Best way to build a video site?

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Hey guys I been apart of the WF for about 5 months now and want to jump into a site that shares videos and if possible allows people to upload videos somewhat like youtube. I understand youtube took a 11.5 million investment lol

anyways, any ideas and best plugins or wordpress ideas would be appreciated
Thanks
#build #site #video
  • Profile picture of the author sladex
    Just try to google, there is a lot of open source and free scripts for that, just found one: clip-bucket

    Try to check them.
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  • Profile picture of the author rendell
    Even for simple video uploading and sharing site, the bandwidth needed to run the videos is huge.

    Other than bandwidth, you need to think of copyrights and legal issues ... (think megaupload)

    Hope you have already looked into the 2 points above before you venture into it because it hurts to see fellow members get into technical limitation and legal tussle and forced to close your video sharing site down
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    • Profile picture of the author JeremiahSay
      Originally Posted by rendell View Post

      Even for simple video uploading and sharing site, the bandwidth needed to run the videos is huge.

      Other than bandwidth, you need to think of copyrights and legal issues ... (think megaupload)

      Hope you have already looked into the 2 points above before you venture into it because it hurts to see fellow members get into technical limitation and legal tussle and forced to close your video sharing site down
      That's exactly what I thought when I saw this thread. Youtube needs A LOT of bandwidth and space to store that much videos (they are NOT cheap).

      Create a site like youtube is great but requires a lot of programming, legal and technical skills (requires huge capital as well).

      Why not start a video website that uses youtube embedded video? For example.. HumorAndFunny.tv (not sure if it's taken up.. just giving an example).. <--- if you're intending to do this then a video sitemap.xml is essential. You can get high ranking in google for it too (well, it takes time of course)
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Hersh
    There are quite a lot of video scripts. You can use a Youtube clone if you want, but there are quite a lot of unique scripts out there.
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  • Profile picture of the author theseohouse
    I really appreciate your idea. It's great. Wish you lot of luck.
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  • Profile picture of the author reneesbertrand
    The best thing you can do is try to make a website where you embed videos from other sites and add a description to it ..!! just make sure you theme looks a bit like video portal that will help but uploading videos on your own site like Youtube is unimaginable unless you have a really huge investement
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    • Profile picture of the author DonnyBoy
      Originally Posted by reneesbertrand View Post

      The best thing you can do is try to make a website where you embed videos from other sites and add a description to it ..!! just make sure you theme looks a bit like video portal that will help but uploading videos on your own site like Youtube is unimaginable unless you have a really huge investement
      Well I 100% agree to you... This is the easiest way to do it... But yes bandwidth is always essential..
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