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Re: DenVideo Q&A

Post by poorvida » Thu Sep 04, 2008 7:38 am

I know denvideo doesnt support playlists, but I have a flash player that does.

check out the FLAM player.
http://www.flamplayer.com/
http://www.flamplayer.com/flamplayer_de ... /demo.html

it is installed on my server. I can embed the flash anywhere, and by passing along flashVars, I can control which playlist gets loaded, the color scheme, size, etc.

I am just wondering if it would be possible to get denvideo to pass along the flashVars

the way FLAM works is this swf is embedded:
http://poorvida.com/FLAM/flam-player.swf

and the flashvars that are called are passed in the URL and control the rest like:
flashVars="fp_root_url=http://poorvida.com/FLAM/&ovr_color=0x7 ... _shuffle=0"


so im thinking there might be a way to pass along the flashVars like
{denvideo http://poorvida.com/FLAM/flam-player.swf 300 315 ovr_color=0x75855C ovr_langage=en ovr_playlist=mc+astro}

or simplified
{denvideo http://poorvida.com/FLAM/flam-player.swf 300 315 0x75855C en mc+astro}

see what im getting at?

if size, and autoplay can be passed along in {denvideo URL width height}

then how can it be changed to pass along these other variables?


I dont know the first thing about creating modules or components for CMS, but i think this should be possible with the architecture already in denvideo
Last edited by poorvida on Thu Sep 04, 2008 8:00 am, edited 2 times in total.

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Re: DenVideo Q&A

Post by poorvida » Thu Sep 04, 2008 7:53 am

OK so i dug around in the code for denvideo, and it seems entirely possible to me.

I also found this in the readme, talking about JW player:
Note to 3.xx users: a LOT has changed in the 4.0 release, including changes to flashvars!

I dont know enough about PHP to know for sure, but look at this.

This determines what parameters were typed in, so that it knows what to assign, and what to leave default

// Regular Expression
$regex = '/\{denvideo(.*?)}/i';
$total = preg_match_all( $regex, $row->text, $matches );
if ( !$total ){
return false;
}

// PARAMs
$plgParams =& getDenVideoParams();

// Default
$w = (int)$plgParams->get('width', 400);
$h = (int)$plgParams->get('height', 0 );
$ast = (int)$plgParams->get('autostart', 0 );

// Loop
for( $x=0; $x < $total; $x++ ){
// General Params
$parts = explode( ' ', trim($matches[1][$x]) );

// Default Vaues
$width = $w;
$height = ($h > 0)? $h : ($width * 0.7);
$autostart = $ast;

// Params
$pcount = count($parts);

/**Width*/
if($pcount > 1){
($parts[1] > 0) // if true
&& $width = (int)$parts[1];
$height = $width * 0.7;

/**Height*/
if($pcount > 2){
($parts[2] > 0) // if true
&& ($height = (int)$parts[2]);
($parts[1] > 0) // if false
|| $width = $height * 1.3;

/**autoStart*/
if($pcount > 3){
$autostart = (boolean)$parts[3];
}
}
}

// Video Display
$video = $parts[0];
$video = (strpos($video, 'http://')!==false)?
$video:
$plgParams->get('path_img').$video;

// Put Video inside the content
$replace = showDenVideo( $video, $width, $height, $autostart );
$replace = '<span id="denvideo_'. $x .'" class="denvideo" style="position:relative">'
. $replace
. '<a href="http://www.3den.org/" class="small"
style="display:none; position:absolute; top:1px; left: 1px">Powered by 3DEN</a>'
. '</span>' ;
$row->text = str_replace( $matches[0][$x], $replace, $row->text );
}
return true;
}


This is the part that kicks off the program if the file to be embedded is a swf:


/* Flash .SWF
*****************************************************/
case '.swf':
$replace = addMediaSWF($video, $width, $height);
break;



it seems to me that the loop could be made to look for a few more spots that can hold parameters, and the swf replace could be made to look for them, and pass them along.

OR MAYBE just modify it to hold one extra parameter, and pass the entire flashVars string along in it, like:

{denvideo URLto.swf 300 315 1 flashVars="fp_root_url=http://poorvida.com/FLAM/&ovr_color=0x7 ... _shuffle=0"}


am i wrong?



what does the optional param string $p do?

