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.

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)

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

After struggling hard with Upgrader and updater, i accidently, deleted the original source files , now finally, after working again, they are back in working form. ClipBucket v2.0.4 is out now, though it is still in BETA stage because we are still not sure weather all bugs are fixed or not.

Download : http://clip-bucket.com/
Demo : http://clipbucket.net/v2

Admin Demo Username and Password
username : demoadmin
password : demoadmin

We are working on many many many things, you can suggest us new features , some tweaks, style changes so that we can make ClipBucket more better..

New JUICY THEMES by Zohaib will also available by tommorow and some cool plugins are also in the list…yes ALL FOR FREE..

Hot Updates

1. Secure Cron Jobs
2. Category Order
3. Completely Multilingual
4. Country List
5. Youtube Auto Play Control
6. Referal Url
7. Limited Videos Conversion at Once

and many more…..but enough for this blog :p

Change Log

Fixed Installer Sql
Updated : Installer
Releasing : 2.0.4
Fixed : total_videos_watched
Fixed : Playlist Duration
Fixed : Manny Things
ADDED : Auto Play Option
Added : Youtube Referal URL option
Added : PHPInfo in admin panel
ADDED : New Manage Player page
Added : Rows option in ClipBucket Form Object
Fixed : Embed Code Empty on Updat..
Fixed : Many bugs…
Fixed : Multple Video Conversion at once
Fixed : Cron Job Security
Fixed : Embed Code Security
Fixed : Ads Manager
ADDED : New Country List
Fixed : set keep mp4 as is
Fixed : Dont check for BASE URL if Cron is Running
ADDED : Date Format
Fixed : User Queries
Fixed : Video QUeue
Fixed : My Channel link in sub menu
Fixed : JS Errors
ADDED : HQ Button
Fixed : Auto Buffering of both HQ and Normal Quality Video
Fixed : Language Import
Fixed : Editor’s Pick CSS
Removed : Join Group
Added : Admin Panel Display Options
Fixed : Language Phrases of Menus
Fixed : All Language Spots and Phrases from template Files
Fixed: language phrases for front end from all php files
Fixed : Language phrases
updated: version file
Added : More User Moderation Option In Admin Panel
FIXED : get_group_videos
FIXED : get_members
FIXED : video.class.php
Fixed : get_groups
Fixed : add_groups
Fixed : Session to get playlist check
Fixed : get_comments
Fixed : private_message
Fixed : Sent Items
UPDATED : Few SQL Queries
Fixed : channels.html ads box
Fixed : functions.php
Fixed : get_videos function in video.class.php
Fixed : get_groups function in groups.class.php
Fixed : log.class.php
FIXED : mysql queries
REMOVED : unused functions
FIXED : tbl function
Fixed : removed all mysql_query and replaced with ADODB
UPDATED : Custom Fields plugins
UPDATED : Editors Pick plugins
UPDATED : Embed Video plugins
UPDATED : Global Announcement plugins
Fixed : ads.class.php db tbls
UPDATED : cbpage.class.php
UPDATED : ClipBucket.class.php
UPDATED : groups.class.php
Fixed : lang.class.php db tbl
Fixed : my_queries.class.php db tbl
FIXED : plugin.class.php db tbl
Fixed : pm.classes/pm.class.php
Fixed : sent items "to"
Fixed : search.class.php
Fixed : groups.class.php Search
fixed : session.class.php db tbls
Fixed : upload.class.php db tbls
UPDATED : cbemail.class.php
UPDATED : category.class.php
Fixed : user.class.php db tbls
UPDATED : actions.class.php
Fixed: video.class.php db tbls
Fixed : conversion/ffmpeg.class.php db tbls
Fixed : tbls of admin area
FIXED : admin_area/charts DB tbls
FIXED : tbl function
ADDED : tbl function in actions folder
FIXED : Group Category ‘%s’
FIXED : Button disable while adding comment
FIXED : Template Editor Strip Slashes
FIXED : Groups Privacy Setting
ADDED : Owner can delete comments
ADDED : download option
FIXED : 2.0.3~2.0.4.txt
ADDED : 2.0.3 ~ 2.0.4 Notes and SQL
ADDED : Unscriptions
FIXED : PM order
Fixed : BBCodes and PLugins in Private messages
Added : Category Order
Added : Editor’s Pick Order
Added : Editor’s Pick Remove
Fixed : Sent items error
Fixed : Delete user
UPDATED : Set of numbers of videos being watched from admin area
FIXED : .htaccess
Update 2.0.2 ~ 2.0.3 SQL
Fixed : Comment Rating
Fixed : Spam COmment…
Fixed : get_video function , now checks weather input string is numric or varchar so call query accordingly
Fixed : Stats and get_{object} functions
Fixed : User signup and admin add user captcha
Fixed : Plugin Manager, inlude plugin file upon installation
ClipBucket v2.0.3 Released
Fixed : Installer
Changeset activity in Clipbucket2
Fixed : Mass Upload
Fixed : Remote Upload
Fixed : video_block float

