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ClipBucket 2.6 and new features

We have fixed a list of bugs but this time there are quiet logical than before and we assume debugging is a part of a healthy community

Here is a list of new features that you will find in our new ClipBucket

1. CBPlayer (ClipBucket Player), Clipbucket now has JWPlayer integrated
2. Now with even better Video SEO URLs and URL duplicity has been removed
   
3. Now you can access channels with username i.e (http://clipbucket.net/v2/admin)
4. Turn on/off facebook embed option
5. Added more even more user permissions
6. Now control each plugin permissions for each user level
7. Improved User Mass Email, now with user limit and more options
   
8. Improved FFMPEG conversion and Server modules check, now compatible with Git Hub and new versions
9. Improved Conversion log for better debugging
10. Now with Static Pagination option to reduce server load
    

and here is the list of changes we have made this time

Updated : Server modules check
Updated : Conversion log check
Update admin area text
Fixed : Update installer for 2.6
Fixed : CB Player preview thumb and Details
Updated : CB Server Modules
Updated : FFMPEG Conversion
Added : Mass Email
Update : Update cb stats
Update : FFMPEG codecs check
Fixed : video counts on user block even after video section is disabled
Fixed : user photo counts even after disabling photos section
http://code.google.com/p/clipbucket/issues/detail?id=186
Fixed : ReWrite Syntax Injection
http://code.google.com/p/clipbucket/issues/detail?id=185
Added : New mass email
Added : Plugin permissions in user levels
Fixed : Video links option | in admin area
Updatet : Template static variable to Cbucket->template
Moved : User permissions in classes/collections.class.php
Fixed : Video listing Most Viewed
Fixed : Video link options in admin area
Fixed : PHPMailer for localhost
Fixed : email case insensitivie
Fixed : extra params in plugins
Fixed : crousal in view channel
Updated : Counter function, now counts rows instead of pages\
Updated : upgradeable.php to load 2.6 sql
Fixed : SEO URL redirect for Videos
Updated : cbplayer.plugin.php
Added : cbplayer.plugin.php
Fixed : website_logo in player

This is for now we have more major changes in upcoming few months that will going to rock ClipBucket completely and we hope you will be happy to be a part of ClipBucket.

Thanks

- Arslan Hassan & CB Team

1 # Keep your stuff clean

Delete files from your temp directory which are old and are not deleted by Clipbucket, if you don’t want to keep video conversion logs for long time delete them after specified time, we have added new options in “Tool Box” called maintenance for deleting inactive sessions, old activity feeds and access logs that actually takes a lot of space on your server. Keep checking your server performance and delete conversion locks if your videos stop converting.

2 # Server optimization

No matter how much fast or professionally written script you choose, most important role is played by your server and its configuration, if server is not configured properly a small HTML based website can even cost you big problems so always make sure your server is optimized and is configured according to your requirement. Keep an eye on apache or your website log error log and make sure your mysql is configured properly to handle enough of the traffic. Use quality servers for a video conversion website because it takes a lot of CPU.

3 # MultiServer and content offloading

When too many connections are made on 1 server it can crash and cost you many problems such has hardware failure so we always recommend you MultiServer plugin for ClipBucket, by using a MultiServer plugin you can keep your videos, thumbs and photos on different servers so your website can handle HTTP requests properly and do not crash on having a large load of traffic.

4 # ReIndexing is important

When you see a user uploads 10 videos but Clipbucket shows it has uploaded 8 or 5 or may be –1 its because ClipBucket increment or decrement video counts when user uploads or deletes a video but sometimes when you mass embed or mass delete videos, this counting can go bit wrong so we suggest you to re-index videos, users and other objects to keep your stats updated on your website, to use ClipBucket ReIndexer goto Admin Area > Tool Box > ReIndexer

5 # Fix video duration

If your ClipBucket missed the video duration, you can goto Admin area > Tool box > Fix duration , here you can find videos with no duration, you can choose option how to update duration and most chances are ClipBucket will fix your video duration by reading its conversion log.

6 # Updated and Properly installed Server modules

FFMPEG, FLVTool2, FLVtool++ and MP4Box , these modules are open-source and are widely used for video conversion and repairing but if they are not updated properly, they can cause your videos not to convert or stream properly so always keep an updated version of these modules , you can ask ClipBucket official team to do this job for you.

