Hi there..

Really nice looking component I'm making a videosite and i wounder if you guys can answer my questions about if this is the video gallery for me..

I don't need any channel functions or stuff like that.. I only need to make a video site with HD and SD videos..

1. I make both the HD and SD version of the movies locally on my video editing computer in .mp4 (h.264) format so my server doesn't have to do all the hard work. Can i upload manually and use them so the users can switch from SD to HD by clicking the HD icon underneath the player? Can i still have it to extract the thimbnails and things like that?



2. About the user access. I only want the registered users to have access to the videos. Would be nice if they could see the gallery but not play the movies. So they get excited and become members Is any of this possible?



3. Whats about the security for videofiles? Is it in anyway possible for users outside my site to get to the videos by typing in the exact adress? Hotlinking, .htaccess protection and so on?

I must say that the backend of your component looks awesome, best one i ever seen

Thanks in advance!

Ha Ha....I like to answer good questions

I make both the HD and SD version of the movies locally on my video editing computer in .mp4 (h.264) format so my server doesn't have to do all the hard work. Can i upload manually and use them so the users can switch from SD to HD by clicking the HD icon underneath the player? Can i still have it to extract the thimbnails and things like that?

The purpose of jvd is to ease video posting for any users.
Assume that you are using a server with ffmpeg,mencoder and flvtool2. ffmpeg and mencoder both support x264.

As administrator, what you need to do is to define what is SD and HD. Then you need to tell jvd what is available on your site. jvd offered 4 modes. 1. SD only, 2. HD only, 3. both HD and SD 4. Smart mode.... for Smart mode, SD will always be available. However, availability of HD depends on rather or not the spec of the source video reach your definition as HD.
To manually, upload videos and have everything in place. It is very troublesome.
Better still, upload the video and let the system do the conversion, you can use batch upload in admin area.

About the user access. I only want the registered users to have access to the videos. Would be nice if they could see the gallery but not play the movies. So they get excited and become members Is any of this possible?

Simply, define jvd as registered user only in joomla menu will do the trick. you can also use any of our module especially the video listing modules to attract them in the front page.

Whats about the security for videofiles? Is it in anyway possible for users outside my site to get to the videos by typing in the exact address? Hotlinking, .htaccess protection and so on

Thank you for allow me to express security of jvd...
1. Go to any pages of demo.jvideodirect.com and view source, you cannot even find the shadow of the physical video filenames.
2. video files are stored under userid as directory name followed by a 30 digits of random alphanumeric as physical filename (forgot the number of digits should be between 25-30) and about approx 13 random alphanumeric as video name to refer to.
3. All video loaded into player via xml store in memory.

4. Of course, if you know the path and the filename, you can download it. We can download youtube video and from other 3rd parties platform. You can too, if you use jvd. But we make it difficult to do so. May be we can also hide it behind Public folder, but not in this version may be next one.

In terms of hotlinking ... hmm, if allow embeding is kind of hotlinking, then you can switch it off.

Back to your 1st question, i think you will find it troublesome to do it manually

Damn.. that was a quick answer Answered my questions well..

Yes, my server system supports everything. It's my own server so if somethings not supported i'll make it supported

Okey, but can i upload, say the HD Version and just have the server to convert it to a SD version and keep the original HD version without conversion? in that way my server don't have to convert both modes and i save a lot of processor work time. Because my HD versions of the videos are exactly as i want them to be

I must say, this looks really good for me.. Been struggling with HwdVideoShare before but i didn't like the layout nor the config in the backend. Then i bought a subscription for JomTube because that one looks really nice in the front end BUT the support.. Hmm, they can't do anything right never been so disappointed over a subscription before.. I think they try to do something they are not skilled to do and let the users PAY for it.

I can say that if support comes at this speed here with you guys i buy a supscription right away I love the ide of having 2 versions for the videos and not have to make one category for HD material and one for Low quality..

What about the timeframe and future for this project/component? I see you are new on the "market".. Full time project or part time?

Thank you!!

Well, thank you for the appreciation of jvd. This is a full time project. You can subscribe for a plan with support and use support center to open a ticket. This way we won't miss any of them. When this forum get crowded, we won't be able to support very often through forum. Only subscribers with support will get first class support.

To answer your first question, No, the server will need to process HD too inorder to line up with other details. You can have an option to keep original or delete original.

In terms of current version, we still have lots of room to improve. e.g. usability, we need feedback from users ...

We don't compare with others, even today if you are the best, one day other may be better than you. So we just do our best and hoping other people will appreciate. At the end of the day, jvd has launched only 7 days.

In terms of support, well don't expect 24 hours. But as long as anyone of us is awake, we check emails. Can't live without email.

We have great plan on this jvd, this is not an end. What you see is only the beginning. Many exciting features and addons will be roll out one by one, stay tune ... ( we're not allow to disclose them yet )

Setting up a video server for some people is difficult enough don't you think? Well, their pain is our pain. we should let the pain cure before starting another.

Okey

Thank you.. I'll try to upload some videos for testing so i can determine how long it takes to convert and so on..

Keep up the good work guys