ClipBucket 2.0.8 Rev 366 , We released 2.0.8 Rev 365 yesterday, but few bugs remains there so that’s why we have to release Rev 366, now its a clean release, some aw some new features and even more stable video conversion.

Lets start with PakPlayer

As we told you before, Pakplayer is based on flowplayer so it woks the same as Flowplayer BUT we made a core editing to integrate with our need completely, here is a quick overview of what Pakplayer can do

Pseudo Streaming

Pakplayer can pseudo stream videos, works with lighttpd H264 streaming as well as rtmp. For those who don’t have lighttpd can work things out  with xmoov.

Controls

Pakplayer is really easy to control, almost every part of Pakplayer is controlled via Java-scripting, using jQuery, Controlling Pakplayer is no more difficult, you can either read flowplayer articles or wait for our docs.

Plugins

Pakplayer can extend its power with its plugins such as Youtube or Advertising or Viral Videos like, we Compiled Main source with Youtube and Pseudo Streaming plugin only, you can expect more in future.

Skinning

Pakplayer skin can be changed with  CSS, you can brand your own player, change gradients, styles easily, its totally based on CSS 3 and XHTML
well folks, this a very basic overview of Pakplayer which i can write in very basic mode. I have to go advance in order to tell its core capabilities.

Uniqueness of ClipBucket

There are many video sharing script available but what makes Clipbucket so special ? here is a list of features you wont find in any other script.
- Free & Open Source , ClipBucket is first free & open source video sharing website script.
- Easy plugin system, no other script has easy plugin system as compared to ClipBucket because of its stability and flexibility
- Video Conversion Method, Clipbucket’s video conversion method is much more advance then any other script, now we are planning to introduce OGG and html 5 in next version as well as mobile video option.
- Flexible Playlist and Quicklist, ClipBucket playlist is much faster and can be auto play if using PakPlayer. If you have seen Youtube’s play feature, you can say ClipBucket’s quicklist system works the same.
- User Levels, All other scripts lack of this important feature.
- Easy Template Engine, ClipBucket template editing is the most easy-to-edit template system among all.
- Regular Updates, if you happened to become a part of any other video sharing script community, you can tell, ClipBucket is the most active amongst all.

How you can start a power video sharing website

If you are planning to start a big video sharing website with ClipBucket, you must have following things.
- a reliable hosting
- Optimized server(S) for content delivery – Proper setup of ClipBucket – A qualified Server administrator – A full time ClipBucket developer – ClipBucket Premium Support Package

its never been easy to run a video sharing website, buts its not that difficult, if you have a proper team with our support and modules, you can run video sharing website easily. You can ask for other modules such multi server, facebook connect and paid subscription from our support department. These are also very important features of a star video sharing websites.

Hello Fellas
i finally re-active now and hopefully will try to sort out the all the things asap.

lets categorize my article

• Whats up with the next update
• Wheres 2.1 ?
• PakPlayer is ready for beta release :O

Whats up with the next update

well, its quite a long since we have released a new update, its simple, we were waiting for a good bug list to fix and so far all reported bugs have been fixed. We are working on ClipBucket Re Index that will re count all stats like Videos uploaded by user, total videos, total comments , comments made by user etc and update the database to keep the stability of content details in ClipBucket.

From past 2 years, we were waiting for a good player, now Pak Player is going to release with next update which is based on flowplayer so thanks to FlowPlayer and team.

Wheres 2.1

Well, once we are finished with 2.0.8 , we gona work on 2.1

Key Features that are already decided

1. Pictures
2. Blogs
3. Music
4. Smart Search
5. Advance Social Networking
6. User Wall System based on micro blogging and sharing system
7. API system
8. Easy Integration System

Sorry for not writing documentation for v2, but now we are taking this think pretty seriously and hopefully we will be able to ACT on it very soon.

PakPlayer is ready for beta release

Yes, PakPlayer is ready for its beta release, in this release we will have these features

1. Youtube Enabled
2. Js Enabled
3. Pseudo streaming
4. HD – SD videos
5. Auto Play videos in Playlist
6. 1 Click Setup
7. Css based skin change

what we will have in full release

1. Advertisment
2. Dynamic Content
3. Related Videos
4. Sharing Options
5. And some other cool stuff

what we can do with this player

1. We can code its plugin as we do for Flowplayer
2. We can do make its new and cool skins
3. We can use all available plugins of Flowplayer

PakPlayer is official ClipBucket player which is originally based on Flowplayer, but we have changed its source to meet our needs. PakPlayer is distributed under Attribute Assurance License.

