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2007

Product Reviews
Run Video Perfectly in Joomla
Written by Steve Burge   

SeyretOver the last couple of weeks, I've been involved in setting up a couple of Joomla sites that have relied heavily on video. Man, it was frustrating.

After a day or so, I ended up with a website full of every conceivable mambot, module and component, but none of them would work correctly:

  • In content, modules and other components
  • In all browsers
  • With the ability to resize each individual video
Finally, after a night to sleep on it, we came up with a solution. Read on to find out how to run videos perfectly in Joomla ... oh, and theres a special free gift at the bottom of the post.

The Best Way is the YouTube Way

Why not copy the best?

From Wikipedia: "YouTube converts videos into .FLV (Adobe Flash Video) format after uploading...YouTube officially accepts uploaded videos in .WMV, .AVI, .MOV, MPEG and .MP4, formats".

So thats what we set out to do. With the help of the excellent Seyret Video Component, follow these three steps to run all videos perfectly in Joomla, regardless of browsers, plugins, mambots, scripts or anything else that might get in your way:

1) Convert all videos to .FLV

Unlike YouTube, Seyret can't do this automatically. However, there's cheap software available that can allow you to easily convert all video types to .FLV. We use the Allok Video to FLV Converter. Click here to download the free trial version (P.C. Only)

2) Upload the videos to Seyret

Many videos may be over 2MB in size and unfortunately many shared hosting companies set limitations on the size of files that you can upload. Either ask them to raise this limit or create your own custom php.ini file. The line you need to change is: upload_max_filesize = 2M

3) Use the Embed Feature to Place Videos On Your Site

This is where the power of Seyret really comes in. You have complete flexibility to take the embed code for each video and place it anywhere in your site, in modules, in content and in other components. Unlike other solutions, you can also have a unique height and width for each video.

 

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leo
September 15, 2007

This is fantastic news and more than appreciated. Thanks the world! I do share your experience with the Seyret Video. It is a very cool product with indeed the powerful embed function as main feature.

Thanks for sharing this!

Cheers
Leo L.
MD. Joomadesk
http://joomadesk.com

Brian Teeman
Brian Teeman
September 15, 2007

thanks for the sef file. i've been using seyret extensively for the last few months now and it really is excellent

Klaus Nitsche
Klaus Nitsche
September 15, 2007

Thanks for the review - good to know! And for the SEF file as well.

Kind regards,
Zorro

Israel Meneses
Israel Meneses
September 24, 2007

Just wanted to say this is a really a good tutorial for new to this awesome app.

I'd like to know where I need to upload the sef_ext.php file to?

Thank you

Steve Burge
Steve Burge
September 24, 2007

Thanks for the kind words, Issy

Simply upload the file via FTP to Components >> com_seyret. sh404SEF will automatically pick it up.

I read over the Joomlaholic.com that a file for Artio SEF should also be available soon.

Steve

Knut-Erik
Knut-Erik
September 25, 2007

Thanks a lot for your excellent work with the sef file for seyret. You really saved my day and contributed to make a good component even better smilies/grin.gif Cheers,

Erik

Nuno Zimas
Nuno Zimas
September 28, 2007

One if our most steady customers has insisted to have his video productions run off a dedicated server, in spite of the warnings i have issued about costs.
However, since i got more or less proficient in the brrave new world of Amazon's EC2/S3 infrastructure, his dream is finally possible at really inexpensive rates.
This is useful for cases in which branding a product can make the difference.
It has been deployed at http://www.canarias24horas.com and features Seyret's ability to generate code one can embed anywhere.
The videos are served of an EC2 AMI with S3 storage in the background.

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marco
October 14, 2007

I ave a problem with sef advance, the categorie and the navpage (videocatlist/next/0.html) not work smilies/sad.gif ...the video link, search, add ecc works greet.

1.0.13 Stable sef advance 5.4.2
sorry for my bad english

Martin Bendig
Martin Bendig
October 18, 2007

thank you very much! it works fine.

just one question... a video direct link looks on my site like this: http://mypage.url/index.php/Se...nitou.html

is it possible to change it to: http://mypage.url/video/Video-Manitou.html ?