7 # Pseudo Streaming

Pseudo Streaming is very important feature that every video sharing website must have but you must have a properly configured webserver in order to make it work. Ask your host to enable your server H264 streaming plugin so you can let your viewers to seek video from where they want to watch. Once your web server is properly configured for pseudo streaming , goto Admin Area > Manage players > Player settings > Check Pseudo streaming.

ClipBucketv 2.1 Online Demo

Here is the Page for bug reporting

[New Features]

- Photo Module
- Upload interface with Multiple Files
- Now with working Remote Upload and Grab videos from Youtube
– Only OS php remote upload with status Bar
- Remote Link videos to play in your player – no uploading just link and play.
- 1 Page Uploading
- Collections
- Sections Enable/Disabled so you can use any section stand alone
- Improved categories
- Improved Layout
- Improved conversion system
- Introduced new conversion settings – just drop down and select your choice
- Introduced Conversion Lab to find out why your videos are not converting
- Removed ‘powered by clipbucket’ from title

[How to report bug]

First
- Signup
- Upload videos
- Create Collections
- Upload photos
- Comments
- Browse All Pages
- Click all buttons
- Do stupid things (important!)

Reporting Bug
post your bug with following attachments
- create videos (very helpful)
or
- capture screenshot ( helpful )
or
- what you were doing when this happened?

I am here to annoucne, our update has been delayed, yea you guys already know 25th december has already passed, but due to few reasons we decided to delay our release.

- Fawaz was on vacations and there was no language pack for the picture mod, now i will have it today as he is back
- In addition to remote upload, i have added Upload from Youtube, now user just need to put Youtube Link and you will have its video embedded
- We need to optimize Javascript as well as mysql to improve overall performance of the script
- We also have to improve our pagination system for stability of website and server
- Some of important things are still missing , i will list them once we will finish working on them

We have also added “Remote play” upload option , that will let you enter any video file link and it will be played from that link instead of download, convert and all the processing stuff

I know many users are awaiting for new release, please be cool as we are working on many parts of Clipbucket for its stability.

Relase date : Fatal error, unknown date defined release_date(); please stick with older version till new update arrives

If you guys have an idea in your mind, you can simply post it on our forums.

- the Master Mind

clipbucket was going great, had good interactive features and i think, it was a good video sharing script but sure it misses alot of good features on what we were working on. for all those who wants to turn on your PICTURE SECTION, get ready, we are going to release is on 25th December, if we able to meet our milestone.

Fawaz worked alot on this section, and believe it or not, he had really did an AWSOME job and i know he wont disappoint any of you. Our picture section will have all those features that you want, it can be used as wallpaper directory or private pictures like facebook have or just simple image sharing like flickr.

I don’t have any demo or screen-shot of the section because i am writing this blog from my private computer,  btw we are going to launch it in couple of days. so you better stay tuned with clipbucket.

Besides this, i always bring a new problem for all users :p, this time, its an ultimate uploader, “whats so ultimate about it” ? well, i know you guys love the way you upload videos on youtube, simply select the file, no form filling, just hit upload and boooom, upload and do the rest later when you have time for it. so i code a whole new file uploader, now you can upload multiple files at once, no form filling, fully ajax, same like youtube. see the screenshots below, i was not able to provide you a video demo because i am not in my workplace write now..

Yea, you can see how our uploader works.

Now lets come to another promising feature, that no other script has, we are now introducing our new Remote upload, an Ajax Based remote uploader with file upload status and speed. works with PHP 5.2 and 5.3 with different method.

I wrote down whole new remote downloader for Clipbucket, exlusive for clipbucket as you will nto find any remote downloader of php with status. i really love php because with php 5.3 we can add more enormous features in future :p , i dont have its screenshots or demo either as you already know the reason

We also have a Christmas Gift for all of our exclusive users, its a surprise gift, its absolutely free. hint # 1 : you can run your video sharing website without any modules

Clipbucket is totally and totally rely on its paid plugins, we don’t have enough earnings but we sure do our best. If you , any of you, can bring us a good sponsor, a helper or anyone who can be a beneficial for Clipbucket, you are welcomed , we really want to make this project a really bigger one s we are aiming for a social + media sharing script which means facebook and twitter clone is not far far away. If you keep supporting us, we will definetly bring something new to this world.

Happy X-Mas and on 25th December its a very important day for us “Pakistanis” , its a day when our beloved leader and founder of Pakistan, Quad-e-Azam was born, may his soul rest in heaven.

and yes, i am the one whose name keep showing on every clipbucket powered website

Arslan hassan

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.

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

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

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.

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)