Demo will be online soon and will be notified to all subscribed users.

P.S : Please ignore my grammar or spell mistakes..

- Az

Hi

So far, ClipBucket is going great but we still need to add some more features so we want to carry on. I have been thinking of removing crons and you can expect it in our next release, we will remove crons for video conversion, it will be required only for stats , nothing else.

Don’t get excited now as we are now going to work on ClipBucket documentation before we start working on development again, once we are done with our documentation, we will add some new cool features in ClipBucket.

I didn’t get enough time to work on main ClipBucket website, hopefully, once i am done with my project, i will work on our main stream website so users can find things more easily.

Please post your feedback about changes you want in either ClipBucket or our mainstream website.

Have a good day!

Subh-ba-khair

- Arslan

We just launched another pro Template for clipbucket in the Red/Black Color combination. Take a look and Leave your comments

Product Page : http://clip-bucket.com/product/Crimson-Template/92

Demo Page : http://styles.clipbucket.net/?set_the_template=crimson

This Template got 2 Big Featured Spots on the Home Page, which can be filled with videos, Ads, or promotion to instantly Gets the User’s Attention.

Don’t forget to leave the comments.

We are working on our website and will update some of our section very soon, we are planning to create website Showcase for ClipBucket, for now, you have to submit your websites on forums (http://forums.clip-bucket.com/forumdisplay.php?64-How-are-you-using-ClipBucket) , once we are done with the this section, all posts will be converted to showcase . We are also working on plugin submission so people can submit plugins more easily and properly. We will update you soon about our plugin submission system

- Az

ClipBuket 2.0.7 – Stable has been released – Download Now

well, i was being very optimistic with the things but believe me, it was “really” tough for handling all the jobs all alone (perhaps not that alone). Well, i must say thanks to these guys “oUTSKIRTs” , “Franky” and offcourse “Fawaz”. ClipBucket v2 is now in fully working stage.

Ok, well, BUG is kind of NATURAL thing in WORLD of PROGRAMMING so don’t afraid of it as we always got a bug killer (no violence). But, so far, all basic features for a video sharing website off-course one like Youtube , have been ACHIEVED =D

ok , i am not writing about the change log, infact, i am going to tell what ClipBucket Got.

ClipBucket Feature List (Summary Only)

• Built-in video conversion class with embedding feature
• Video Thumbnail generation if video is uploaded to the server
• Extendable Video Form so user can customize the form and ask members all the details he wants about the video
• Easy-to-use Video Moderation, Reporting and Managing
• Built-in fully featured Category Based sections (Videos, Users, Groups, or you can add your own)
• Ajax Based Commenting System so users don’t need to reload the page
• Ajax Video Rating, Add To Favorite and Other Basic Features
• Fully Featured Playlist , Now, Autoplay option with HDFLVPLAYER
• Use as much players as you want, try JW , try HDFLVPLAYER, try others, whatever you like
• Very easy Template editing and simple functions like get_videos(array(‘limit’=>’10’));
• Add videos to your QuickList, with our unique idea.
• The Editor’s Pick, unbeatable
• Play Youtube Videos in your Player, even Embedded
• Captcha on all required areas
• Fully Featured User Management System , easy-to-integrate with other apps like Facebook
• Group Based Users so user can allow different permissions
• Category based users so members can categorize more easily
• Channel System, like Youtube had before (it just changed the look)
• Fully Controllable Admin Area
• Manage Video Conversion Process
• Background conversion (pretty old, but always work)
• Server Friendly Conversion
• Gravatar Integrated
• Optimized Friendship system
• Create your own pages easily
• Fully Template Based
• Built-in Template Editor
• Website Stats
• Admin Notes

still a-lot to go, my memory isn’t that sharp :p

Why ClipBucket ?

