[SHalliday]

Originally Posted by towermatt

I am using Photopost and it seems to work very well.

The photopost gallery itself is integrated with the forum out of the box, permissions the whole thing.

You can have a look at mine here if you want.

I have also figured out how to use the inc_features.php file to create some blocks for CMPS from it.

The support is not great, that is for sure. But I do love the product, it filled all the needs I had.

I agree. We have managed to do limited intigration with vb as well however we have now reached a point that it is requiring alot of additional programming and database changes to extend it any further. My biggest issie right now is the very limited support photopost offers for videos. Our members continue to post utube, myspace, etc links within their posts and photopost does not provide any ability for them to include those links/feeds within their gallery. They can of course upload the videos again to their photopost gallery providing the format is compatable but we find the majority of our users do not. The number of video formats and the actual video playback leaves an aweful lot to be desired. Considering I am fairly confident they will not be addressing any of these issues in any foreseeable future release I am now looking to find a more appropriate product. Video clips has become a mainstay of today's internet world and members want the ability to easily share videos with one another. With the explosion of utube and myspace, its rather unrealistic to expect they will want to reupload all of the videos to our site. A video gallery needs to do both. Let them upload the actual video file if they choose or post the link to their utube/myspace video and have it play inline on our site. Any one know of such a product that also integrates with vB?

This is the closest product I have found so far. Unfortunately it appears to have no vB integration. What a same :

Xe-VideoGalV2 FX

This is their demo page. The gallery templates can be easily modified to blend into your site and not only is the inline player extremely nice, it also streams and plays all of the standard utube, myspace, etc videos inline. Notice it displays the homesite link when a video url is used. Very nice however, no vB integration so I intend to keep looking for a solution that better meets our site's requirements.