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PhpMotion now provides tool that will allow your members to easily get all the videos that they want directly from Youtube. It does not require any complex integration.

The trick is your members only need to paste the url to the video and the rest is done automatically. The video will appear in their “My videos” section just as if they had uploaded it from their local machine.

The process runs in background so no need for them spend time waiting for videos to download.

For more details and purchasing phpmotion youtube grabber check this –
http://phpmotion.com/content/view/39/183/

Infrenion installs phpmotion free on all hosting plans.

What is FFMPEG Ready & Fully Managed VPS ?

FFMPEG Ready ::

If you wish to host youtube like or video community websites - you need to have FFMPEG + Mencoder + Mplayer + Flvtool2 + FFMPEG-PHP and other video libraries installed on your server.

Video scripts available in market - like Clipshare, PhpMotion, Ostube, Vshare, Dolphin, Rayzz, SocialMedia and others uses FFMPEG and Mencoder to convert various video file formats to FLV.

Infrenion VPS are loaded with all required FFMPEG files and libraries - we install all FFMPEG related libraries for FREE!!

Script installation is FREE (includes but not limited to - Clipshare, PhpMotion, Ostube, Vshare, Dolphin, Rayzz, SocialMedia)

Fully Managed ::

* Initial server setup and security
* Software and OS Optimization
* Email Security
* Apache & Mysql Optimization
* Firewall installation and configuration
* System hardening
* OS and control panel updates
* 24/7 server monitoring with instant reboots
* Third party software installations
* Weekly proactive and security scans
* Instant 3 minute reboot request reflex action

Our state of art Quad Core servers with 8GB of RAM ensures guaranteed RAM on our vps packages. Our VPS are built on Xen technology offering the most robust VPS solutions across the globe.

For more details please check : http://www.infrenion.com/vps_hosting.html

Yes! you read it correct Infrenion a leading ffmpeg hosting provider - now offers FREE installation of Social Media - A script developed by EntertainmentScript.com

What is Social Media Script ?

Socialmedia is turnkey solution to start your own highly profitable video sharing and uploading community - the script provides full of features that any video sharing website (like youtube, myspace, metacafe etc) would require.

Live Demo -
http://www.entertainmentscripts.com/social/

You can purchase license from EntertainmentScripts.com

What is Vshare ?

YouTube Clone Script

vShare YouTube Clone is a PHP/MySQL script that allow you to run successful video sharing portal like YouTube.com, DailyMotion, Google Video, etc…

vhsare

Demo:
http://video.bizhat.com

vShare video sharing community script allow users to view videos, rate videos and upload their own video to your video portal. Uploaded videos are converted to FLV format that can be playable with flash player just like Youtube.com

The script use smarty template, that you can modify to change look and feel of your web site.

We supports Vshare on all our shared & reseller plans and installs Vshare for FREE.

You can purchase license for vshare from here

Infrenion wordpress blog is not just a blog but now its video blog - What does that mean? Yes, you guessed it right! We can now upload video’s to our blog and readers can view the video’s just like Youtube..

Here goes our first sample video —

I am sure now you would say -”Wish I could also turn my blog to video blog” — Voila! your wish is granted - Here is simple tutorial taken from solostream.com that explains how to turn your wordpress blog to video blog.

You should have wordpress installed.

Download, install and activate the WP-FLV Plugin :This is an excellent little plugin created by Roel Meurders. It greatly simplifies the task of inserting flash video into your WordPress site.

Download the wp-flv.txt file from Roel’s site and change the file name to wp-flv.php. Next you’ll need to open your favorite FTP program and add the wp-flv.php file to your wp-content/plugins directory. Finally, visit the Plugin managment page on your WordPress site, and activate the WP-FLV plugin.

Download and install a free Flash video player. If people are going watch videos on your site, you’ll need to embed a Flash video player for them to use (don’t worry, it’s not as difficult as it may sound).

As a brief side note before we go further, the other way to distribute video is via download. In other words, you could simply link to the video file in your blog post, and allow folks to download the file to their own computer. A true video blog also distributes video via RSS feed. In that case folks use a piece of software called a podcatcher to receive new videos. The podcatcher software (e.g. iTunes, Juice, Newsgator, etc) automatically detects and downloads new videos for its user. This particular tutorial is geared more toward what’s known as “streaming video,” in which case someone visits your site and watches the video while there. So let’s move on.

Visit Jeroen Wijering’s site, and download his Flash Video Player 2.4. The player downloads as a zip file, so you’ll need to use your favorite unzip program to unzip it. If you don’t have an unzip feature already installed on your computer, you can download a free program called Stuffit Expander (for PC or Mac). After you unzip the file, you’ll end up with a folder named: flash_flv_player.