• It has Template System Like WordPress (just upload and activate)
• It has Player System that NO OTHER SCRUPT HAS (just upload and activate)
• More control over players
• Worpdress like Plugins (upload and install)
• Very easy to code plugins
• Very easy to intenerate with any system
• Fully Open Source (OSI APPROVED)

well, when i say , its EXTENDIBLE to MAXIMUM , does i have to explain anymore ? ok , good , i know you are wise guy/gal so lets go download ClipBucket and give it a TRY , i bet, you are not going to leave it

Feature Plans

• Many new items, in other words, Turn ClipBucket from Video Sharing to MultiMedia ( ++music & ++pictures)
• Do you need a blog  for each website ? yes ? so “WordPress Integration”
• More accessible for all users and all kind of servers
• More Easy-to-understand documentation
• Invite Developers to work on our code
• Open and friendly community

Final Words (for today’s blog)

“if you can’t catch the technology, at-least try to chase it” – my originals

well, i cant make ClipBucket exact like Youtube, because i can never know what they are thinking of transforming Youtube Into, so let us try our best and we will definitely chase them down and make big technologies usable and opensource.

Shab’a khair

Arslan (Az)

Well, so far, you have seen only what we have showed you, but , there are alot of things that we haven’t described yet or you can say, we didn’t get enough time to put our hands on these things so ultimately turned to *SECRETS*. Ok , lets move to real things

1. User Feeds

Yes, ClipBucket do create user feeds, for example “User has subscribed to other user” or “User has added other user as friend” or “User has uploaded new video” , these all feeds can be turned into real-time streams that requires little high performance server though it will work fine with users that are not more than 400 million, perhaps :p.

2. Multiple Files for Single Video

Now, What the hell is this ? ?…. its nothing like an ultimate feature but useful one that can be used for large videos to split them into parts , for example a video with the file name 123465798.flv can have 10 more parts such as 123465798-1.flv , 123465798-2.flv, 123465798-3.flv , 123465798-string.flv , 123465798-type.3gp and so on, ClipBucket is smart enough  to get all these file with only one function and that is  “get_all_video_files()”

3. Unlimited Video Thumbs

as i told you about files, ClipBucket can also produce as many thumbs for each video as you want and you can create a full time preview of a video using our Thumb Rotator Plug-in

there are many things that are still secret but these are secrets not because i didn’t get time but i forgot what are they :p

you can utilize these features as you want, i want to add Pictures and Music but STILL i haven’t seen any developer contribution who can take responsibility of creating any of these section. I can only hope for the best.

- Az

Hi
we have been working hard on our project and still awaiting for developers to join us and help us achieve the goals that we have set.

there are other scripts and it looks like they have more features than ClipBucket but if you go into deep, you can easily find the difference between the core coding of the ClipBucket and other scripts.

ClipBucket’s code is easy to edit and creating new plugins is also not difficult. I dont know how to write documentation on scripts, so i would let you guys to ask me questions about ClipBucket development, i will gladly help you.

I am trying my best and struggling to add as much features as i can but user contribution is too much low and unexpected that definitely low down our morals, i request you to please support our community by creating new themes or any changes or hacks you make, please do share them on our forums.

ClipBucket Rc2 has been released and we are almost reaching at a stable stage. But, complete list of features that ClipBucket has is too much long that if you compare with our existing features, none script can match us. and we are still willing to go on and on.

Click here to Download Latest version of ClipBucket 

We want someone to work on Pictures sections, he just need to have good knowledge of Image and file manipulation with basic skills of MySql, everything else ie Category, Commenting, Sharing, Flagging, Rating are easy to extend and integrate with any Section of ClipBucket.

We also need someone to code Music section for us so ClipBucket can achieve the title of Multimedia Sharing Script.

Believe me , we are struggling hard, you people appreciate us alot, but this time, please do contribute what you can and i don’t mean a MONEY. Please support ClipBucket community.

Your ClipBucket Developer
Arslan

Hello fellows

ah, i have been inactive from past few days, had to do some tough work, still not done but i can tell the release date of ClipBucket RC2
a long term problem that is coming with ClipBucket is video processing and i tried to add as much system abilities as i can. now featuring two more options and that are “Quick Conversion” and “Server Friendly” , as their names say, Quick conversion is basically used to turn on quick video conversion that starts converting videos as soon as it is uploaded and Server Friendly simple does not let ClipBucket to process videos more than 1 at a time.

