Configuration

Configuration of jVideoDirect is also designed to be very user friendly. Every option is explained with a comment next to it, so we won't explain too much here. However, there are some tricky part that worth to be mentioned here

How to place modules in jVideoDirect?
As jVideoDirect is written for Joomla, Joomla way of doing it is good for most of the layouts in jVideoDirect except for the main page, video playback page and feature listing page (e.g. page to view recent, popular video and etc...).
This is a common problem in Joomla. jVideoDirect has solved this by adding template position into those few pages so that you may place any modules into those pages.

Positions available
Position label indicated in the layout model is the suffix of the module position.

The preset module position is in below format
jvd_<page>_<position suffix>

Available module positions are listed below in green.

 

Preparing template positions
there are two ways to do it.

  1. add below template positions in templateDetails.xml, you will be able to choose a specific position from the list.
    This file can be located at
    joomla / templates / YOUR TEMPLATE / templateDetail.xml

    add  below in green before </positions>

            <position>jvd_play_top1</position>   
            <position>jvd_play_top2</position>       
            <position>jvd_play_topwide1</position>   
            <position>jvd_play_topwide2</position>           
            <position>jvd_play_bottom1</position>
            <position>jvd_play_bottom2</position>               
            <position>jvd_play_bottomwide1</position>
            <position>jvd_play_bottomwide2</position>       
            <position>jvd_play_left</position>
            <position>jvd_play_right</position>   

            <position>jvd_sort_top1</position>   
            <position>jvd_sort_top2</position>       
            <position>jvd_sort_topwide1</position>   
            <position>jvd_sort_topwide2</position>           
            <position>jvd_sort_bottom1</position>
            <position>jvd_sort_bottom2</position>           
            <position>jvd_sort_bottomwide1</position>
            <position>jvd_sort_bottomwide2</position>       
            <position>jvd_sort_left</position>
            <position>jvd_sort_right</position>       

            <position>jvd_main_bottom1</position>   
            <position>jvd_main_bottom2</position>   
            <position>jvd_main_left</position>   
            <position>jvd_main_right</position>   
     
  2. just type in the specific location as you need it.

     

How short can video, channel and group url be?
With the use of 

  1. Joomla SEO settings.
  2. menu alias

url can be very short.

The best setting is simply set Search Engine Friendly URLs and Use Apache mod_rewrite to Yes at
admin > site > global configuration
and you have assigned jVideoDirect component as home in your site.

You will be able to achieve below results.
for video:

  • <domain>?v=<video id>
    e.g. http://jvideodirect.com?v=Nx7hAXn1uI1SF

for channel:

  • <domain>?c=<channel name assigned by user>
    e.g. http://jvideodirect.com?c=channelname

for group:

  • <domain>?g=<group name assigned by user>
    e.g. http://jvideodirect.com?g=groupname

 

If jVideoDirect is not set to home, you can specify jVideoDirect component with any alias say "video" in main menu.

You will be able to achieve below results.
for video:

  • <domain>/video?v=<video id>
    e.g. http://jvideodirect.com/video?v=Nx7hAXn1uI1SF

for channel:

  • <domain>/video?c=<channel name assigned by user>
    e.g. http://jvideodirect.com/video?c=channelname

for group:

  • <domain>/video?g=<group name assigned by user>
    e.g. http://jvideodirect.com/video?g=groupname