Hey Renat, I've been running Joomla since 2004. Video was not so friendly in 1.0, but it's gotten much better.
I was an early adopter with 1.5 and it was a great move. I've been streaming all kinds of players for some time now and have little issue these days. I think one of the important aspects of joomla development is not using the standard joomla content component for much of anything. I tend to use modules and other components to generate and display my content, and my sites don't really look like Joomla sites because of it. They don't function like them either. Of course the addition of ndeditor switch (turns on and off WYSIWYG editor in admin on the fly), and now the JCE editor have made my life a little bit easier in terms of video and image display. There is also a really promising social network component called JomSocial ( http://jomsocial.com ) that just rocks! I'd love to use brightcove, but they really pissed me off back in the day - they got me excited then totally gave me the brushoff when they made their move ('06/'07) and it left a bad taste in my mouth. Although I do agree, their player and quality is real nice, and the pay to play aspect is good as well, I'm not sure if I'm a big enough fish to get their attention or to pay the hefty fees for their services. I'll check them out again, though. It's been a long time. Ooyala... must take a look at that. Thanks a bunch, Renat. I appreciate your thoughts. Let me know if you want to take a peek at k9athlete.com. I'll give you some temp login creds so you can check it out if you'd like. peace, Ron Watson http://k9athlete.com http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jan 12, 2009, at 11:52 AM, Renat Zarbailov wrote: > Hey Ron, > > I have been running Joomla for Innomind.org site since 2005-2006 or so > and have not yet upgraded to 1.5. Let me tell you about Joomla and > video; This is the worst CMS when it comes to video. The only > embeddable player that works perfectly with Joomla is Brightcove's > (brightcove.com). They just switched to v3. When embedding Blip, > Youtube or any other video hosting sites videos always gave me issues > and I had to come up with workarounds to have blip player play > smoothly. If you want to stay with Joomla for community building > reasons, I suggest to use Brighcove. Its embeddable player/video > lineup interface usability and looks beats any other out of the water, > including Blip's. Too bad they discontinued the free acounts starting > Dec. 17. However, you mentioned that you want to implement > pay/download/view, I know that Brightcove has that feature to offer. > There's another player in the field of online video hosting, it's > called Ooyala, but I haven't played around with embedding it using > Joomla. > > If there's a robust community building plugin for Wordpress, > definitely go with Wordpress then. I, to the tell you the truth, have > been disappointed with the way Joomla handles video, with or without > addition video-enabling plugins. > > Good luck! > > Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.org > > --- In [email protected], Ron Watson <k9d...@...> wrote: > > > > The dreamhost post and an email I received at the same time, > reminded > > me of this thread about Joomla as a video host. I also just > happen to > > be cutting screenshots for a powerpoint presentation. > > > > So... > > Back to the early days of December myfirstmemory was asking about > > video uploading to joomla. > > > > One of the things I mentioned was HWDvideoshare ( http:// > > hwdmediashare.co.uk/ ) . > > > > One of the responses was that it was too ugly to use. > > > > Here's how it wound up looking for me: > > > > http://k9athlete.com/images/stories/devscreenshots/videoplex.jpg > > > > I changed the site back to blue, so I'll have to skin it again, but > > it's real nice looking, I think. > > > > It also does JW player, to whatever specs are available on the > player > > at present. > > > > Perl uploader, mencoder, ffmpeg... it's a pretty nice solution. > > > > I'm still on a shared server, so I've not been able to get it all up > > and running... > > > > It should handle user generated submissions for myfirstmemory and > > will be handling them for my site. > > > > I know it's a little late, a month later and all, but my memory was > > jogged and it was sitting right in front of me. > > > > I think it's worth taking another look at. > > > > Peace, > > > > Ron Watson > > http://k9disc.blip.tv > > http://k9disc.com > > http://discdogradio.com > > http://pawsitivevybe.com > > > > > > > > On Dec 8, 2008, at 3:55 PM, myfirstmemorydotorg wrote: > > > > > Hey there, > > > > > > so you are using JomSocial. > > > Did you also try Community Builder and if so, any feedback? > > > > > > Have you considered having people contribute video, and if so, > how? > > > > > > Cheers, > > > MyFirstMemory.org > > > > > > --- In [email protected], Ron Watson <k9disc@> wrote: > > > > > > > > Joomla as Video Portal > > > > --- > > > > Here's something that I don't know if any of you know about. > > > > http://hwdmediashare.co.uk > > > > > > > > From the website: > > > > > > > > "hwdVideoShare is a powerful video gallery for Joomla that > allows > > > you > > > > to display video media in an organised and managable layout > on the > > > > Internet. hwdVideoShare can handle the uploading, server-side > > > > processing and playback of large video media in all popular > > > formats. " > > > > > > > > I'm looking at this for the 'large project' I've been talking > about > > > > for the last year or so, but it's an alpha release right now, > and > > > the > > > > current styling is not very good. The developer seems to be the > > > bomb, > > > > though, he's making it happen real quick and has a great > reputation > > > > for delivering outstanding support very quickly. From what I can > > > see, > > > > that's an understatement. > > > > > > > > I'm not sure which direction I'm going to go, but this is a > > > possibility. > > > > > > > > There is also a real nice video tool for joomla, called All > Videos > > > > Reloaded: http://allvideos.fritz-elfert.de/ > > > > > > > > Very cool stuff. > > > > > > > > Joomla is becoming much more robust, and is really starting to > > > > embrace media and social networking. > > > > > > > > Check out my old standard: http://k9disc.com . > > > > > > > > If you goto Main Menu>Connect>Disc Dog Cantina to see a brand > > > > spankin' new Social Networking component, JomSocial, in action. > > > > > > > > I think it looks pretty slick and has been well received by > the disc > > > > dog community. > > > > > > > > I'm not real happy with the organizational structure, but I'm > about > > > > ready to wrap it into that 'large project'. > > > > > > > > More on the 'large project' > > > > --- > > > > I'm in the process of creating a dog sport community, not unlike > > > > k9disc.com - but BIGGER - that will feature pay to play > > > instructional > > > > video, a facebook-esque social network, affiliate vendor > support, > > > and > > > > online magazine. > > > > > > > > If anyone is interested in discussing Joomla as a media/social > > > > network platform, I'd be happy to engage in that > conversation. I've > > > > been buried in the application for a few months now, and have > a lot > > > > of information to share. > > > > > > > > I think Joomla has been overlooked and is under-appreciated > > > > application by this community, and would really like to see a > little > > > > focus put on it by some of you serious video geeks. > > > > > > > > I sure could use someone to bounce ideas off of. > > > > > > > > peace, > > > > Ron Watson > > > > http://k9disc.blip.tv > > > > http://k9disc.com > > > > http://discdogradio.com > > > > http://pawsitivevybe.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