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Xact Web
October 27, 2007

Im glad you guys are having luck with seyret. I have it correctly installed and th newest version and its SOOOO full of bugs it not even funny. I would glady pay for this but I imagine the pro version is the same.

lee
lee
November 01, 2007

Hi, this sef is great but there is still a problem when clicking the full screen button in seyret when sh404sef is enabled. Any ideas on this?

Thanks again!

Jason Ure
Jason Ure
November 11, 2007

Yes i have the catergories issue too. I get a blank screen when i click on any video catergory link.
Everything else works fine.
To get the videos instead of the seyret (www.site.com/videos/video1) in sef advance goto strings menu. Down the bottom add this seyret=>videos
Wroks like a charm.

ryaku
ryaku
November 11, 2007

meh this broke my site for some reason all the sides went to the middle smilies/sad.gif

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Maik Kaune
November 15, 2007

My personal advice:
Video Converter for Mac OS X users, many export formats, everything u will need.

VisualHub
http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/

iSquint (FREE!, same application, but only iPod MP4 export!)

CU

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modeca
February 24, 2008

I've been using Seyret and the SEF file with sh404SEF. It works great for me. You can see the results at www.rawfoodideas.com/Videos

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jeffhuu
March 07, 2008

How to change seyret/ to video/

sliver
sliver
March 28, 2008

I have the same question,how to change seyret/ to video/ smilies/cry.gif

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Raw Food Health
April 12, 2008

If you make a new menu item, the type of which is the Seyret component, SH404sef will automatically rename the 'seyret' part of the url to 'videos' , or whatever you want to call the menu item.

In short, to change 'seyret' to 'videos':

1. Make your menu item
2. Install SH404sef
3. Install SEF component for Seyret - see link above

One thing I would like to change is the ' videodirectlink' part of the url when viewing individual clips.

guido
guido
April 30, 2008

too bad seyret is still not 1.5 native, but the developer is working on it!!
good things to come!

Jiri Ruzek
Jiri Ruzek
May 09, 2008

doesnt work, still have

Forbidden access
(Var not numeric: catid in POST)

any advice? j1.5.3/sh404/seyret0279

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Kris
May 18, 2008

Excellent extensions, but problems with french accent like "éphémère" or things like that, that cause 404 error when in the video's title smilies/sad.gif .... is there a solution for it...

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Marck
May 23, 2008

Thank you so much... that's exactly what I was looking for!!!!!!! smilies/smiley.gif

Emmanuel
Emmanuel
May 26, 2008

Sorry but the download link seems to be dead for me. Any idea on how I can get this file for testing smilies/wink.gif

Steve Burge
Steve Burge
May 26, 2008

Hi Emmanuel

We're just replacing Docman for our downloads. The new system should be ready in a day or two.

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mk13
May 30, 2008

does anyone know what is the size limit for seyret to play the video normally? ihave a very big video 170MB and really have to find a way to play it on my site. if seyret can't help me, do you have any suggestions for me?

thanks in advance
marko

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Hank Castello
June 18, 2008

For good quality video, my clients want to host the FLV file on our server. We have not found a component that will dependably play FLV files, but we are having success with Dreamweaver CS3 code for Flash video and using the "wrapper" function, to put it into a Joomla page.

I will probably write a component that can install into Joomla and accept the FLV file name as a parameter - unless someone can point me to a component like this that works reliably.

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Menty
June 20, 2008

I am working on getting SEF running for my British tv streams site uktvnow.com

Check it out http://uktvnow.com

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sharewarecheap
July 03, 2008

Thanks for your description.when i convert video to flv,i use Sothink Video Encoder for Adobe Flash
http://www.sharewarecheap.com/Video-Converters-category_Alpha_26_6.html it is excellent too.

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timwicks
September 06, 2008

Hey, I have the Pro version and last week started getting the 'holic' logo in the bottom right hand corner of the video screen. What's going on? I don't want it, it is ugly and I would have thought that by paying for the pro version I could avoid such crap. Otherwise I love Seyret.
cheers
tim

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Walter Ego
September 07, 2008

Hi,
I'm testing your work.
It seems working fine but I have some problems with:
- Section Category: when I click on the video on catergory list, the video page doesn't open
- The link at the bottom of video list (1-2-3 etc etc) is always the same
- Some link are wrong and gives me 404 error page.

