Streaming local content

With AllVideos Reloaded, it possible for everyone to stream media which previously has been uploaded using either Joomla!s standard method or a dedicated meida manager. This option can be helpful for a lot of reasons. For example, imagine a company website that needs to display company videos without any "YouTube" logos! Another possible situation could be the contiguous downtime of some providers which leave you with a blank space in your website.

You can upload on your Joomla! website almost any type of video format used today on the web. From Windows Media to QuickTime, Flash, DivX or Real Media and of course MP3!

So, how would you add video (or audio) files that you just uploaded to your content, using the AllVideos Reloaded Plugin? Simple!

Before you start, you should create your master video- and audio- folders. If you kept the defaults in the plugin's parameters, then these folders must be named videos resp. audio and must be located in your local site's images directory. (With Joomla! 1.5, this directory is configurable in the Tab "System Settings" of the Global Configuration.) If you use the predefined defaults, you end up in using ROOT/images/stories/videos resp.ROOT/images/stories/audio. After uploading some videos holiday.flv and party.avi into the videos folder, you then can create video frames in your content, by simply writing {flv}holiday{/flv} resp. {avi}party{/avi}. Please note: The file path is prepended automatically and the file extension (always lowercase!) is appended automatically by the plugin. If you are filling up your videos folder, you might want to organize your media into subfolders, so if - for example - you got a file named ROOT/images/stories/videos/holiday2007/film1.flv, the corresponding text would be: {flv}holiday2007/film1{/flv}. Got the idea? Ok. From now on, we will refer to that text string as tag in this documentation. The following table shows the supported file formats for local streaming and the corresponding tags to be used:

For all of the above listed tags, there exists a secondary variant which does not prepend the path automatically and does not append any extension. (In other words: uses the name as is). This variant can be used both for streaming local and remote media. You use this variant by appending the word remoteto the original tag. E.g:{flvremote}http://www.yoursite.com/images/stories/videos/name.flv{/flvremote}