This post applies to AllVideosPlugin only. If your Joomla website is not set up with AllVideosPlugin, this tutorial will not work for you. This information was copied directly from the AllVideosPlugin Mambot Help page and edited slightly for your convenience.
First set up a folder call "videos" inside your Control Panel Media Manager. By default
this folder is called "videos" and resides within images/stories. So
the full path to this folder would be images/stories/videos.
Say you uploaded 2 videos called baby_david.flv and birthday_party.mov.
To Add Videos Using HTML
To add these videos to any content item, add or edit content by simply adding {flv}baby_david{/flv} and {mov}mariasparty{/mov}.
To remove videos (videos on another server where you have a full url like http:/www.someothersite.com/folder/nameofvideo.mov) you can use this syntax:
{flvremote}http://luxmedia.yoursite.net/clients/schools.flv{/flvremote}
If you have a filetype and you're not sure of the proper reference code (like who knew Quicktime are .mov files), you can get a complete list by going here:
Control Panel > Mambots > Site Mambots > AllVideos Plugin > Usage Instructions pt. 1.
Adding Videos in Joomla 1.5
To Add a YouTube Video:
- First, you must open the article/ content item where you want to place the video
- Place cursor where you want the video to be placed
- Click on the AVR Media Button which can be found at the bottom of the article (content) editor screen
- Look under the tab for "Remote Media"
- Fill in the following Categories
- URL: Type in the URL to the YouTube video that you want to place on your site
- Provider: Scroll down and choose "youtube (original player)"
- ID: This should be filled in with the ID for the video. This is usually the second part of the URL or whatever comes after the equal sign. For example if this was the URL of the video you wanted to insert: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x3UezyOEkI then the ID would be 4x3UezyOEkI
- Width/Heith: specify the width and height to match your site. It is recommended to make all videos the same size. Ex: 400 by 320 is a good size
- Click "Insert" and then close the AVR media box
- Click "save" to navigate away from this article or click to "apply" to stay on this editor screen and check the live site to ensure that the video is showing up
To Add a Video from Your Personal Collection:
- First, you must be sure that the video you want to include has been uploaded or FTP'd into the correct folder for your site. If the video has not yet been uploaded do the following:
- Click on the File Manager
- On the left hand side where it says folders, navigate to the folder where you are storing all of your videos. This probably will be /images/stories/videos folder.
- Once in the correct folder go to the upload icon
 click "browse" and then locate the file on your computer and click upload
- Once it says 100% or the details window (on right) shows information about file click "cancel" to get out of the file manager
- After the video has been uploaded, Place cursor where you want the video to be placed
- Click on the AVR Media Button which can be found at the bottom of the article (content) editor screen
- Look under the tab for "Local Media"
- Fill in the following Categories
- Media: Use the drop-down menu to locate the movie file you want to insert
- Media Type: This should automatically generate based on the video you chose above. If not choose which type of video it is ex: mov, mpg, etc.
- ID:
This should automatically populate based on the file name.
- Width/Heith:
specify the width and height to match your site. It is recommended to
make all videos the same size. Ex: 400 by 320 is a good size
- Click "Insert" and then close the AVR media box
- Click
"save" to navigate away from this article or click to "apply" to stay
on this editor screen and check the live site to ensure that the video
is showing up
To Add a Screen Shot to a video
Some videos in your personal collection may not show up with a screenshot on your webpage. If this is something you want to add, follow the steps below:
For FLV files only the following will work:
- Take screen shot of your video. This can be done either by using the "print screen" key on your keyboard and then editing the picture in photoshop (crop, change size to match video, change resolution to 72 etc.) and save it as a jpg. OR if you cannot capture a still shot by this method:
- Download Frameshots program: http://www.frame-shots.com this will cost $30 dollars
- Open video in frameshots and click play
- When you see the still shot you want to use click on the "Take Snapshot" button (adjust Height and width as desired to match video file)
- If you like the image you captured click on "Save Thumbnail" and save it on your computer.
IMPORTANT NOTE* THE PHOTO/SCREENSHOT MUST HAVE THE SAME NAME AS THE VIDEO
- Once you have the screen shot saved that you want to use for your video, you need to upload it into the folder where you are storing your videos probably /images/stories/videos folder. To learn how to upload photos see the Add photos tutorial
- Next you need to go to the article where the video has been added and change the code to match the following:
- In your content the video code should have read something like this: {flv}NameOfVideo {/flv}
- To add a screen shot change the code to look like this: {flv img="/images/stories/videos/NameOfVideo.jpg" width="400" height="320"}NameOfVideo{/flv}
- Save or apply and you are done.
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