 <p>First, update your Joomla, current version is 2.5.2. There are definitely security issues using 1.6 as it has not been supported for over a year now.</p> <p>Next, there are tons of slider extensions. Widgetkit by Yootheme is really nice and should be able to do images and videos. There are dozens of other options in the JED - <a href="http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/photos-a-images/images-slideshow" rel="nofollow">http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/photos-a-images/images-slideshow</a></p>