Over the past 18 months, I have installed Seyret on half a dozen websites. I have used both the free version and have paid to upgrade to the so-called PRO version. I will list the following problems that I have requested help for over the past year that have never been resolved:

1. Seyret adds a backslash to every apostrophe. This has been an ongoing problem in the forums for years, and has never been fixed. It makes an otherwise professional website look amateur.

2. The Seyret avatar does not integrate with the JomSocial avatar, despite everything.

3. There is a useless bar of nothing at the top of the Videos Home page.

4. Videos will not upload! How can a video component not upload video?! You can Add Videos from YouTube, but 99% of the time you cannot upload a local file. It worked for me twice and then never again. I've scoured the forums for solutions, but every single thread about upload problems has remained unanswered for 15 months or more.

5. I originally thought that the Native 1.5 Seyret would fix these problems. Maybe it will, but I can't stick around any longer to find out. Bad service is bad service, I'm sorry to say.

6. My posts on these issues are not alone - they were only added to a chorus of similar problems. NEVER ONCE have these issues been solved.

NOTE ABOUT THE PRO VERSION: The PRO version certainly does not mitigate any of the problems nor does it entitle you to better customer service. Silly me for making that mistake!

While I originally liked Seyret, I have to finally admit that it is more headache than it is worth and move on to another video component. I dread making the switch, especially because I think I'll lose all the YouTube adds, but what can I do? I'm forced to by horrible customer serve (PAID for, mind you!).

This is a great product. Works immediately. Once the component is made known at the front-end, a simple link to the YouTube video suffices.
That's what I needed: a simple 'link to YouYube' tool and this one is does the job. I looked at other products here and they are all quite complicated and require to use embedded code and all that stuff.
Oh yes... the many possibilities to set access rights to users are great.

these is the best video stream comp. on Joomla why , because its great in every thing , embedding videos , streaming videos from local folder, i don't who are they and how they give this comp. just 1 star it deserve 10 ! just saved me from allot of headache easy to install easy to use i don't have any problems with it and it works great on my site , thanks

HORRIBLE customer service... actually, I don't think it really exists- go check out the forum for yourself- there are unanswered posts that are months old. We went from hwdvideo to seyret and now found an excellent component- jvideodirect... installed it and works like a charm without any major conflicts and has far better features than either of the other two! We're happy now. Don't waste your money like we did.

Very good component, thing first one for YouTube video. I used 3 years. But have problem with slow open when I have many visit in one time. And is record of validator: Result: 1180 Errors, 171 warning(s) With out component and module I have 0 Errors. They forget for Validators ...

Congrats. this is one of the best extensions for video. Very easy to install, good support, good documentation.

This component is very well made and their Forum covers just about everything the user needs to know. Editing mainpage.php and frontpage.php may be necesary to achieve a desired look.

It is obvious the developer spent quite a lot of time making this component. I bought the Pro version and for $40 it was a steal, even for 1 template that I wanted, not to mention all of the extra features. It organizes all categories and videos with class and style. Permissions can easily be set to allow any group of users to see specific videos. It really does it all.

I see some negative comments in this reviews section and for many other great components. Most seem to come from people who expect a component to be installed and work exactly like they want. Joomla is written in PHP and anyone that wants to take advantage of components should have a decent base of understanding so they can edit and make an extension customized. If someone wants something custom done to this component they can always hire help. I would imagine an hour or two of labor would customize the component to work as desired.

I read negative comments posted here, then, I thought of all the work that was done to package this extension as well as all of the work to create so many themes and skins. Obviously, some people think their raging 2 cents worth is really valid without a glimpse of understanding what they got for free or $40. Try to walk in the Developer's shoes for one minute and see what was created to be installed on countless servers running countless customized PHP versions. As far as a batch conversion goes, it has this, but you may be better off using a commercial or free flv converter so that you can convert large files to flv on your PC, then upload the video and add the video in the backend.

Yet, even the free version does wonders.

There are always the critics who only want to say something bad and never comment on anything good. This component may not be perfect right out of the box, but it is perfect otherwise when it comes to a quality video player.

Great work Seyret.

Kent

I tried it in 3 days for Joomla 1.5. I found documents and follow them. Not very easy at first but it's worth for everyone to try. I installed, had youtube/local video public. Fantastic!

The free version doesn't meet my demand because users can't download video. Maybe I will buy a Paypal account to have Pro version.

Thank guys, great work, please go on!

It looks and works great, i do have a plugin issue with seyret button, but other than that, its fantastic

This may very well work with 1.0 -- but to advertise this as "1.5 Legacy" is inaccurate at best.

My 1.5 installation required two days of "banging on the pipes" just to get it to stay on a page and not vanish its own Search box off the right edge of the monitor. It still won't talk with Jom Comment, Kunena (it claims to support Fireboard) nor allow my users to vote on videos.

Some of its plugins -- available at JoomlaToys -- throw terrifying PHP errors in 1.5. Enable one at a time, then fully test your site. The only one I can get to play nice is the MOD that integrates with Search. (Which, by the way, IS an awesome feature.)

The interface is simply not up to Joomla standards. For instance, wait until you import a few hundred videos into the system only to discover there not only is no way to "Select All -> Publish" but that if you try to "Select Unpublished" the screen will reset to Page One with all videos selected EACH time you publish a video. That's not just "not user-friendly", it is downright user-hostile.

