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Seyret

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
  

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.

Finally ... The Free Giveaway. Its an SEF File for Seyret

As a thank-you to folks at Seyret for developing such a useful component, we've helped out a little with a free file to provide Search Engine Friendly URLs for Seyret. Simply unzip and upload to components/com_seyret/. We've tested it with SEF Advance and sh404SEF.

Click here to download (you'll need to login).

Comments (21)

Great News
written by leo, September 14, 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

thanks for the sef
written by 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

Good stuff
written by Zorro, September 15, 2007

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

Kind regards,
Zorro

Upload Help
written by issy, September 23, 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

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written by steve, 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

Ahh! Excellent!
written by kehelle, 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 Cheers,

Erik

When Youtube is not enough
written by nzimas, September 27, 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.

sef_ext.php
written by marco, October 13, 2007

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

1.0.13 Stable sef advance 5.4.2
sorry for my bad english

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written by Martin, 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 ?

Seyret
written by 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.

full screen
written by 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!

Catergories issue too
written by 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.

meh
written by ryaku, November 11, 2007

meh this broke my site for some reason all the sides went to the middle

Video Converter for Mac OS X users
written by 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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written by 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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written by jeffhuu, March 07, 2008

How to change seyret/ to video/

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written by sliver, March 28, 2008

I have the same question,how to change seyret/ to video/

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written by 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.

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written by guido, April 30, 2008

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

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written by matt, May 08, 2008

I've been using Seyret Pro for months and its working fine - but I dont understand your comments here about being able to embed videos. I have the component published in one location which shows a video...how can i embed a player inline, in an article?
I'm doing it now with youtube's embed code, but i'd rather use the seyret player (it removes the youtube logo). my videos are hosted on youtube, do i have to upload to my own server to embed? thanks! please email solution to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ! appreciated!

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written by coleus, 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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