I've got a good 5 Gig or more of video and audio content which is displayed through the Joomla site using AllVideos (and I am eternally grateful to have this plugin).  For a number of reasons including lack of space, I need to shift the storage of the media files to an additional (external) server.

Say if the site is called www.website.com, then the new storage server would ideally be configured to appear at media.website.com or video.website.com via the DNS.  Hope that this makes sense.

One option that is available would be to run a script through the database for the Joomla install and change all the plugin references from local media to fully qualified (http:// etc.) remote media.  Two problems immediately come to mind: (a) the video preview image function doesn't happen when this is used, and (b) the changing of references with a script could get really icky without even trying.

My preferred method would be to have functionality such that I can specify a fully qualified beginning to an "internal" reference.

Currently the video files on this site are played from www.website.com/video and to achieve this I have "video" specified in the "Video parameters" in the plugin.

What I would like to do is to be able to put in something like media.website.com/video in to this parameter field and have internal media references append the specified /directory/filename variable to complete the functioning URL in the usual manner.

This would enable me to not only use an additional server (one with lots of space  ;) ), but also to have the preview image function still working.

All advice greatly appreciated.

Andrew Smith

Nobody knows the answer to this one?

Andrew

Did you figure this out?
I've been having trouble with an swf video player I created that uses xml to read the video. But I can't get it to work in joomla.
I wanted to try this allvideos plugin but don't want the same problem.
Is there a way of uploading the video to my media manager file if the videos are over 10m?

Hi tortillera,

I haven't got a solution for this one yet, but I have spoken to a friend of mine who feels that it could be a simple update to the code (that bit that generates the fully formed http address for the served page).

Unfortunatelym he hasn't had time to sit down and have a good look at it.  When I do have a solution, I'll post the details here for all otheres to benefit from.

As for files larger than 10Mb, I'd definitely FTP 'em.  I tend to use FTP b default anyway.

Apart from my "growing pains" issue, it's a gregat player and definitely well worth it.  Though that JW watermarked logo does get annoying, but I digress ...

Andrew

Still no update on this.  It seems a trivial thing to do for a programmer, but it requires a knowledge of the Zen framework as well as the Joomla API / framework ... which raises the bar a tad.

I'll update again if I can get anything happening.

Andrew

I tested to play videos from an external server in Joomla 1.5.15 with AllVideos Reloaded and it workes fine with the code below.
It will show a start image and play the video linked form another server.
I hope that this helped :)

Hi Jakerlund,

I'm using the regular "AllVideos" plugin v3.0 in Joomla 1.5.15 and those extra code bits don't work.

Also, the bigger problem that I have is that I really don't want to have to go and manually edit the coding tags for the hundreds of existing video files that are now on the external server.

If I could just edit what the "local server" was considered to be by the plugin, I'd be thrilled.

Thanks anyway.

Andrew

Hi Jakerlund,

I'm using the regular "AllVideos" plugin v3.0 in Joomla 1.5.15 and those extra code bits don't work.

Also, the bigger problem that I have is that I really don't want to have to go and manually edit the coding tags for the hundreds of existing video files that are now on the external server.

If I could just edit what the "local server" was considered to be by the plugin, I'd be thrilled.

Thanks anyway.

Andrew

thanks for sharing this ...