Reference Guide
The Joomla! XTC Seyret Video Wall module enhances your site with incredible power to display Seyret Videos with your custom CSS and HTML in a module position. Choose videos by Category, Featured, Author, Random, Most Rated, Highest Views, Latest and other criteria and display them with your own templates limited only by your imagination. Its the perfect tool for developers with custom styles in mind. The module can display articles in rows, columns and grids as well as special scrolling and fader effects for sliders and transitions.
Installation
Install the module via the Joomla! 1.5 Installer.
Usage
The Seyret Video Wall module is an advanced Seyret for Joomla! that enables you to customize not only the listing attributes, but the overall markup of the module contents. Knowledge of CSS or HTML is required, but you can use the examples included here or other web resources to gain insight.
Module Parameters:
Video Selection Criteria:
Use these parameters to specify what video to show
Category ID |
Content category (works along with section). |
Featured |
Show featured videos only |
Authors |
Filter according to video authors. |
Filter Tags |
Filter by video tags: |
Sort order |
Video display sort order |
Main Area Configuration:
Use these parameters to specify how articles will be shown in the main area.
Columns |
Number of Columns to display |
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Rows |
Number of Rows to display |
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Pages |
Pages to display for slider or fader |
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Video thumbnail width |
Thumb display width |
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Video thumbnail height |
Thumb height |
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Display Style |
Horizontal slider - Vertical slider - Fader |
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Transition pause |
Pause time between transitions in milliseconds. A value of -1 disables automatic transitions. Default value is: 4000. |
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Transition duration |
Transition effect duration in milliseconds (default: 1500). |
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Slide orientation |
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Transition type |
Linear - Quad - Cubic - Quart - Quint - Expo - Circ - Sine - Back - Bounce - Elastic |
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Fwd/Bwd Buttons Position |
None - On Left and Right - On Top - On Bottom - On Top and Bottom |
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Show page buttons? |
No - Yes |
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Button Style |
Black - Grey - Red - Blue - Orange - Purple - Green - Square Grey - Tall Grey |
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Module HTML template |
HTML/CSS code to display the overall module box. You can embedd any of the following tags:
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Main Area HTML template |
HTML/CSS code to display each article. You can embedd any of the following tags to display article information:
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Styling Notes:
Here are a few example HTML markups taken from our online demos
Horizontal Slider
Module HTML Template
{leftbutton} | {mainarea} | {rightbutton} |
Video HTML Template
Video Thumb Fade Wall
Video Wall
Module HTML Template
{mainarea}
Video HTML Template
{video}
Additional Info and Tweaks:
If you get an error on the page where the video wall is - Here is the quick fix
The Seyret Video Component was originally developed for Joomla 1.0 requires Legacy mode to work in J1.5, but due to the upgrades of Joomla 1.5 there is an issue in display thumbnails without images. This causes an error with the Seyret Video Wall. In order ot fix this you must do a hardcode edit to the Seyret Video Component:
On file: /components/com_seyret/
includes/seyret.module.helper.php
edit line 19 from:
global $mosConfig_absolute_path, $database;
to:
global $mosConfig_absolute_path, $mosConfig_live_site, $database;
