I spoke with Katia earlier.  She put a youtube video on my site and it worked fine.  I have put a video up using .flv .mpg and .mp4 with no results other than a blank black screen.  Finally, loaded jwplayer and it says the file does not exist.  I uploaded the video using FTP into the public html/images/video file.  In the back end the video shows up in the media manager file.  Am I doing something wrong?  I am beyond stumped.  Please help I need this to work.

Make sure you are pointing to your video library. In the adminstration panel of Joomla go to plug-in manager and open the plug-in for allvideos. On the right under options there is a section for Video Parameters. The first option is "Local Video Folder". That is where you would put your videos. Let's say you have your videos under images. If that is the case then "Local Video Folder" would only have the word "images" in it. In my case, I have a subfolder called videos. In that case the "Local Video Folder" says "images/videos".

In that folder I might put a video called myvideo.flv

To insert this I would write {flv}myvideo{/flv}

I could also add subfolders. Let's say I put a sub folder in images/videos called "boating" and in the subfolder I add a video called "first_outing.flv".

To insert this I would write {flv}boating/first_outing{/flv}

If you have the folder setup correctly in the plug-in we would have to look somewhere else.

Yes, that is how mine is setup.  I posted my videos just like you typed there.  What do we look at next?

Ok, found one problem had a capitol letter in my file path.  So, now the player shows up correct and when I hit play the chevron just spins and the line across the bottom moves, but no video!  Please someone help.

Glad you found it!

What file format are you trying to use? If it is flv there shouldn't be a problem but if it is mp4 you might have the wrong codec for it.

Ok, uploaded it in wmv format and it plays.  Guess the mp4 was like you said.

Good news.

This is the documentation for the current version of allvideos. The codec for mp4 has to be H.264 video. There are some conversion utilities available - some free - some not. You might look into AVs4U. That isn't free but pretty inexpensive for everything it does. I am not affliated with them, I just use it from time to time. You can certainly Google up some free options as well.

www.joomlaworks.net/content/view/35/41/