Hello,

I've tried to find the answer in the forum and haven't been able to figure it out.  I want to embed allvideos plugin in tabs like I see on the demo site and all I get when I try is the syntax.  I happen to be using TabsManager GK2 because it matches the look of my site so well.  I've tried using all three plugins, with no success.  Is there xHTML code that I need to use?  I'm able to show all the content of my articles, but just the syntax of the video...no video.  Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks!
Mickey

hi mickey, seems u the one replying today.
could u teach us newbie how to get this thing works? after installing it.
the documentation for this plugin..is not really a documentation i think...
a documentation is about a manuals or step by step guides, but all i see is tags to use only haha...  :P

I tried TabsManager GK2 and entered {flv}file1{/flv}  inside custom tab and it did not work.

{flv}file1{/flv}  works insdie individual articles, but not in tabs.

Hello,

I have had the same issue trying to use the gavick tabs extensions to display videos directly into tabs. Here is the workaround i found:

1- create a simple article and insert your video: example for FLV --> {flv}yourvideoname{/flv}
2- Publish the article and hit preview from admin
3- Display the code source of your page and find the code which looks like this:

<!-- JoomlaWorks "AllVideos" Plugin (v2.5.3) starts here -->
<span class="allvideos">
<span style="width:300px;height:240px;" class="allvideos_player" title="JoomlaWorks AllVideos Player">
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" style="width:300px;height:240px;" data="www.yourdomain.com/plugins/content/jw_allvideos/players/mediaplayer_4.0.46.swf">
<param name="movie" value="www.yourdomain.com/plugins/content/jw_allvideos/players/mediaplayer_4.0.46.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />

<param name="bgcolor" value="" />
<param name="autoplay" value="false" />
<param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" />

<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" />
<param name="flashvars" value="file=http://www.yourdomain.com/images/stories/videos/yourvideo.flv&image=http://www.yourvideo.com/images/stories/videos/yourvideo.jpg&autostart=false&fullscreen=true" />
</object>
</span>
</span>
<!-- JoomlaWorks "AllVideos" Plugin (v2.5.3) ends here -->

4- COPY ALL the statement (beware to check the paths, above is an example)

5- Go back to your back-end and open COMPONENTS/Gavick Tabs Manager

6- Create a TAB MIX (mix is very important) Group

7- Add a new Tab giving it the name you want

8- In tab content, you can chosse between "Article" "module" and "other" --> choose Other

9- in the last part "Content (allow html") PASTE all the text you copied from source code into the box

10- Again RECHECK the Paths in the code, this is very importatnt

11- Save and test the display in front-end (you only have one tab right now)

12- If display is ok, you can go on creating new tabs by going trough the same process from step 5

13- Beware that for new tabs you don't have to create a new article and copy the source, you just have to copy the first source code you used and replace the name of the video and preview in the code:

<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" />
<param name="flashvars" value="file=http://www.yourdomain.com/images/stories/videos/yourvideo.flv&image=http://www.yourvideo.com/images/stories/videos/yourvideo.jpg&autostart=false&fullscreen=true" />

Becomes

<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" />
<param name="flashvars" value="file=http://www.yourdomain.com/images/stories/videos/yourvideo2.flv&image=http://www.yourdomain.com/images/stories/videos/yourvideo2.jpg&autostart=false&fullscreen=true" />

Again, check the correct path for you: i have created a "videos" folder into "stories" but you can name it tha way you like.

As for the jpeg preview, i made a screen capture of the first image of the video and export it in .jpg format in the same folder as the FLV file.

Hope this will help. Enjoy...