Videobox

Videobox is Joomla! 2.5.x and 3.x plugin that enables you to insert video and audio in your articles. It supports videos from YouTube, Vimeo, and Youku, as well as HTML5 supported video and audio formats. You can use unlimited amount of different display methods in single article and each of them can have completely different settings. So which are those display methods?

Well, first of course is standard embedded player. That's what you're most likely to use when you have one or two videos per article. All you need to insert it is to add video ID or link to HTML5 supported media between {videobox} and {/videobox} tags. Then you can customize player size, offset and more.

You think that video player takes too much space in your articles? That's not a problem. You can use box display to show only clickable video thumbnail and title in your article and display player inside lightbox. You can even set it to display player inside your article when clicked, so visitors can play video while they read through article content.

And you say you have a lot of videos you want to add to article? No problem, with use of Videobox gallery display you can add them in seconds. If you think there are too many videos for one page in your gallery, Videobox supports pagination. Even if you have multiple galleries in same article, pagination works for each gallery separately. 

Do you have links to different videos in your text because you don't want to put these big, colourful players and thumbnails on your page? Want to keep visitors focused on your content and still include videos on your page to make visitors stay on your page longer? There's an app for that. It's called Videobox links display. It allows you to use standard Videobox code to insert links to videos into your content. These links are in the same form as regular links, except for one thing: on click, video is not opened in a new page, it's displayed inside one of Videobox players.

What are you waiting for? Give it a try!

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Once upon a time there was the spring ...

... and it was over in a couple of days. Fortunately, I got a chance to take a break just before the bad weather started all over again. As I'm writing this, it's snowing in front of my window and it's been snowing whole last week. I guess you've expected this to be a release of Videobox 3.2.0, but unfortunately it's not. It's still in the testing phase, mainly because I've rewritten the better part of it's settings and parameters management, and now I have to test all the possible settings & parameters combinations before the release. If you're willing to help, there's a link to the Videobox 3.2.0 BETA below the gallery, and you can report the bugs in it via the support form. Also, most of the days I'm so tired of all the coding I have to do over the day I just can't get myself into more coding.

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Some of my favourite songs

Today I spent two or three hours coding an extension that enables me to display YouTube videos as an image gallery and play them inside lightbox. Why? As I said, I want to be able to customize everything. Of course there are about a zillion and a half of those extensions already written. And how many of them use the lightbox effect that I want? None of them. It's just too complicated, they said. It's easier to use 10 completely different lightbox effects than to use only one for all of them.

And why did I bother doing this? According to the title, this is supposed to be a collection of my favourite music. I've created this extension so I can insert some music videos into my site. And here they are, some of my favourite songs:

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Hand-drawn artwork

I like to draw. I prefer to draw when I'm in school, because I'm always bored as hell. Here is a gallery of my latest drawings. As you're looking through these drawings, some may seem weird and crazy. No, I'm not doing drugs. There are other reasons. I listen to music during boring classes and when I start drawing, I just take part of lyrics and visualise it. As you've seen Some of my favourite songs, you know what kind of music I listen to and understand, why sometimes there are weird images. Second, I'm often sleepy and I start dreaming. And when there is mix of music, noise from class and professors speaking, brain comes up with dreams, weird as shit. When I add random curves I draw in notebook, viola, here is the result.

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Smlednik castle and sunset 3.10.2012

Now it's already more than a month since I went to Smlednik castle. Smlednik caste (also know as Flednigg or Flödnigg) was a fort, located on a hill a few kilometres from my home. Well, it's in ruins for quite a time now and it's being rebuilt for the last decade or so. I made some photos there and then I went back home. There's nice ridge from caste on one end almost to my home on the other end, so I went back home along that ridge. It's been a nice walk, although I got flat tire. Thank god that I did because when I came out of the forest there was a beautiful sunset I'd miss otherwise.

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Planica 5. - 7.10.2012

I have only 2 hours of gym per week in school and I have to gain about 30 hours outside my regular classes. That's why I went to Planica for this weekend. We're basically just hiking around and play football, and we also have a lot of spare time when I can do nothing, so I decided to make some photos of nature around here. Mornings were pretty cloudy, so I couldn't get any good photos of sunrise, I only got some photos of mountains in the morning sun. Here they are, enjoy them!

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Rašica quarry 20.9.2012

This is the second part of Rašica quarry gallery. When I went there on 28. August this year (photos here) I didn't have enough time to do everything I wanted. I also got tired after whole day of riding the bike climbing, running around and all that so it would be too dangerous to, for example, get my bike to the top of the quarry that time. On Thursday, 20. September, I decided to go there and do what I wanted ever since I was there for the fist time. I was determined to get my bike on the top of the quarry and I wanted to find a way to get there from the hill behind. It was actually a lot easier than I thought, because it's really easy terrain there. 

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