If you go this route with 1.5, fair warning; you may, like me, reach the conclusion that "Seyret" is Turkish for "sadness."

... like youtube videogoogle etc etc... For me - its working perfect and its looks fantastic. Works with Community Builder, with comments system. 5/5 - the only one rate i can give. I not tested special seyret functions like uploading converting and other.

The Seyret product is nowhere ready for release. The demo version works perfectly on J1.5, but the Pro version doesn't work at all. The forum suggests disabling mod_security for your domain, which I haven't tried. This blame is placed upon the flash uploader.

The license supposedly allows one domain, and one sub-domain. They also don't support this feature. Support is non-existent! Documentation is very poor, and doesn't illustrate any features or usage of this product.

Uninstalling the Pro vesion to test it or use it on my live site, left my demo site in a condition that module locations in content are confused, and portions of the css style are ignored. I may have to recreate the whole demo site! This may be because of hacks that need to be applied through the Seyret control panel.

Check the forum, and you will find many unhappy users. If you have not migrated to Joomla 1.5, I'm sure the product works perfectly, and the concept of the product is very useful!

This is a great component

Hi all, i have purchased this component, if somebody want the license, is yours, i don´t want it.

I can´t belive how he dare to say that his script is like youtube.

The script is ok when it's free, I paid for the "pro" license to have the flv video conversion, it never happened and nobody helped me, nobody is going to help you, if you don´t believe me go to the component forum and see it by yourself, lots of people complaining for the same reason, hundreds of posts unanswered, an absolute LACK OF SUPPORT.

I changed to a server with all the specifications that they say are needed (in the wiki) and nothing.

My advice, use it but don´t pay for it.
If you are looking for a real video solution, this isn´t. Search in the web, there are others with real support and that really work.

Joomla's reputation is soiled with such components like this, i have purchased lots of components and never happened nothing like this.

Very good component, if you wish to have a youtube-like video component on your site

Don't expect support on this product because you will not get it, use HWD video share instead. If you have a problem 6 months down the line when you have invested lots of time into it and you have an issue they will not help you.

Anyone who goes around rating applications 1/5 because they didn't install it correctly or because they have another app that conflicts with it, should be embarrassed. This is an incredible application that's free, and rating it 1/5 is just malicious. I donated and got the pro version which allows you to upgrade from the backend. This is truly impressive since most components don't even tell you when there is a new version out.

The gallery itself is highly customizable. The only problem we had was that the category listing was hardcoded to be 4 columns but we fixed that ourselves. Pro version was worth the purchase for the lifetime upgrades and the different player skins but even if you don't upgrade, there's so much that you get for free with nothing hindering your site on the look and feel that you should try this component first without hesitation.

This really is the perfect app if you want a video gallery. It easily places videos from popular sites like youtube straight from the link, or you can upload your own video files and it converts them for you.

What more can you want? Oh yeah, AND it's free. How ungrateful does one have to be to rate so much quality and so many features a 1/5? There's nothing wrong with it, and if you can't get it working but you read reviews saying that it works fine then obviously you are doing something wrong.

This is a solid 5/5 with no need to look any further. :D

If you want to use this as a YouTube! gallery on your site, the free version will work... It's buggy, but it'll work.

If you more than that, look elsewhere. The code is heavy and extremely buggy. FFMPEG integration in the "pro" version is nothing but a fairy tale. Check the mfg's forum - there are multiple complaints concerning FFMPEG, and I've not found a post from any user that claims they have FFMPEG conversion working with this product. It's a fallacy.

Support is virtually nil, so is running on J1.5.

Payment/verification system is flawed at best. These guys put way too much energy in making sure they get the user's money, and not nearly enough in product development.

Has a lot of cool features like a cb comments plugin and a neat design and cool organization, howeve it has php erros, the plug ins do not install and most of the videos that I tried adding would not play or had major errors. Isnt even worth it for free :( They should really go back to the drawing board on this one. It should not be made available on this site!

I've installed the component twice: on localhost and in a server.

The component has a link in the backend called 'Diagnostics' where the componet says if the perms of the componet are OK. In localhost you can change the owner of the directories and it will roolz (only in theory).

If you install the component on a server and you must give perms 777 to the root joomla site. This is because the programmers of the componet has chossen the root directory to install the upload directories to the component. (INCREDIBLE!!!)

But the big question apperars when you try to use the component (The programmers says with small caps that the componet has bugs). The componet only is valid to local videos and moreover the component is done with bugs to force to the users to buy the PRO VERSION.

For to buy the PRO VERSION you must donate 40US$ at least. The programmers make up the sell of the program using the word 'Donate'.

Well. like I'm so stupid "I've donated" 40US$ to this people. I was hopeing for a tarball update and some instructions. NOT NOT NOT NOT. The upgrade pro version is through an extrange link which one appear on the backend. I think this link is done to avoid someone could modify the code.

Don't try to buy (They say Donate) this component using the localhost(the way to buy it is through the backend) because you must to contact with the boss of the component cause the componet no works.

Their forum has a lot of questions without response. :-0

Extrange people, extrange componet, extrange donations, extrange sellers.

dr7tbien