* Add SWF media
*
* @return embed tag
* @param string $video url
* @param string $width [optional]
* @param string $height [optional]
* @param string $p [optional]

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Re: DenVideo Q&A

Post by poorvida » Thu Sep 04, 2008 8:34 am

this should hard code what I want to do.... however, that defeats the point of being able to load different playlists on different pages:

$replace = '<object class="denvideo" style="'.$width . $height.'"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="'.$play.'" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shoc ... n=6,0,29,0" style="'.$width . $height.'" wmode="transparent" />'.
'<param name="movie" value="'.$play.'" />'.
'<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />'.
'<param name="allowfullscreen" value="1" />'.
'<param name="flashVarsvalue" value="fp_root_url=http://poorvida.com/FLAM/&ovr_color=0x7 ... _shuffle=0" />'.
'<param name="menu" value="false" />'.
'<param name="quality" value="best" />'.
'<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />'.
'<param name="bgcolor" value="#383838" />'.
'<embed class="denvideo" style="'.$width . $height.'"
src="'.$play.'" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
allowfullscreen="1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>'.
'</object>';

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Re: DenVideo Q&A

Post by dayanamay » Thu Sep 04, 2008 8:43 pm

Hi. I just uploaded denvideo but I don't know how to enable the pluggin. Is it in the module manager? I don't see it in that list?
thank you

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Re: DenVideo Q&A

Post by barryhb » Sun Sep 14, 2008 8:09 am

Great plugin. I want to play a .flv file on my site, and it seems to work well using 3k flv player, however doesn't have the full frame feature of JWPlayer. Therefore, I tried using the JWPlayer(a nicer interface, IMHO)

However, when I use the JWPlayer, the aspect ratio of my movie is way out of wack. The video plays an extremely enlarged and horizontally squished version. I see just the center of the video and like I mentioned, it is squished. Any thoughts? I tried manually overriding the default settings but that did not have any effect (which makes sense).

Please help!

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Re: DenVideo Q&A

Post by 3dentech » Fri Sep 19, 2008 1:45 am

dayanamay wrote:Hi. I just uploaded denvideo but I don't know how to enable the pluggin. Is it in the module manager? I don't see it in that list?
thank you
is in plugin manager
on the adiministrator area
http://3den.org
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Re: DenVideo Q&A

Post by 3dentech » Fri Sep 19, 2008 3:47 am

barryhb wrote:Great plugin. I want to play a .flv file on my site, and it seems to work well using 3k flv player, however doesn't have the full frame feature of JWPlayer. Therefore, I tried using the JWPlayer(a nicer interface, IMHO)

However, when I use the JWPlayer, the aspect ratio of my movie is way out of wack. The video plays an extremely enlarged and horizontally squished version. I see just the center of the video and like I mentioned, it is squished. Any thoughts? I tried manually overriding the default settings but that did not have any effect (which makes sense).

Please help!
can you send me a link to you site? so i can check this bug,
It seams to be a problem of JWPlayer so you can also contact they
http://3den.org
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Re: DenVideo Q&A

Post by 3dentech » Fri Sep 19, 2008 4:10 am

poorvida wrote:OK so i dug around in the code for denvideo, and it seems entirely possible to me.

I also found this in the readme, talking about JW player:
Note to 3.xx users: a LOT has changed in the 4.0 release, including changes to flashvars!

I dont know enough about PHP to know for sure, but look at this.

This determines what parameters were typed in, so that it knows what to assign, and what to leave default

// Regular Expression
$regex = '/\{denvideo(.*?)}/i';
$total = preg_match_all( $regex, $row->text, $matches );
if ( !$total ){
return false;
}

// PARAMs
$plgParams =& getDenVideoParams();

// Default
$w = (int)$plgParams->get('width', 400);
$h = (int)$plgParams->get('height', 0 );
$ast = (int)$plgParams->get('autostart', 0 );

// Loop
for( $x=0; $x < $total; $x++ ){
// General Params
$parts = explode( ' ', trim($matches[1][$x]) );

// Default Vaues
$width = $w;
$height = ($h > 0)? $h : ($width * 0.7);
$autostart = $ast;

// Params
$pcount = count($parts);

/**Width*/
if($pcount > 1){
($parts[1] > 0) // if true
&& $width = (int)$parts[1];
$height = $width * 0.7;

/**Height*/
if($pcount > 2){
($parts[2] > 0) // if true
&& ($height = (int)$parts[2]);
($parts[1] > 0) // if false
|| $width = $height * 1.3;