Next, you’ll need to upload the Flash player to your website. The actual file name you’re looking for is flvplayer.swf. You’ll find it in the unzipped flash_flv_player folder. Again, FTP that file over to your website. I strongly suggest you create a folder named “videos” within your main WordPress folder, and copy the flvplayer.swf file into that folder. This is also the folder into which you’ll need to place your video files once you have them ready (more on that later). If the video files and video player are not in the same folder/directory, this won’t work.

Create Your Video

Now that you have everything in place to play videos from your WordPress site, the next thing to do is actually create and publish your videos. Again, you’ll need some tools for this part as well. Before we get to that, however, lets talk about file formats.

The Flash Video Player you just installed will only play Flash Videos, which have a file name that looks like this: filename.flv (notice the .flv file extension). If your digital video camera is anything like mine, it will probably create video files in what’s known as Quicktime format. Quicktime files have the file extension .mov. So you’ll have to convert those files to the .flv format. Again, this is much easier than it sounds, and that brings us to the next free tool you’ll need.

Download the free Riva FLV Encoder. This is a cool little program that will convert various file types (e.g. .mov, .avi, mp4) into the .flv format. You can download the program here.

The Riva Encoder is pretty intuitive to use. There’s a box for you to enter the file you want to convert, and there’s the “Encode” button (click the graphic to the right for a larger view). On the right, you can set some of the parameters for the output video, such as size and quality. I use a file size 320×240, but you can decide what size you prefer. As for teh other parameters, I simply use the default settings, but again, you may want to experiment with different ones. After you’ve converted your video to the .flv format, you simply need to FTP it into the same folder/directory where your Flash video player is installed

Publish Your Video

Again this part is pretty easy. It’s as simple as writing a new post on your WordPress site. In fact, that’s all it is … with one little twist. Before we get to that, however, you need to set the correct parameters for the WP-FLV plugin we installed up in step one.

So, login to your WordPress site, and click on the Options tab. In the submenu, you’ll see a tab that says “WP-FLV.” Click on it. In the top box, you need to tell WordPress where the Flash video player is located. If you followed my directions above, all you need to enter in this first box is: http://www.yourwordpresssite.com/video/flvplayer.swf (just change the “yourwordpresssite.com” portion to whatever your is).

Click the graphic to the right, and you’ll see the other settings you need to set. In the “Default movie size” box, make sure you use the same size you used when you converted your videos with the Riva Encoder above. After you enter your setting, click the “Update Options” at the bottom.

There’s one more thing to take care of before you publish your first video. The WP-FLV plugin only works if you’re NOT using the WordPress WYSIWYG or “Rich Text” editor. So, click on the Users tab from the top menu. At the bottom left of your profile, you’ll see a checkbox with the phrase “Use the visual rich editor when writing” next to it. Make sure this box IS NOT checked. If it is, uncheck it, and click the “Update Options” button. After that, you’re ready to publish your first video.

Click on the Write tab from the main menu to create a new post. Just above the Post box, you’ll see a quicktag that says “FLV.” Click that button. This will open a new box that asks you for the file name of your video. It will probably already have “/video” in the box, so all you have to do is add the video’s file name after so it’ll end up like this /video/filename.flv.

The next series of boxes that come up should be filled in by default. The final box will ask “Do you want this video to start playing automatically?” Just click the cancel button because you DON’T want the video to start playing automatically (there’s nothing more annoying than going to a site and immediately some strange video starts playing in your face).

After you click the cancel button, you’ll end up with something in your post box that looks like this: [flv href=”/video/filename.flv” width=”320″ height=”240″ autostart=”false” /]. If you want to also write some commentary on the video, you can do that as well. If not, just click the publish button, and you’re all done.

And that’s it. You now have a video blog…

Rayzz lovers - good news - Rayzz 2.0 version is out.

Rayzz 2.0 looks feature rich script - it supports integration of various Forums, Blogs, Shopping carts & Payment gateways ..

Online Demo Available : Check this - http://rayzz.net/rayzzdemo/

Infrenion supports Rayzz 2.0 on all shared and reseller servers.

We provides free installation of Rayzz with all our hosting plans. (You can purchase software license from Rayzz.net)

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With this piece of information I hope clients looking for Clipshare templates will be able to decide what their site should look like –

DarkMatter 2.6

The Clipshare DarkMatter template also known as the new Darkside template for 2.6

The DarkMatter template is a stunning and poweful design featuring stylish mouseover effects and will be a great addition to any video sharing website using Clipshare 2.6 Professional. The Darkmatter template utilizes all seven advertising positions which are configurable via the Clipshare 2.6 siteadmin advertise section - Something that we have yet to see happen but finally made it into the new templates from ClipshareTemplates.com

Colour Schemes Available:

• Orange
• Blue
• Red
• Purple

Ad sizes:

• Homepage: 2x 336×280 Large Boxes, 468×60 long box
• VideoPage: 2x 336×280 Large Boxes, 468×60 long box, 468×15 Link Box
• All Other Pages: 160×600 Skyskraper

