YouTube+phpFoX=VideoMod (Live Demo Testing)

Posted January 13, 2007

Got some free time to improve and fix some issues we have with the first VideoMod released. Currently been focusing on having all videos play in a flash player just like youtube.com for example.

You can test this script here
There are somethings I still need to work out but wanted to release this live demo so anyone that plans on using it can test it now and report any issues to me. Plus if you had any issues with the last plug-in I released add it here as well so I can check it out.

This update will give you 3 options when it comes to uploading videos.
1) Youtube Routine, which means your users just upload a video and it will convert it into FLV format and create a thumbnail image as well.

2) Default Routine, which means your users will have to upload a video and an image manually. Then when they view the video it will use the browsers plug-ins and not a flash player.

3) Streaming. Much like option #2 but this one they don’t upload anything to your server. They just stream the video from another server.

If you plan to use option #1 you will have to have the following installed on your server:

Quote:
output_buffering = on
upload_max_filesize = 100M (recommended maximum video upload size in MB) post_max_size = 100M (recommended maximum video upload size in MB)
GD Library 2 or higher
FFmpeg (http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu)
FFmpeg-PHP (http://ffmpeg-php.sourceforge.net)
Mplayer + Mencoder (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html)
flv2tool (http://inlet-media.de/flvtool2)
Libogg + Libvorbis (http://www.xiph.org/downloads)
LAME MP3 Encoder (http://lame.sourceforge.net)

I don’t know of many shared hosts that have these installed. I had to install these on one of my test servers. Though if you can get these installed having this mod will be lots of fun for your members.