/**autoStart*/
if($pcount > 3){
$autostart = (boolean)$parts[3];
}
}
}

// Video Display
$video = $parts[0];
$video = (strpos($video, 'http://')!==false)?
$video:
$plgParams->get('path_img').$video;

// Put Video inside the content
$replace = showDenVideo( $video, $width, $height, $autostart );
$replace = '<span id="denvideo_'. $x .'" class="denvideo" style="position:relative">'
. $replace
. '<a href="http://www.3den.org/" class="small"
style="display:none; position:absolute; top:1px; left: 1px">Powered by 3DEN</a>'
. '</span>' ;
$row->text = str_replace( $matches[0][$x], $replace, $row->text );
}
return true;
}


This is the part that kicks off the program if the file to be embedded is a swf:


/* Flash .SWF
*****************************************************/
case '.swf':
$replace = addMediaSWF($video, $width, $height);
break;



it seems to me that the loop could be made to look for a few more spots that can hold parameters, and the swf replace could be made to look for them, and pass them along.

OR MAYBE just modify it to hold one extra parameter, and pass the entire flashVars string along in it, like:

{denvideo URLto.swf 300 315 1 flashVars="fp_root_url=http://poorvida.com/FLAM/&ovr_color=0x7 ... _shuffle=0"}


am i wrong?



what does the optional param string $p do?

* Add SWF media
*
* @return embed tag
* @param string $video url
* @param string $width [optional]
* @param string $height [optional]
* @param string $p [optional]
Hello friend,
You are absolutily right!
We can add more params as you as say, the only reason why we dont do it is because it can make the plugin harder to use, not all user have as mutch knowledge as you and for then flashVars="fp_root_url=http://poorvida.com/FLAM/&ovr_color=0x7 ... _shuffle=0" this is somethig very crazy,

As I saw you already undestend how denvideo works, and can also add your FLAM player to denVideo as you saw the display loop can show different players for the same format.
What you need to do is create a function showPlaylis(... );

As much playlists canme in XML you can create a
/** on the show begins loop **/
// playlist
case '.xml':
showPlaylis(... );// call your function
break;


JW also can use playlist you can thake a look at their sites
http://3den.org
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Re: DenVideo Q&A

Post by 3dentech » Fri Sep 19, 2008 4:16 am

poorvida wrote:this should hard code what I want to do.... however, that defeats the point of being able to load different playlists on different pages:

$replace = '<object class="denvideo" style="'.$width . $height.'"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="'.$play.'" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shoc ... n=6,0,29,0" style="'.$width . $height.'" wmode="transparent" />'.
'<param name="movie" value="'.$play.'" />'.
'<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />'.
'<param name="allowfullscreen" value="1" />'.
'<param name="flashVarsvalue" value="fp_root_url=http://poorvida.com/FLAM/&ovr_color=0x7 ... _shuffle=0" />'.
'<param name="menu" value="false" />'.
'<param name="quality" value="best" />'.
'<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />'.
'<param name="bgcolor" value="#383838" />'.
'<embed class="denvideo" style="'.$width . $height.'"
src="'.$play.'" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
allowfullscreen="1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>'.
'</object>';
you dont need to hack the core functions is easyer and safer to creat a new function for that there is a loot o sample for that on the code take a look at the SWF functions im am sure you can find out how to use it, :D
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Re: DenVideo Q&A

Post by barryhb » Fri Sep 19, 2008 4:30 am

3dentech wrote:
barryhb wrote:Great plugin. I want to play a .flv file on my site, and it seems to work well using 3k flv player, however doesn't have the full frame feature of JWPlayer. Therefore, I tried using the JWPlayer(a nicer interface, IMHO)

However, when I use the JWPlayer, the aspect ratio of my movie is way out of wack. The video plays an extremely enlarged and horizontally squished version. I see just the center of the video and like I mentioned, it is squished. Any thoughts? I tried manually overriding the default settings but that did not have any effect (which makes sense).