URL: Click here for the demo

• Username: Demo
• Password: Demo

ClearWater 2.6

The Clipshare ClearWatter template also known as the new ClearWater template for 2.6 is now ready. The ClearWater template is a stunning and light design featuring stylish mouseover effects and will be a great addition to any video sharing website using Clipshare 2.6 Professional. The Clearwatter template utilizes all seven advertising positions which are configurable via the Clipshare 2.6 siteadmin advertise section - Something that we have yet to see happen but finally made it into the new templates from ClipshareTemplates.com

Colour Schemes Available:

• Pink
• Black
• Blue
• Red
• Green

Ad sizes:

• Homepage: 2x 336×280 Large Boxes, 468×60 long box
• VideoPage: 2x 336×280 Large Boxes, 468×60 long box, 468×15 Link Box
• All Other Pages: 160×600 Skyskraper

URL: Click here for the demo

• Username: Demo
• Password: Demo

For more details check — Clipsharetemplates.com

Thank You.

Tom

I came across a good comparison between ClipShare and PhpMotion - would like to sharewith visitors

What Web Platform To Use - The Choice between Clipshare or PhpMotion

Once you’ve got your niche it’s time to choose your platform. While there is two main options we advise, one is for the budget user wanting to have the minimal basics the other is for the user who is looking to jump straight ahead.

We are going to review the two main Youtube clones we feature on this website, Clipshare and PhpMotion.

Clipshare Review - It’s Our Number One

Clipshare is the most popular commerical clone released it’s sold almost 5,000 copies and the next release, Clipshare 3.0 is feature rich and is more security focused than it’s earlier distributions. Clipshare, while it comes at a hefty price compared to PhpMotion - $200 the community surrounding the product, the range of templates available and the ease of customizing the look of Clipshare has been responsible for it’s popularity as the software of choice for users.

Although certain bugs have been identified in the 2.5 Clipshare release, Clipshare 3.0 has been confirmed to fix all of the bugs identified earlier and should result in a more robost software application.

Click Here To Purchase ClipShare

PhpMotion Review

While PhpMotion is initially free to download, costs incurr when you wish to remove certain branding units displayed by PhpMotion. Such as the footer link ‘Powered By PhpMotion’ which can make the site look generic and unprofessional. The basics are presented in PhpMotion and if your completely new to the Video Market then going with PhpMotion is likely to be the best choice to test your particular niche.

The default template is blue in colour and while the structure is lacking it provides a good platform for displaying important information such as recently viewed and the featured videos sections.

Once you’ve tested your chosen niche upgrading to Clipshare maybe a viable option for you as your users will start requesting additional features that PhpMotion is simply does not provide.

Additional Costs Included:

De-Branding: $39.99

Click Here To Download PhpMotion (registration required.)

Conclusion

If your on a tight budget then go for PhpMotion, while the resources available are slim it’s the best software for a low budget. If you have a valid Clipshare license or willing to invest $200 into the start up of your website then go for Clipshare and look out for the Clipshare 3.0 release.

Article taken from ClipshareTemplates

Cheers

Tom @ Infrenion

As you must be aware few of the free scripts available for hosting your YouTube clone websites are Phpmotion by http://phpmotion.com, Ostube by http://ostube.de etc.

Since we support all the major YouTube clone scripts, we thought of creating a live demo for the free scripts that are available over the web.

You can find out the Phpmotion live demo at http://phpmotion.infrenion.com .. Feel free to upload your videos, view the existing videos to check out our network speed.. I am sure you wont regret checking out our demo and hosting with us..!

Simlaryly OsTube is one of the available free scripts and it is live at http://ostube.infrenion.com .

I found this one to be quite impressive since it has many features inbuilt, such as hosting videos, images, sound files, forums and blogs integrated into one simple script.

Enjoy videosharing.. host your own YouTube like website..!!

Infrenion now offers ffmpeg support on all its shared and reseller plans

iNFRENION.com is proud to be few of those webhosts who are leading as FFMpeg webhosts. We now offer FFMpeg support on all our shared servers and for all our shared and reseller plans.

What is FFMpeg?
FFMpeg is a command line tool to convert one video file format to another. It also supports grabbing and encoding in real time from a TV card. There are various dependent modules that need to be installed for enabling FFMpeg support on the server.

With FFMpeg hosting now enabled for all our plans, you can use various videosharing scripts available in the market to share your videos. Few of the popular videosharing scripts are Phpmotion, clipshare, socialmedia etc.

Although we offer ffmpeg support on all our shared and reseller plans, we have designed a special plan exclusively for FFMpeg hosting, which is way less in cost as compared to other plans and carries tons of resources to be used by you
More details can be found at http://www.infrenion.com/ffmpeg.html

This is an exclusive promotional offer.. so be sure to take its advantage to the fullest.. Enjoy videosharing… Host your own YouTube ..!!