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It seems starting the preview image was dropped in version 2.4. Any particular reason? This is down grade of the standard.The display is more attractive with a preview image.

I was very happy before with the AllVideos Plugin when it only used to stream video from outside sources (youtube, etc). But, now that you made it a local player as well, I am ectastic. Words don't exist that would praise you highly enough. I wonder if you might include .mkv (Matroska) video files in your plugin as well, so I wouldn't have to downgrade them to .avi or .mpg first? Thank you!

very cool to put you tube video in my content.

I like it !

Sunny regards

Kurt Steiner

OK - Just installed the update and all appears well.

Having used Joomla since it split from Mambo I can say that the author of this plugin should receive a medal or a donation of anyone that uses it a lot on their sites.

On issue - a lot of times i cannot get WMA files to stream at all. Also I find some mp3's play at "chipmunk" speed !! I think this is VBR or something in the way they are encoded ?? many a time I have had to re-encode an MP3 several times to get it working and sounding OK.

One thing though - what happened to the ability to add an image as a placeholder for video items?? I made one especially and it worked with version 2.1 but now I see no option for it.

I'm off to check the forum on the developers site... I could have missed something but I'm pretty familiar by now with it :)

Once again CodeLines that Rocks!
Thanks to Fotis Evangelou & George Chouliaras
Mambot is plug & play.
Many Thanks!!!

This is a superb piece of work. Installs easily and works first time with files that are local to the site. (Make sure that you view the published story, and not a preview!)
But... I'm sorry to be one of the few with criticism here. I found that it didn't work on almost all of the remote audio file I tried, using the {mp3remote} tag, and in this case including the file extension.
I checked the files and the servers using Odeo, and they are functioning ok, with no hotlinking measures. There doesn't seem to be any documentation to cover this.

Had some difficulty getting it installed, but that was not the plugin's fault. I was just too new to Joomla.

Makes the content much nicer (is an understatement) having video intergrated into the content.

Cant imagine my site without it.

Works great and easy to use. Is it possible that in future releases we can put the video directory outside of the web accessable area (www, public_html, etc..) to prevent people from hotlinking? .htaccess doesn't do such a great job with preventing video hotlinking.

Overall, excellent work!

I have been testing this plug in on a demo site for a while and have found it to be a most excellent, simple to use and worthwhile addition! Frequently updated and with great documentation. I rarely use it to stream videos from other sources but instead use it for my own hosted videos. I am not a coder in any way shape or form so please forgive me if i overlook something. These are a few ideas that i have had regarding the AllVideos Plugin that i have had to find solutions for elsewhere:

1.) I have been using the mgmedia bot (also a great extension) for in content pop up videos. For example a "Click Here to Play" hyperlinked pop up video. The mgmedia works great for this, unfortunately it seems it is updated much less frequently. Perhaps an in content, hyperlink Pop up option for this Plugin?

2.) The newest player used in 2.4 has the ability to utilize playlists for media content. However i do not see a way to make this work from within the AllVideos Plugin. Perhaps this is just me. I would definately like to utilize the playlist feature if possible from within this plugin.

3.) The video size remains static. This has been discussed elsewhere, and i understand that as a whole it works well for the goals of this plugin. For my particular situation it would be nice to not have a global setting but perhaps an in string variable setting such as is found in the mgmedia bot?

4.) I have not been able to find a way to have the first frame of the video (before playing) display a logo or picture of my choosing. It always displays the play arrow. This is probably a shortcoming on my side however.

These are just my thoughts again please forgive me if i am saying something that has already been addressed or is a simple coding process that i dont know about. I love this Plugin very much as it is, and have nothing but the best to say about all joomlaworks.gr plugins!

I have a site where users post their own blog. With this mambot they can now add videos to their blog with no problem at all! I created a help file for users using the documentation that came with the plugin and everything works like a charm!

Keep up the good work!

Having been using this mod for a month, I found this module works beautifully except that the number of videos/media inserted in a content page cannot exceed 10. I wish there was no limit on the number of videos in a content page. I like this module, keep up the good work. Thank you so much!

I totally agree with every positive post made here regarding this plug-in. There's just one thing I need for it: the ability to temporarily disable it inline within content. Why? So I can explain how it works in an article on my site so members who actually use their blogs can include their own videos in them. Of course, it can be done by interlacing HTML within the provider tags, but it would be much nicer to have a {noavp}{/noavp} element (or something like that).

Excellent work!

Only potential beef I have with this is you can't specify your video dimensions by passing parameters in the content window. Apparently you have to preset one video size and thats it.

Hopefully I missed something but thats what it looks like. You have to really fall in love with one video size for all your content.

One of the best components I've come across.

PLEASE CORRECT: for streaming media from remote servers it should be {mp3remote}http://www.remoteserver.com/somedirectory/file{/mp3remote}

You've added .mp3 to the file name which is incorrect.

Thanks,
Navin

Since CB, now only if we can see a plugin to integrate the two! :) ...This component is AWESOME!

This plugin works great, but, I have not been able to get it play files on other servers.

(I keep my video files on a different server and domain than my actual site.)

none of commercial components are even close to allVideos. thanks developers and congratulations

it does work immediately as long as you also know about the bug_fix for 2.0.11.
As soon as that's done it's dead easy to get it working.

Keep up the good work and thanks for a nice tool

Usually I split my review in a pros and cons section. For this one, however, I can find nothing for the cons section. Everything works straight out of the box, exactly as promised. Easy syntax, easy configuration.
Great work, thank you!

This has got to be my new all time favorite extension EVER.
I volunteer for an organization that posts several videos weekly, and this has cut my work from several hours a week to about five minutes, NO EXAGERATION. Thank you SO MUCH.
No problems whatsoever with the extension.