 Over 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 WayWhy 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 .FLVUnlike 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 SeyretMany 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 SiteThis 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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Thanks for sharing this!
Cheers
Leo L.
MD. Joomadesk
http://joomadesk.com
Kind regards,
Zorro
I'd like to know where I need to upload the sef_ext.php file to?
Thank you
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
Erik
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.
1.0.13 Stable sef advance 5.4.2
sorry for my bad english
just one question... a video direct link looks on my site like this: http://mypage.url/index.php/Seyret/videodirectlink/Video-Manitou.html
is it possible to change it to: http://mypage.url/video/Video-Manitou.html ?
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