Have you got any ideas to resolve the problems?
Thanks
Walter

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chriss
September 12, 2008

hi,
i have the same problem smilies/cry.gif

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Walter Ego
September 14, 2008

Nobody can answer me?
My video section doesn't work very well since I installed this work.
thanks

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ben simon
September 15, 2008

I don't know how to embed videos onto a page or into an article using Seyret. I want to actually have a videos on a product pages in a virtuemart shop. Deos any one know how to do this. Cheers Ben

Steve Burge
Steve Burge
September 15, 2008

Yes - just take the embed code and place it into the product description (turn off the WYSIWYG first)

Steve Burge
Steve Burge
September 16, 2008

To those of you with category and page URL problems - try the new version.

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Ricardo Capistran
September 19, 2008

Im having the same problem with the accents and special caracters like

What can we do? smilies/grin.gif

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Ricardo Capistran
September 19, 2008

Another idea, is there a way to insted of adding the name of the video, add the ID?

Im having trouble the videos with the same name smilies/cry.gif

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dgeez
September 29, 2008

Seyret has the *Potential* to be a great module. However, in our experience their service and support is NON-Existent(SUCKS). We paid to upgrade to the PRO Version and since JUNE, it is still not activated, nor have any of them replied to our many, many requests. We are currently looking for a custom Joomla developer to copy their module and make it work. Our budget is $30k to get this done properly and timely. If anyone can help - please reply via email.
Thanks.

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Mark Voorberg
November 04, 2008

I used ffmpeg on Linux to convert my mp4's to flv.

ffmpeg -i "movie.mp4" -y -f flv -ar 44100 -ab 64 -ac 1 -acodec mp3 "movie.flv"

Too bad they wouldn't play from within the J!1.5 version of Seyret. Actually I'm very disappointed with this component, nothing renders properly in IE6, it looks fine in FireFox3.0 and absolutely nothing will play on linux. I have all the plugins etc etc but no luck. the only thing I could play was an mov on IE using Quicktime Alternative - even that wouldn't play on Firefox on the same machine.

Anyway, at the end of the day, I'll probably write something custom because there's too much baggage bringing seyret along.

*Sigh.*

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ironman
November 26, 2008

it is working with latest joom package and seyret

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ahafa03
December 02, 2008

i have purchased seyret pro.actually all video works in seyret but when i try to open in seyret pro ,its could not...display show triangular sign in middle of screen.what can i do?plz help me

tromp wezelman
tromp wezelman
December 06, 2008

There is a pagination problem with this SEF plugin. Please can you fix this?

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lvliguel
January 05, 2009

uhmmm I like it but I want to put Ads in my website and if I put that I need to buy the Commercial version, something I can do??
:(

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Yoyoman
January 14, 2009

Dude, thanks for this, excellent

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motherhen
March 26, 2009

Why wouldn't you just use something like blip.tv and take the embed code and put it in an article or custom module and do without seyret. I tried installing Seyret and couldn't get it to work and now just use blip.tv pro (private account) and embed the videos anywhere I want.

John Rozzo
John Rozzo
April 01, 2009

Have to agree with motherhen - blip.tv is a viable option, moreso than Seyret in many instances.

I petition that this topic get an update - since this post was first published, Joomla has many more options. (Disclosure: I'm in the middle of writing a similar post in Spanish for my [Wordpress!] blog at the Joomla-powered site, apodo.tv - let's compare notes!)

Thanks.

Mien Noesh
Mien Noesh
April 16, 2009

Can someone point me out where the download link is..im missing it somehow? Thanks!

Final Destiny
Final Destiny
May 19, 2009

yes where's the download link smilies/sad.gif

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Ravindra
May 27, 2009

Hi Guys,

How I can download the SEF file.. I did not get any link here.. Please give me the details .

Thanks in advance.

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Frank mx
June 03, 2009

Where's the download link?

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Jeremiah
June 15, 2009

Hey guys,I have a problem viewing a video after uploading it.Anyone with a solution?

Thanks i advance.

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