Besides this, we have added

- Comments Moderation and Global Spam Option (if admin spam comment, it will not display)
- Subscribed Videos, this option was not added throughout ClipBucket v2 Releases
- Show Inactive sign on videos to admin on front end and quick video moderation.
- Fixed Video search in admin
- Fixed Video search in front end
- Fixed Group videos count
- Fixed Many Parts of View Channel
- Some more..

and the worst part was that, i recently update my OS and reinstalled local server and forgot to turn on magic_quotes_gc in php settings and that cause recent of version of ClipBucket alot of problems, advertisements were not adding properly, new gibberish text appears on adding new page so i recently found this problem and now its finally fixed for all next releases

ClipBucket RC2 Will be released on 23rd March – “Yaum – e – Pakistan” with a very special Green Template.

Now with HDFLVPlayer.net

recently we contacted all FLV Players owners, few responded good and few didn’t and some didn’t even bother to reply us back but there was only one guy who agreed to go with ClipBucket. Bala fro Hdflvplayer.net. Hes player is awesome, got all features that we wanted for ClipBucket and he agreed to let us distribute their player with ClipBucket for free but with their brand name on it

• Plays FLV, Mp4, H264
• Pesudo Streaming
• Youtube Video
• Playlist
• Related Videos
• Advertisments
• Easily Skinable
• and many more

check all features here http://www.hdflvplayer.net/hd-flv-player-features.php

we will try to add as much controls as we can in ClipBucket to control this player. Again i thanks Bala and his team for being a partner of ClipBucket

ClipBucket & JFusion

“JFusion does its magic with the use of its JFusion user and authentication plugins. These plugins allow the complete customisation of the Joomla login behaviour without any core hacks to Joomla. When multiple softwares are integrated there needs to be one “master” software that controls all user management actions. When a user logs in to Joomla, JFusion will validate the user based on the user details in the master software. If a user is succesfully authenticated, JFusion will automatically create or update the user in all of the slave softwares.”

I am really thankful for JFUSION team for creating ClipBucket and JFusion Plugin, that will let ClipBucket to integerate with other scripts more easily

You can check and Download this plugin from JFUSION website

Alright, we are releasing first release candidate of ClipBucket after 4 beta releases. Many new features and options have been added, we didn’t work much on conversion because it worked fine on many systems perhaps require “Video Conversion Troubleshooting Guide”, we have added a new plug-in called “ClipBucket Helper” that will help you set your crons and also tells you the status.

Click Here To Download ClipBucket 2.0.5

We are not done with migrators, because last time upgrader(migrator) didn’t work, but in this time we hope  it will work fine but we suggest you to buy our profession installation service in order to upgrade, because Old version(1.7.x) of ClipBucket had some sensitive areas that can crash while upgrading or get problems while importing data.

Following are the achievements we have made.

1. Perfect Video Conversion (may need some troubleshooting)
2. Easy Website Moderation and Administration
3. Easy Integration with other scripts
4. Fully Plug-able and Extendable
5. Comes with 6 to 7 built-in plug-ins
6. Quick-list, Playlist, Reporting, Favorites
7. Easy Template Editing
8. Easy Code Editing
9. Gravatar Integrated
10. Anonymous Comments
11. Ajax Comments, Comments Rating
12. Ajax Comment Spam and Delete (moderation)
13. Highly Optimized SEO Links
14. Easily Integrate-able Flash Players
15. Mass Uploader (via FTP)
16. Background Processing via Cron Jobs, Reduce Server Load
17. Highly Video Conversion, Supports Mp4 Output
18. Wordpress Like Themes and Plug-in System
19. Advance tags and search system
20. Playlist feature (ajax based)
21. Add unlimited thumbs for each video
22. Easy-to-use Admin Panel for everyone with Helper Tools
23. Editors Pick v2
24. Group System v2
25. Channel System v2

We really worked hard to make these things possible, but this is not enough, there is a long list of features still in que & yet to come, i.e. Music and Pictures etc and all will be free and open source, we need sponsors and donations and more important, we want more development contribution, you all are welcome to join our team. ClipBucket has entered in his first RC state and we are hoping to release gold version pretty soon. We will keep improving our code, we will never stop our development.So no need to wait more. Upload the V2 and Start building your own Video Sharing Empire!

Thanks for being part of our ClipBucket Community

Arslan Hassan