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[onething]

Hey guys what video site script would you recommend to me if i want to set up a site that consists of videos? Both user uploaded and not

[RhetoricalRuvim]

What's a video site script?

[CommittedC0der]

I think what he is meaning is a pre-coded script that allows users to upload videos to his site.
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[Vaielab]

Get the youtube api
You won't have to deal with big bandwidth, thousand of different video encoding and formats, and need of big harddrive
Let youtube deal with it.

[RhetoricalRuvim]

I wonder if there's a JavaScript way of doing this (playing videos, etc.); flash is not supported on iPhone, Kindle, and probably some other devices too.

[Vaielab]

flash or html5 are the only way to play video... and java but that kind of big for nothing

[onething]

That was one of those famous burps from visionary steve jobs' fault.

the youtube api, do you mean something like videoscript.us? wouldn't give my site the feeling of being in charge. it would look like a scraper site.

i was told phpmotion was crap because it uses htaccess, and that that would slow it down a lot.

[Vaielab]

YouTube APIs and Tools - Google Code

[RhetoricalRuvim]

Vaielab said:

flash or html5 are the only way to play video... and java but that kind of big for nothing

That's kind of what I meant by 'JavaScript' ; JavaScript is a requirement if you want to use HTML5. For example, what's the point of making a canvas element if you can't draw anything in it (the drawing is done with JavaScript).

Though if you make a JavaScript approach to this, my suggestion would be to check what platform it is, etc., before throwing 30 (etc.) frames per second at the user. The thing is, Kindle can't handle that many page-reprints per second (it's more like 1 per second), so you might want to set the fps to 1 (or less) for Kindle, and use only the important frames.

With that said, who watches videos on Kindle, anyway?