Custom post types with their own permalink structure

My main posts are news items (category “news”). Therefore, I used global URI writing in the following format: /year/month/post-name

I also have posts that contain photo albums (category “photo”) but I want these to have another URI structure, namely: /category/post-name in which category is photos

I’ve been looking over the Internet and I found this link (has category, but I think in category is better) that contains quite some information. I also vaguely remember a hook in functions.php that could do this:

'rewrite' => ...

Unfortunately, for a WordPress Newbee as myself, it’s not enough. I can’t figure out how to do this. Any help? Thanks.

So, if the category is news => /year/month/post-name e.g. /2012/10/test-post
If other category, such as photos or videos => /category/[sub-category/)post-name e.g. /photos/(2012/)France or for videos: /videos/(2011/)concert-u2

EDIT: the comments tell me that it is wiser to use custom post-types.

I have done that. So far I have two custom post types (videos and photos). I don’t think that there will be any other. What needs to happen: change the permalink structure of the custom post-types. I want them to be /photos/post-name and /videos/post-name. The regular posts should be /year/month/post-name. I added this to my functions.php

/* Add custom post-type (fotos) (added by Bram Vanroy) */

add_action( 'init', 'register_cpt_foto' );

function register_cpt_foto() {

    $labels = array( 
        'name' => _x( 'fotos', 'foto' ),
        'singular_name' => _x( 'foto', 'foto' ),
        'add_new' => _x( 'Nieuw fotoalbum', 'foto' ),
        'add_new_item' => _x( 'Voeg nieuw fotoalbum toe', 'foto' ),
        'edit_item' => _x( 'Bewerk fotoalbum', 'foto' ),
        'new_item' => _x( 'Nieuw fotoalbum', 'foto' ),
        'view_item' => _x( 'Bekijk fotoalbum', 'foto' ),
        'search_items' => _x( 'Zoek in fotoalbums', 'foto' ),
        'not_found' => _x( 'Geen fotoalbums gevonden', 'foto' ),
        'not_found_in_trash' => _x( 'Geen fotoalbums gevonden in de prullenmand', 'foto' ),
        'parent_item_colon' => _x( 'Parent foto:', 'foto' ),
        'menu_name' => _x( 'Foto's', 'foto' ),
    );

    $args = array( 
        'labels' => $labels,
        'hierarchical' => true,
        'description' => 'Het posttype dat alle foto-albums verzorgt.',
        'supports' => array( 'title', 'editor', 'excerpt', 'comments', 'page-attributes' ),
        'taxonomies' => array( 'post_tag', 'page-category' ),
        'public' => true,
        'show_ui' => true,
        'show_in_menu' => true,


        'show_in_nav_menus' => true,
        'publicly_queryable' => true,
        'exclude_from_search' => false,
        'has_archive' => true,
        'query_var' => true,
        'can_export' => true,
        'rewrite' => true,
        'capability_type' => 'page'
    );

    register_post_type( 'foto', $args );
}

/* Add custom post-type (videos) (added by Bram Vanroy) */
add_action( 'init', 'register_cpt_video' );

function register_cpt_video() {

    $labels = array( 
        'name' => _x( 'videos', 'video' ),
        'singular_name' => _x( 'video', 'video' ),
        'add_new' => _x( 'Voeg nieuwe video toe', 'video' ),
        'add_new_item' => _x( 'Voeg nieuwe video toe', 'video' ),
        'edit_item' => _x( 'Bewerk video', 'video' ),
        'new_item' => _x( 'Nieuwe video', 'video' ),
        'view_item' => _x( 'Bekijk video', 'video' ),
        'search_items' => _x( 'Zoek video's', 'video' ),
        'not_found' => _x( 'Geen video's gevonden', 'video' ),
        'not_found_in_trash' => _x( 'Geen video's gevonden in de prullenmand', 'video' ),
        'parent_item_colon' => _x( 'Parent video:', 'video' ),
        'menu_name' => _x( 'Video's', 'video' ),
    );

    $args = array( 
        'labels' => $labels,
        'hierarchical' => true,
        'description' => 'Dit posttype wordt gebruikt om filmpjes te publiceren',
        'supports' => array( 'title', 'editor', 'excerpt', 'comments', 'page-attributes' ),
        'taxonomies' => array( 'post_tag', 'page-category' ),
        'public' => true,
        'show_ui' => true,
        'show_in_menu' => true,


        'show_in_nav_menus' => true,
        'publicly_queryable' => true,
        'exclude_from_search' => false,
        'has_archive' => true,
        'query_var' => true,
        'can_export' => true,
        'rewrite' => true,
        'capability_type' => 'page'
    );

    register_post_type( 'video', $args );
}

And I suppose I need some rewrite rules here, but I don’t know how to!