Newbie Needs Help with Videos!

[SFoster63]

Hey Guys,

I would like to add videos to our website.

Our website was built and set-up by a web developer then handed of to me to maintain as he wiped his hands clean of the project.

I am trying to figure out how to add videos to our site.

Any ideas?

Thanks!!

[numinousmedia]

Do you want to upload videos to your website? Or embed videos from [youtube] or another video website?

[SFoster63]

Do you want to upload videos to your website? Or embed videos from [youtube] or another video website?

Both eventually...but the current project is to upload a video to our site.

[numinousmedia]

If you are using the JCE Article Editor, you can purchase a button for the menu called the Media Manager that works extremely well (you can get all of their extra buttons and functions for about $15.00 actually). It allows you to easily upload a video and insert it, or embed a video from another website. This is the route I go with most of the websites, and it works just about flawlessly.

One thing you will want to figure out first is your website hosts upload limit. I work with quite a few different hosts, and their upload limits run anywhere from 5 megabytes to 130 megabytes. 5 is definitely not enough for a video upload.

[SFoster63]

If you are using the JCE Article Editor, you can purchase a button for the menu called the Media Manager that works extremely well (you can get all of their extra buttons and functions for about $15.00 actually). It allows you to easily upload a video and insert it, or embed a video from another website. This is the route I go with most of the websites, and it works just about flawlessly.

One thing you will want to figure out first is your website hosts upload limit. I work with quite a few different hosts, and their upload limits run anywhere from 5 megabytes to 130 megabytes. 5 is definitely not enough for a video upload.

We are hosted by GoDaddy if that helps.

Also, the guy that built the website said that I am already to upload video he just never explained how. I do have "Media Manager" in my administrator panel. I've tried going in there to add the video, maybe I am doing it wrong?

[numinousmedia]

The Media Manager on your Control Panel is the default file manager that comes with Joomla. That particular media manager is really made for working with images, not video or audio files. The Media Manager I use is part of the JCE Editor. JCE creates a menu above your article editor with different buttons that allow you to work with your content. Lots of developers use JCE, so you may have that menu already.

It looks like GoDaddy's default upload limit is 8 megabytes. Here's a thread on GoDaddy's upload limits, and how to change them: http://support.godaddy.com/groups/web-h ... limit-2mb/