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its a good extension, but when trying to set no embed it stops playing video and just gives error at frontend, bought support package from the company, but support initially gave replies at after many hours, not good at support they are, so i would advise to keep using it for free and dont go for support package buying, they dont reply truly in time, also the extension requires lots of things on server like mencoder, flvtool etc, even after configured all things well, it errors out sometimes

This is just an impeccable bit of code, how they do it, I dont know.

But they have worked out every single nook and cranny to ensure you run a smooth online business.

Just amazing.

Seriously, the peeps at videoshare are truly outstanding to give this away for free, but I think everyone who uses this seriously should pay their way, I cant imagine how many hours go into building something of this nature, yes It is something from Biblical texts!

You have opened up many doors for me to live the life I want, I thank you with my deepest grattitude. Thank you my friends.

Although there is a slight learning curve to get the best out of it I absolutely love component. I bought one of the templates and it really does make it a lot easier. Would love to see some dark colored templates soon. Great Job

These are very helpful people. The software is good exactly as described and the support is priceless. These are good people to work with. We are very pleased with the support and tools we have received.

It is not bad. I gave it some trial goes. In fact it failed to install couple of times and it did install on j1.7 after downloading it as a part of a free template from somewhere (can't really remember where).
I fail to understand why people don't just remove the banner from the player instead of complaining about it. The plugin is under GPLv2 so you can modify it the way you want.

The extension does what it says it does, however, it seems like the good people at HMD just don't have time for this product anymore. There's no support unless you pay, and I for one cannot see why one would pay money for what little extra a subscription would do for you. In short, if you want a quick video extension, this will work. However, if you want something a bit more with active support & guidance, I think you can do better. Just my opinion, I'm relatively new to site building too :)

Installed easily on Joomla 1.7 and was easy to implement. Other video extensions I tried didn't have the features found in hwdvideoshare. There is great documentation for helping with setup and for things needed on the hosting server. I did have one minor issue with a couple of buttons which turned out to be a conflict with my joomla template, but there is great support which helped resolve the issue. The component does what it says.

I have paid for extensions and gotten terrible support. This free extension is excellent! I received top notch support even though i only got the free version. Everything works smooth and the setup is quite easy. Thanks guys, very much appreciated!

First and foremost I found this extension to be feature rich and nicely laid out. It appeared to be the answer I was looking for. But found there are bugs significant support issues. After trying to install this extension several times two of them clean installs and still having the same problems. I looked through what documentation was available and forums as well but seemed short on answers so I decided not to go ahead with this extension. Would love to use it, would glasdly pay for it and recomend it (if working) but I suggest before that the developers take SMF support success into consideration and Social Engine's Trail period format into account as a blueprint for success. Might prove to be an aid in a great deal more success for this exstension in the future which would enclude greater revenues to the developers. Thanks guys keep working on it, I will keep an eye on future fixes and releases then maybe, just maybe.

This component is great, I have used it before so know that. But on this install it caused a continuous server process which my hosters thought was a virus so shut my site down. Now I can't acces the forum to ask how to change this (which I think is a wget issue) so I think twice on using it, if it doesn't work now I am reticent to pay to fix something that doesn't work at the moment. I can't even message them to say this to them :-? So please guys, open the support to the none commercial customers and maybe restrict more stuff to paying customers or create a time scale where it shuts down.... I would be much happier to try it out for a month get it 100% working then pay a bit more than the £30 you want (maybe £50) for something that know fits my bill
totally.

Other than that this is an amazing component and if you install and all is well then great, it's only if you have issues that you have issues.

Jools

As far as the component goes, it seems very nice. A word of warning for those using this though, support is not free on this, so if you have a problem (like with me with description box not showing on upload page)then you will have to pay or spend a long time trying to fix the issue.

For the lack of support for basic issues I cannot rate this higher.

One of the best video extensions around. It's great to see the developer continuing to support this extension and improve on it. The admin of this extension is very extensive, but is bordering on becoming a little complicated. The best feature I find with this extension is it plays external site videos like youtube, locally uploaded video .flv files and also your .swf flash movies. Only thing is the .swf can push righthand modules out of position. I fixed this by placing the player in a table.
Overall it's a fairly easy to run extension out of the box.

The current version that is suppose to work with J16 doesn't seem to properly support Access Control Levels.

