Setting Up Video Galleries

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Goal

Primary objective of this article is to explain how to enable, and configure video galleries at your site. Please read it completely to understand all available options

Accessing the configuration options

Navigate to site backend, and from Components dropdown menu, select JomSocial->Configuration

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Locate the Photo Gallery settings and make sure that Video galleries are enabled (they are enabled by default)

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Other Options Explained

  • Allow guest to perform search videos - Can guest visitors search videos?.
  • Enable profile videos - Allow users to select a video for their profile page
  • Enable videos upload - Enable or disable the videos uploading feature in JomSocial.
  • Video creation limit - Set a limit to creation of videos per user. 0 for unlimited
  • Show Video Map = Wither to show video map by default
  • Delete original videos - If enabled, original videos are deleted once the videos are converted to the appropriate formats.
  • Videos root folder - Set the path to where videos are stored.
  • Maximum upload size - Set the maximum uploaded video size allowed in Megabytes (MB)
  • Path to FFMPEG - Set the absolute path to FFMPEG binary. If the binary is not found, JomSocial will not be able to convert videos into .flv formats.
  • FLVTool2 Path - Set the absolute path to FLVTool2 binary to enable flash video metadata injections.
  • Video Quantizer Scale - Select the video quality from a scale of 1 (Excellent) to 31 (Worst). 5, 9 and 11 are recommended settings.
  • Videos Size - Set the video frame size in width X height format.
  • Custom Command - Specify additional commands for FFMPEG ( Advanced Users )
  • Pseudo streaming - Allow users to skip to specific section of the video.
  • Video Debugging - Enable or disable video debugging mode

Additional Video options

In template settings

Default JomSocial templates have option to show latest videos on frontpage to public or registered members as well as hiding it completely.
Please navigate to Components->JomSocial->Templates and open the template that is currently in use at the site
locate this option

  • Show recent videos - This option control the visibility of recent videos box on frontpage

In Layout Settings

Navigate back to JomSocial Configuration and find the Frontpage options under layout Pane

  • Frontpage Recent Videos - is an option which will determine how many recent videos will be shown in the Latest Videos box on frontpage.
Note on Latest Videos box

This area only show videos that are marked with Public privacy option.

In Anti Spam settings

Under Anti Spam pane in jomSocial configuration, you can set how many videos users can link or upload daily.