Please help!
can you send me a link to you site? so i can check this bug,
It seams to be a problem of JWPlayer so you can also contact they

Here is the link to the video page: http://888happy35.com/research/def-research-video.html

Tell me what you think. Any suggestions are helpful :)

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Re: DenVideo Q&A

Post by 3dentech » Fri Sep 19, 2008 5:08 am

barryhb wrote:
3dentech wrote:
barryhb wrote:Great plugin. I want to play a .flv file on my site, and it seems to work well using 3k flv player, however doesn't have the full frame feature of JWPlayer. Therefore, I tried using the JWPlayer(a nicer interface, IMHO)

However, when I use the JWPlayer, the aspect ratio of my movie is way out of wack. The video plays an extremely enlarged and horizontally squished version. I see just the center of the video and like I mentioned, it is squished. Any thoughts? I tried manually overriding the default settings but that did not have any effect (which makes sense).

Please help!
can you send me a link to you site? so i can check this bug,
It seams to be a problem of JWPlayer so you can also contact they

Here is the link to the video page: http://888happy35.com/research/def-research-video.html

Tell me what you think. Any suggestions are helpful :)
Congratulations, your site looks great!

I saw tha you are using 3kplayer and i didnt found any bug on this page maybe is just some browser bug im using firefox and every thing looks ok
http://3den.org
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Re: DenVideo Q&A

Post by barryhb » Fri Sep 19, 2008 6:52 am

3dentech wrote:
barryhb wrote:Great plugin. I want to play a .flv file on my site, and it seems to work well using 3k flv player, however doesn't have the full frame feature of JWPlayer. Therefore, I tried using the JWPlayer(a nicer interface, IMHO)

However, when I use the JWPlayer, the aspect ratio of my movie is way out of wack. The video plays an extremely enlarged and horizontally squished version. I see just the center of the video and like I mentioned, it is squished. Any thoughts? I tried manually overriding the default settings but that did not have any effect (which makes sense).

I saw tha you are using 3kplayer and i didnt found any bug on this page maybe is just some browser bug im using firefox and every thing looks ok
Yes, using 3kplayer it looks OK. Now, I just switched it to the JW player. Take a look. The image is distorted:

http://888happy35.com/research/def-research-video.html

Any clue?

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Re: DenVideo Q&A

Post by barryhb » Sun Sep 21, 2008 4:35 am

I finally had to uninstall denVideo and install All Video Reloaded. See it here: http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/allvideos15/

It gives me control over the stretching parameter that has solved my problem. I can play the video with the skin I want and I have control over many buttons and a whole lot more. You can see it works perfectly now.

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Re: DenVideo Q&A

Post by kmk » Sat Oct 11, 2008 6:54 pm

I am having a problem with the new denVideo module (v. 2.0). When I put it on my website, my site can't load completely. In the Opera 9 browser, which shows elements loaded and loading, all but one element loads, and then it hangs. I believe this happens in other browsers also. I performed a 'process of elimination' test with the other modules on my site and am confident that denVideo is causing the problem. I cannot conclusively rule out a conflict with some other feature of my site. If there is a conflict, I need to know what it is and how to resolve it. denVideo is great and I really want to use it, but because of this problem, I have had to disable it for now. Can you help?
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Re: DenVideo Q&A

Post by eivihnd » Sat Nov 08, 2008 6:51 pm

Hello!

Thanks for a great and easy to use plugin!
I'm using denVideo on my webpage, for displaying flv videos.

But there's one thing I miss, and that's fullscreen-mode in the flv player.

Is it possible to use an other flv player?

Thanks

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Re: DenVideo Q&A

Post by Tauren » Wed Nov 12, 2008 9:35 pm

(sorry for my bad English) Hello! i love this plugin, bu a have one question, this plugin supported image Preview? if yes, please explaint me how to include image to video.

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Re: DenVideo Q&A

Post by jasonrhl » Sun Nov 16, 2008 8:38 pm

I would like to see this project grab a group of files from a directory and create the playlist automatically like wimpy player. Can this be made possible?

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Re: DenVideo Q&A

Post by dwizer » Tue Nov 25, 2008 5:25 pm

Nice video player :)

Didn't found where to ask questions on your homepage so i try here..

Can I play f4v files with this player? it says .flv and h.264? if not, maybe you can make that working? I need real Flash High Def :)

Thanks for the great work..

/ Mats

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Re: DenVideo Q&A

Post by michaelsturgis » Wed Dec 03, 2008 12:28 am

Hello i just love the den player, but hostgator did an upgrade to me server and now no video.
here is what they upgraded.
Quote:
Dear HostGator Client,
We will be performing scheduled maintenance on your server on December 1st @ 10:00 PM CST. During this time we will be upgrading our Apache web server to version 2.2.10 (from 1.3.4x). We will also be upgrading the operating system from CentOS 4.7 to CentOS 5.2.