I have custom groups for users and while testing I set them to only be able to access the "Front-end video gallery" and that is it but I can log in with those accounts and see options to delete / edit / unpublish the videos odd thing is Delete & Edit both report that you don't have permission to do those actions even though you can see the icons for them BUT unpublish does work it reports that the video has been un-published and it actually unpublishes the video when I check it in the backend of the site I can't figure-out how to stop everyone whos logged in from being able to unpublish any video making this worthless to me right now :-/

**Very Frustrating** seems there is a setting or something missing in the ACCESS options? or it is buried cause I've been looking it over for hours and still can't get it to stop showing those options and allowing anyone logged in to unpublish any video and I can't access the forums to post can only view topics and was unable to find this issue solved in there.

This seems to be a great extension. However, there is a problem with uploading big files, and there is no instruction on how to manage this issue.

I have tried php.ini, did not work. I have tried Perl method, does not work because you have to have an older version of hwdvideoshare like 2.1.5. So how do you solve this problem?

Fantastic, easy to use component. Very well thought out from both a user's and administrative perspective. Highly recommended to add interactivity and return visits to a website. As good as the component is, the support is even better. I had a few little tweaks and many questions. Dave addressed everything quickly and thoroughly. This component added tremendous value to my website. Thanks so much!

Two facts I don't like about this component:

Installation on a dedicated server is in reality the way to go. On a shared server you can only upload .flv files, even without using the conversion functionality, since my ISP deactivated file conversion due to high server loads. Should be pointed out more clearly, not only in docs, as it can save you time and disappointment.

Most annoying is the fact that you have to pay a hefty subscription fee to receive a language file other than English which is included. Highwood Design states:

The hwdVideoShare video sharing gallery is an non-commercial open source (GNU GPL) video sharing Joomla extension.

This is partly true, but only for their English speaking fans. Which is a smart decision as they located in the UK surrounded by many foreign languages. A language file is the last you expect to pay for as they are in fact often contributed by users.

Restricting private use that far is in my opinion not a smart decision. Creating non-commercial versions and charging for necessary plugins seems to be the new trend. User beware!

Great component. Elegantly designed and works very much out of the box. The administration backend has plenty of useful functions and is clear and easy to use. Installation instructions, including those at the server level are very complete and maintained.

I used it for a commercial site and worked without a glitch. Some in these reviews complain about the fact that updates are not free of charge but price is reasonable for the amount of work behind this component.

Certainly recommended.

I needed to do a fast Broadcasting awards entry site. So at the heart of the awards engine, I needed a robust all inclusive video handler / converter. I tried them all. Ive been a Joomla designer for years, and there are the ones which work and the ones you mess with. This one is insanely powerful...and up and running for free. A modest fee gets you a host of extra stuff, but nothing that is needed to complete the full on function of the componant. It also gives you great tech support. As long as you can deal with the time zone delay, you can depend that a ticket submitted in the evening (US) will be answered by the next morning, and answered well. The server-side conversion has not hiccupped once, and it handles 3000-4000 videos in a few days. Fantastic!

Simply one of the best extensions in Joomla, and the best bar none to create a Joomla video gallery. I've used hwdVideoShare and its little brother hwdPhotoShare in more that ten sites and could not be happier. I also run some several big non-Joomla video sites so I know what I'm talking about.

I evaluated other video galleries for Joomla in the past and I regret not going for hwdVideoShare in the first place, as alternatives only proved to be pricey time wasters.

Not being able to post in the forum piss me off a bit, but when I bumped into any issue during my first steps I contacted the developers and they gave me a response within 24 hours, which is remarkable.

If I had to say something negative about the component is that the default template don't look sexy enough with my favourite Joomla templates. If the design was fancier I would rate it as 6 stars.

I bet that webmasters who have published harsh reviews in JED about this extension don't really understand what FREE is (this extension is both free as both free and open source), and never took the time to check if their server met the minimum requirements to run a video gallery or even read the documentation.

Kudos to the hwdVideoShare team for this great component!

I gave Excellent mark, because I saw demo, for a free componenet this is very impresive... however this component is not work well. In my case I have problem with YouTube, when I click on posted video in frontend paffff error 500 is there.. Reading forums I see that many people have same problem. Support is not free, and this is ok for additional thing but if I need support just to get component work and need to pay for that, then this component IS NOT FREE!!!!