News & articles
White screen of death on Joomla
Last Updated on Friday, 30 September 2011 11:29
If you get the white screen of death when trying to display private streaming video, it is almost certain that you lack the toolkit OpenSSL on your server or it might not be enabled.
Test HD switching with streaming video
Last Updated on Sunday, 01 May 2011 08:52
Here we are testing a new beta feature called HD switching. The player switches from a low resolution video to a HD version. In this case we use streaming because the video picks up where it left in the low resolution version, which is only possible with streaming.
How to set a S3 bucket to private streaming on Mac
Last Updated on Monday, 27 September 2010 08:43
View the video tutorial below to learn how to transform an S3 bucket into a private streaming CloudFront distribution. That's quite a mouthful of complicated words, but trust me on this, it is very easy to accomplish.
For this purpose, we use CrossFTP, one of the only S3 clients capable of setting private streaming for CloudFront distribution on BOTH Mac and Windows. I tested many applications on Mac and most of them simply don't cut it at this time of writing.
Read more: How to set a S3 bucket to private streaming on Mac
testpage
Last Updated on Thursday, 10 February 2011 22:53
Example of a regular playlist (for future use)
How to set file permissions on S3 Amazon
Last Updated on Sunday, 11 April 2010 03:30
In this video tutorial we show you how to set permissions for your audio and video on S3 Amazon and/or CloudFront. However, you can set permissions for any file you like. You need an application to do that and we recommend using CloudBerry S3 Explorer as it is the most versatile application at this time of writing. The application is freeware and you can download it here.
How to create a skin for JW Player
Last Updated on Tuesday, 06 April 2010 10:40 Written by Rudolf Boogerman
Below you can see the skin elements of of the control bar. As you can see, they consist of small images which you can easily change. The best way to start a skin is by copying an existing one. In the installation zip (s3mediapro.zip) is a folder called: skins and in that folder is a sub folder called Beelden. I used that one as a basis for Polished Metal, included in this module.
How to use TimedText for subtitling
Last Updated on Monday, 29 March 2010 12:09
TimedText is quite simple. It is a straightforward XML file and it has the begin time, end time and the sentence to display. These are enclosed by a paragraph tag (HTML) per subtitle line. Below you see an example of a subtitling with the video below it.
How to create Closed Captions using TimedText
Last Updated on Monday, 29 March 2010 12:01
Closed caption works like subtitling explained in How to use TimedText for subtitling, but difference is that you are required to indicate sounds and music in the back- or foreground with square brackets. You use the TimedText format for this, which is quite easy to do.
How to create a Related Playlist for JW Player
Last Updated on Monday, 29 March 2010 12:00
Play lists and Related play lists are created with a simple XML file.It has a title, a thumbnail and the path to the media. Here we explain how to make this work with the JW Player by Longtail, used in our S3Media Pro extension for Joomla!
How to add modules in an article
Last Updated on Monday, 12 April 2010 19:30
Here we show you how to use the loadposition feature of Joomla to place modules in an article instead of standalone in a designated position on the site. This is very handy for Media modules because you can show more then one video or audio in an article.
