Dear all,

My current Joomla is installed in a subdirectory:
/home/mysite/public_html/joom/

and hence the default media directory of AllVideos Plugin is in:
/home/mysite/public_html/joom/images/stories/video/
/home/mysite/public_html/joom/images/stories/audio/

My question is how to change them to:
/home/mysite/public_html/joomFiles/video/
/home/mysite/public_html/joomFiles/audio/


My purpose is to separate codings from large images and multimedia files (i.e. audio and video files) -- This keeps joomla codings remains slim and easy to backup at regular intervals!

Thanks for any kind of helps!

Rgds,

Hi Fotis!

I wish that the video and audio directory can be specified out of the Joomla's root directory, that is anywhere under "public_html"

In my case, I install joomla in a sub-folder,
e.g. public_html/joom

and I hope that I can specify the media file directories in,
e.g. public_html/joomFiles/video
and  public_html/joomFiles/audio

Before you release next version which is configurable in this manner, how can I hack the code to achieve this purpose?
.....just replace all paths in "plugin_jw_allvideos.php" with my exact site paths,
e.g www.mysite.com/joomFiles/video    ??
and www.mysite.com/joomFiles/audio    ??

Would you mind tell me which line(s) of "plugin_jw_allvideos.php" should I work on?

Thanks for any kinds of help!

ok!

mp3 if audio
flv if video

Looking Forwards to hearing from you soon for the info. of the hack!

Thanks!

I am running 2.4 and have an issue when trying to view a video outside my public_html path.

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I notice the above quote in this thread:
"BTW there is an alternative. Use the "remote" tags to directly embed any video/audio file located anywhere on your server. Don't forget to read documentation for that.

The upcoming version of the plugin will be more "configurable" in such matters."

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I have tried to point to a path on my server that is outside my public_html directory, specifically "/videos/".  I am trying to use the remote tag like this

{swfremote}/videos/foo.swf{/swfremote}

I then try to view page and get a blank screen where the video should be.  I look at the source of the page and it all looks correct...

<param name=\"movie\" value=\"/videos/fm_foo.swf\" />  <param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" />  ... <embed src=\"/videos/fm_foo.swf\" ...

I notice my server errors show:

[Mon Jan 28 10:41:22 2008] [error] [client 75.178.77.85] File does not exist: /home/[sitenameremoved]/public_html/portal/404.shtml
[Mon Jan 28 10:41:22 2008] [error] [client 75.178.77.85] File does not exist: /home/[sitenameremoved]/public_html/portal/videos/fm_backtrack.swf

Note:/public_html/portal is the root of the joomla portal... So I ask, why is Joomla overwriting my directory path and prepending the joomla site path to it?

Ideas?
Allen