The best video gallery and sharing component I have seen, also the Community Builder plugins are excellent. Everything installed with no problems at all.
Support is excellent, I contacted them about extended functionality of the content plugin, received a fast response and the modifications were added to the next nightly build. Worked perfectly.

Thanks for a brilliant component, worth every penny.

This is probably the best video sharing product available!!!

This is the best video program for Joomla. I suggest buying the Pro, it's not much money and it won't make you go broke. The pro version comes with revenue manager which is an excellent tool if you want to make money off your videos.

It's easy to use and easy to customize!

I was expecting tons of setup and troubleshooting time with this, and nothing of a sort happened. I installed the com and plug-ins and was adding youtube videos 5 minutes later!

The template it came with was actually the pefect color match to my site so I was even fine with that.

I haven't tried the mencoder/ffmpeg local conversions but I really don't need this for that. The youtube adding function works well enough.

Terrific extension! Works right out-of-the-box, does what it promises, although Alpha no bugs detected so far! If only I could get ffmpeg etc. working on a shared-hosting environment, but that's my problem... Thanx a lot, indeed!

As I was trying to make a video gallery for my website, I did a very good research for the best way to do that. Highwood Design Video Share is the best I found and I'm already using it.

It lets your users to upload or "embed" their favorite videos, so you don't have to do anything. It has many many parameters to suit everyone's needs but it is easy to install, easy to get the idea about how it works and easy to configure.

The support also seems to be great and fast. With your subscription you get the all-in-one package (component, modules, templates, plugins...) so you don't have to search and download every extra thing that you need.

For the money you give, you get many many good stuff!

well done guys, keep up the good job!

this is the best video component i've ever seen and tried. The system of categories and groups is great and the pro version is really incredible!

thanks !!

I've purchased the license for 5 sites. Worked Amazing in one of the sites, and when I had errors in another site, I went to the support forum and the support was one of the best I've found in all the support forums of the Joomla Components I've tried.

The Definitive Video Gallery Component for Joomla. That's it.

Excelent Work. Sorry, Amazing Work. And it can be Better!

This is a great component, the results are amazing with very little effort. I did have some bumps setting up the path to some directories, I have windows server and everitme i tried to enter the paths on the server settings, it would save the path with extrange characters, i had to modify the configuration fiels and set the variable manually, but the developers did warn about being in the beta stage. This is a minor issue, comparing the nice outcome.

I don't post reviews unless I'm really satisfied, or dissatisfied with an extension. I have to say that I am VERY satisfied with this one.

This extension not only met, but exceeded my expectations. I had been using seyret for a long time, but I have switched permanently to hwdVideoShare. Imagine my suprize when I was able to import all of my videos from seyret to hwdVideoShare.

Thanks for a great component! Keep up the good work.

The script is just excellent! worthy to be anywhere.

I've installed it, tried it and it works great. It is loaded with features, great customization, haven't found any bugs yet and it does it's job well.
I had to give it 5 stars although I don't completely agree with with this particular "decision".
Quoting from the documentation:

" Why can I not add videos through the administrator?

hwdVideoShare has been specifically designed to function as a community video gallery. It has been structured to allow normal users to upload and share videos. It is not the purpose of hwdVideoShare to manage the administrator's personal video gallery only. "

First, how hard would it be to add this? Just a simple upload button so that admins are not forced to use FTP, many don't know how and it's an extra unnecessary step.

Second, it's purpose is to have normal users upload. What are normal users? I have a website with several accounts, many people contributing to the website but all is done via the backend, the frontend has no login and that's how we need it to be. No login, no upload for only those we want.

Third, ok so it's not the purpose of the extension to give the admin his personal gallery. Then you basically allow super-admin rights to be given to the button so it will only show for the admin, basically giving him his personal gallery but via the frontend.

It is my opinion many would benefit from this and why not have it on the front and backend? It would only benefit the extension.

Cheers.

This is by far one of the best components I have used with my Joomla website production. At first, I downloaded the free version and was disappointed to see that it included no modules, plugins, or anything like that. I was so impressed with it and needed the modules and plugins that I actually bought the full version and subscription (this is the first time I have ever bought a Joomla component). It was a good price when comparing to other video components (and I compared ALL of them.) Plus, at the time I bought it, it allowed 6-10 or unlimited site licensees at a VERY reasonable price.

After purchasing the pro subscription, I downloaded the package which contained the component, lots of modules, and plugins. It was ready to go right out of the box and there are even 5 templates as well!

And, on the plus side, I have asked numerous questions on their support forums to get a response from their support team right away. I have been very impressed by the component AND the support team backing it. This IS the video component for Joomla and, again, I have researched all of the other video components and this one is definitely the best.

I'd first like to thanks Highwood Design for the great work on hwdMediaShare Pro. It definitely boosted my gallery and video section on my website which was severely lacking with other components. I would highly suggest to anyone who is looking for a much more modern and interactive media site (even for communities as myself) to purchase the hwd subscription for hwdMediaShare Pro.

I've downloaded both hwd and jVideoDirect. For all of users that are searching for a good video sharing extention, i have to say both are good but i more recommend hwd.
BUT[!] there is some problems that I've to say:
first of all the UI is realy bad, you have to spend a day to find how you can change a small setting.
second, it's really unfair that you download a free software but it tell you you cannot ask a question in forum because you didn't bought this product!
And for third, my dynamic thumbnails (that is really amazing feature) are being shown just when i hover my mouse pointer on them!

Great component !
For me it's the best video sharing extension for Joomla. It's easy to install, contains a lot of parameters for customization and it has a very good support/forum.

This has to be one of the very best components out there. I tried a load of them and this came out tops in every department. It's ability to interface with Community Builder and display all the users videos in one place makes it perfect for my needs. When I had a support query it was answered literally within seconds of my posting it, with clear concise instructions, not just some link to a huge document. 5 Stars all around.

Brilliant software, amazing quality service and support 5 stars!

First off the software itself is very VERY good. It does exactly what it says on the 'box' and a WHOLE LOT more. Turns your site into a Youtube type video site, in fact I found it to actually be better in spec to Youtube. Its highly configurable and the backend is also VERY well set out. We'd had problems with FFMPEG installation on our server but these guys had us up and running in 48 hours. Our site is also a busy community for alternative people and runs Jomsocial. There were quite a few functions missing to truly integrate HWD with Jomsocial. However after a few emails Dave from HWD had written us a Jomsocial hack to fully integrate HWD to the front page of Jomsoacial = AWESOME!

An absolutely superb extension that is equaled only by the support you will receive. Many thanks to Davros and the team for the almost instant support, fantastic extension and the best level of service I've experienced from any joomla developer.

Gav

Thanks, Thanks, million times thanks for your unbelievable extension... I am involved more than 4 years with joomla and your componant works great with joomla. You guys deserve all the best.
your hosting company must have FFMPEG for this product to work with.
It is so easy to build youtube alike web site with this product.
here is the web site that I used with this product. http://www.sutube.net