This upgrade will allow us to provide you with a higher level of performance and security. During the upgrade we will also be installing a new set of mod_security rules which will add to the overall protection our clients websites. We will also be upgrading our firewall software which help deflect distributed denial of service attacks and ensure that your sites are kept functioning at optimal levels.
Would this break the player?
UPDATE!###########
Switched to JW player and it works so problem is with 2k SWF Player.
Anyway to fix?
Thanks michael

Thanks Michael

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Re: DenVideo Q&A

Post by 3dentech » Fri Dec 05, 2008 10:05 am

michaelsturgis wrote:Hello i just love the den player, but hostgator did an upgrade to me server and now no video.
here is what they upgraded.
Quote:
Dear HostGator Client,
We will be performing scheduled maintenance on your server on December 1st @ 10:00 PM CST. During this time we will be upgrading our Apache web server to version 2.2.10 (from 1.3.4x). We will also be upgrading the operating system from CentOS 4.7 to CentOS 5.2.

This upgrade will allow us to provide you with a higher level of performance and security. During the upgrade we will also be installing a new set of mod_security rules which will add to the overall protection our clients websites. We will also be upgrading our firewall software which help deflect distributed denial of service attacks and ensure that your sites are kept functioning at optimal levels.
Would this break the player?
UPDATE!###########
Switched to JW player and it works so problem is with 2k SWF Player.
Anyway to fix?
Thanks michael

Thanks Michael
Hello,
I saw no reason for this update "break" the player, but If any problem happens please explain here so i can do every think possible to help, test the mp3 player to
http://3den.org
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Re: DenVideo Q&A

Post by GrouchyGaijin » Mon Dec 08, 2008 2:48 pm

3dentech wrote:denVideo is the faster and smarter video plugin for Joomla! denVideo easily embed online streaming videos, applets and applications inside your content items. DenVideo is very fast and simple, just type {denvideo URL} to insert any kind of video in your content. )

If you have questions about denVideo, please post here :pop
Hi Guys,

I dig it - I have den video working and its pretty cool.
I'm new to Joomlia and have a question about how to place the video at a specific location in an article.

Basically what I want to do is have a menu item that says My Videos.
I want to click that menu and be taken to a page of videos.
Currently when I click the link that is supposed to take you to the list of videos I go to one page and one video starts playing automatically.
My question is how can I choose where the video should play? In the module manager I can edit the module I named "Larger Version of the Kids" but the only position choices I see are Left Right Top Bottom etc. Left and Right as well as User1 work. When I choose bottom or news flash for example all I see in the article is:

Here is a video of the kids playing with their legos.

{delvideo http://nancynalley.net/videos/Legos.swf}

Any ideas? Thank you.
Thanks,

GG

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Re: DenVideo Q&A

Post by 3dentech » Mon Dec 08, 2008 4:44 pm

GrouchyGaijin wrote:
3dentech wrote:denVideo is the faster and smarter video plugin for Joomla! denVideo easily embed online streaming videos, applets and applications inside your content items. DenVideo is very fast and simple, just type {denvideo URL} to insert any kind of video in your content. )

If you have questions about denVideo, please post here :pop
Hi Guys,

I dig it - I have den video working and its pretty cool.
I'm new to Joomlia and have a question about how to place the video at a specific location in an article.

Basically what I want to do is have a menu item that says My Videos.
I want to click that menu and be taken to a page of videos.
Currently when I click the link that is supposed to take you to the list of videos I go to one page and one video starts playing automatically.
My question is how can I choose where the video should play? In the module manager I can edit the module I named "Larger Version of the Kids" but the only position choices I see are Left Right Top Bottom etc. Left and Right as well as User1 work. When I choose bottom or news flash for example all I see in the article is:

Here is a video of the kids playing with their legos.

{delvideo http://nancynalley.net/videos/Legos.swf}

Any ideas? Thank you.

