Chaos - YOU ROCK MAN!  Damn, all this time, the player supported background images, it was just missing the image= line... that's kind of annoying.

I noticed that most still images of videos are just as good quality but about 80% smaller in JPG format than in PNG format, and I tried replacing the '.png' in the code Chaos gave us with '.jpg', and it works!  This is great!

chaos for president. Thanks a lot  :D

Hello

It is a little confusing as what must be changed on line 57.

Perhaps someone can post the code for the changed line 57 ??

It would make this newbie's life easier...

???
Strange,.. I needed to modify line 58! not 57, working like a charm. THANKS...

Sorry but for me it is not a great solution for the "start image" problem...

This code changes insert an image in the background, but it is not the "preview frame" like youtube or others...

It dosen't seem to work for me  :(
I insert my videos with the {flvremote} tag and they are placed in tabs with the tabs in content plugins.

I also noticed that my code is slightly different thatn the one presented in tis tutorial (I am using the 2.4 version):

I have "&showdigits=true".$autostart."\" />" instead of "$showdigits=true".$autostart."\""

Any idea how to make it work

Hi,
I use AllVideo Plugin version 2.5.2 with Joomla 1.5.5.

I can not find the file "plugin_jw_allvideos.php".

Can somebody help me please??

Thanks

Is there an update of this method for the newest All Videos Plugin for 1.5?

:(  Hi!  I'm also looking for how to make a preview image appear for the latest version of this great plugin.  Please help!  Thanks so much!  :)

Hello there,

I'm also trying to add the code, but can't find the appropiate spot to do that. I've been searching the forums for several hours now and just don't know what to do to make an image show up before starting the video.

I attached the .php. Help is very much appreciated!!!!!!!!!!! :'(

Hi guys,
Thank you so much for this discussion.
I've done it well.
Please follow my tutorials :

I used this version : plg_jw_allvideos-v2.5.4_j1.5.zip

.So, this is the updated one.
If you check the folder jw_allvideos/jw_allvideos_sources.php , Open jw_allvideos_sources.php, you will see at .flv option, line 27 :

"<param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"file=$mosConfig_live_site/{VFOLDER}/{AVSOURCE}.flv&image=$mosConfig_live_site/{VFOLDER}/{AVSOURCE}.jpg&autostart={AUTOPLAY}{CONTROLBAR}&fullscreen=true\" />
</object>"

Just look at them carefully.

And check your directory in joomla/images/stories/videos/yourvideonameX.flv and the images you want to show off the video is the same name as your video , for example :

yourvideonameX.jpg

If you want to change .png, you have to edit/adjust that 27. line , replace .jpg by .png.

Here you are :

"<param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"file=$mosConfig_live_site/{VFOLDER}/{AVSOURCE}.flv&image=$mosConfig_live_site/{VFOLDER}/{AVSOURCE}.png&autostart={AUTOPLAY}{CONTROLBAR}&fullscreen=true\" />"

And your image will be : yourvideonameX.png

.. . Hope, you will done well. I tried to write with red color so that you will easily understand well.
Good job ! :)