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 videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, 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 videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, 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] >