Hello Nancy,
I supose you already know how to put denVideo into articles, Same as the text your video can be any place in your article just add {denvideo http://nancynalley.net/videos/Legos.swf} where you wanna to display iit,
An idea for what you want is to create a Category "MyVideos" and create articles with videos there each article with only the video and some short description, so now to create your galery just add a new menu link to this category in "standard category layout" this will be a table with your video articles
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Re: DenVideo Q&A

Post by GrouchyGaijin » Mon Dec 08, 2008 6:21 pm

Thanks for the reply. This is partly why I think there is another problem going on.
I've pasted the text from a question I had about Den Video - the adding the {denvideo http://nancynalley.net/videos/Legos.swf} doesn't seem to work either.


Basically what I want to do is have a menu item that says My Videos.
I want to click that menu and be taken to a page of videos.
Currently when I click the link that is supposed to take you to the list of videos I go to one page and one video starts playing automatically.
My question is how can I choose where the video should play? In the module manager I can edit the module I named "Larger Version of the Kids" but the only position choices I see are Left Right Top Bottom etc. Left and Right as well as User1 work. When I choose bottom or news flash for example all I see in the article is:

Here is a video of the kids playing with their legos.

{delvideo http://nancynalley.net/videos/Legos.swf}

Any ideas? Thank you.
Thanks,

GG

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Re: DenVideo Q&A

Post by 3dentech » Tue Dec 09, 2008 10:42 pm

GrouchyGaijin wrote:Thanks for the reply. This is partly why I think there is another problem going on.
I've pasted the text from a question I had about Den Video - the adding the {denvideo http://nancynalley.net/videos/Legos.swf} doesn't seem to work either.


Basically what I want to do is have a menu item that says My Videos.
I want to click that menu and be taken to a page of videos.
Currently when I click the link that is supposed to take you to the list of videos I go to one page and one video starts playing automatically.
My question is how can I choose where the video should play? In the module manager I can edit the module I named "Larger Version of the Kids" but the only position choices I see are Left Right Top Bottom etc. Left and Right as well as User1 work. When I choose bottom or news flash for example all I see in the article is:

Here is a video of the kids playing with their legos.

{delvideo http://nancynalley.net/videos/Legos.swf}

Any ideas? Thank you.
Joomla usualy convert Url texts to Link, make sure you are using the last denvideo version, and remove the link from the url, and the plugin must be enabled
the positions depends of your template

is NOT {delvideo} is {DENvideo }
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Modifying the mod to add a caption below it

Post by osu » Thu Dec 11, 2008 8:21 pm

First of all 3dentech, thank you for your mod, it is truly superb. Well done.

Second of all :), is there a way to modify the module so that an extra parameter to add a caption is available in the denvideo module admin area?

I'd like to add a caption to the bottom of the denvideo module within a <span> tag with class="denvideo-caption". Is that possible?

I tried messing around with a copy of the module to see what I could do, but I got a bit lost...

Thanks!

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Re: DenVideo Q&A

Post by mjensen15 » Fri Dec 12, 2008 1:56 am

I cant figure this out for the life of me! I cant even show you the page because its a college server so it only shows up on campus but it comes up with the player but when you click to play is just says loading and stays like that, please help, i need really step by step dummy intsructions!

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Re: DenVideo Q&A

Post by GrouchyGaijin » Fri Dec 12, 2008 3:14 am

3dentech wrote:
is NOT {delvideo} is {DENvideo }
Thanks for catching that typo.

I have things working pretty well now except I'd like to know what is the format of the tag specifically?

I've tried {denvideo fileurl 320 260 0}
{denvideo fileurl 320 260 1}
{denvideo fileurl 320 260 yes}
{denvideo fileurl 320 260 no}
{denvideo fileurl 320 260 false}

I can't stop auto play.

Plug-in version v3.0b2
Module version 2.0
Joomla version 1.5.8

Thank you for your help.
Thanks,

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Re: Modifying the mod to add a caption below it

Post by 3dentech » Fri Dec 12, 2008 3:24 am

osu wrote:First of all 3dentech, thank you for your mod, it is truly superb. Well done.

Second of all :), is there a way to modify the module so that an extra parameter to add a caption is available in the denvideo module admin area?

I'd like to add a caption to the bottom of the denvideo module within a <span> tag with class="denvideo-caption". Is that possible?

I tried messing around with a copy of the module to see what I could do, but I got a bit lost...

Thanks!
Hi osu,
Yes you can do that within the module, is not hard but you must code on Joomla docs you can find tutorials about writing modules, so you can use that to customize the options of denvideo, you must add params in the XML file and then use

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$params->get('yourparam'); // to return the param i the layout
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