Og:type article

There's no way to stop JFBConnect from not setting the type on the page. What you can do though is use JFBConnect to re-set the type back to video. To do so, install and enable the Open Graph - Custom plugin that comes with JFBConnect. Then, go to the Open Graph area of JFBConnect and click into "Objects". Create a New Custom Object.

For the "type" set it to "video" and check the "Built-in Facebook Object" box. Set the name to anything you want, like HWDVideos.

Finally, in the URL Query Params, you'll need to set the URL parameters that are for any video pages in HWD Video Share. For instance, if the videos are on a URL like:
index.php?option=com_hwdvideoshare&view=video&id=12
You'd put:That will add the video tag for any of those types of pages, regardless of the id of the video. Please note that I'm completely making up the URL above, I don't know HWD very well, but hopefully that gets you the gist..

Sorry it's a little confusing. I can imagine adding a way to 'skip' adding OG tags to certain components as *some* do it correct. Most, honestly, do it incorrect and so we just take it over ourselves.

I hope that helps, but if not, let us know.

Thanks,
Alex

The query params field is the same regardless of whether you use SEF URLs or not. You need to put the non-SEF query params there. The best way to determine those is to (temporarily) turn off SEF URLs and go to the page you want to configure. Get that URL and add the query params to the Open Graph object as described above. Those values will work even with SEF URLs as Joomla 'breaks' down the SEF URL into the query params automatically.

I hope that explains,
Alex

Floyd,
Apologies for the delay. I'm not sure why it's not showing correctly when being shared, but I'm also not terribly familiar with video content tags in general.

Can you try the following:
* Disable the JFBCSystem plugin, temporarily, and run your page through the Facebook URL Debug tool. That will show you the tags that HWDVideoShare is setting
* Then, re-enable the plugin and re-run the page through that tool again and see what's different.

Let us know and we can help you get things going. I know it's a bit of a pain, but the nice thing is that, when you get this done, we can help you create an 'action' that can automatically be posted to a user's Timeline when they watch your videos.. if you're interested. It can also be a button for sharing or something like that. Just let us know.

I hope that helps, and keep us posted on what you find.

Thanks,
Alex