Well, please email us, leave us feedback or open topics on forums.clip-bucket.com if you face any kind of problem.

lets get back to work…

Arslan

Sorry for delaying our next update, 2.0.4, upgrader took more time than expected, anyways, upgrader is final and we are waiting for final call to release the next update and that is fix of all bugs that are discovered. So you can expect next version will be out in next 24 ~ 48 hours and that are my FINAL WORDS

Well, we checked Youtube’s New Video Page, and we decided to chase YouTube this time =D,

yea, we are planning to make all Youtube features possible in ClipBucket from top to bottom , left to right, a to z. In order to make this feature possible, we need your support in all terms ($-$) , our plans are to make these feature available to public for free but if we dont get enough contribution in form of ($) then possibly we charge you little in order to buy new pair of shoes every sunday =D yea we really mean it.

Dont think that we are ever going to make ClipBucket paid, or going to remove or limit any exisiting feature so be chill, we just need some booster so we can Race with Youtube, its a tough competitor but we want to participate…

Anyways, please gather as many people as you can for our support, we really need now, we are trying hard, there are only 2 people in whole development of ClipBucket and that are

1) Me – Arslan
2) Fawaz

you can see our work and we can make ClipBucket like Youtube , open, free for you guys…

you keep making websites with ClipBucket and we keep making it better and better

Shaba Khair

Arslan

After struggling two years, now its time to go fully open source, fro past 1 year, we were releasing ClipBucket under CBLA that simple states that you cannot resale it, but now we are officially releasing ClipBucket under “Open Source OSI : The Attribution Assurance License”, that simple states that

1. Redistributions of source code, in whole or part and with or without
   modification (the "Code"), must prominently display this GPG-signed
   text in verifiable form.
2. Redistributions of the Code in binary form must be accompanied by
   this GPG-signed text in any documentation and, each time the resulting
   executable program or a program dependent thereon is launched, a
   prominent display (e.g., splash screen or banner text) of the Author’s
   attribution information, which includes:
   (a) Name ("Arslan Hassan"),
   (b) Professional identification ("Powered by ClipBucket"), and
   (c) URL (http://clip-bucket.com).
3. Neither the name nor any trademark of the Author may be used to
   endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific
   prior written permission.
4. Users are entirely responsible, to the exclusion of the Author and
   any other persons, for compliance with (1) regulations set by owners or
   administrators of employed equipment, (2) licensing terms of any other
   software, and (3) local regulations regarding use, including those
   regarding import, export, and use of encryption software.

Now, Developers have fully permission of selling, distributing our code but it must carry our name on it as the license said.

Next version of ClipBucket ie ClipBucket v2.0.4 will be released under this licensing modal.

original source of license can be found here

Thanks for Using ClipBucket

Arslan

Finally, our beta version has been released, you can download it from here
Download : http://clip-bucket.com/download
Demo : http://clipbucket.net/v2

Whats New ?

ClipBucket has many new features that will let you run your website pretty easily..
some of them are as follows

1. New Web 2.0 Layout Design for both User and Admin
2. Easy to Moderate Videos, Users , Groups etc.
3. Create Different User Groups to assign different permissions
4. Improved SEO Friendly URLs
5. Extendible with Plugins and Addons like WordPress
6. Easy to install Themes and templates
7. Easy to install FLV Player
8. Daily Stats with graphical interface
9. Mass Uploader via FTP
10. Improved Channel System
11. User Categories
12. Advance reporting/flagging system
13. Ajax Based favorite,comments,ratings and reporting
14. Playlists
15. Quicklists
16. Search Engine
17. Highly customizable Profile page
18. A Complete SOCIAL NETWORK
19. New and Improved Groups system
20. Improved templating system
21. STILL FREE !!! =D

these features are few of our complete list

How it looks like ?

Well, just go there http://clipbucket.net/v2 , signup and try our user front end, for our admin panel , please login using following username and password
username : demoadmin
password : demoadmin
you will not be able to perform any action in administrations panel..

Support Call

• well we are working hard on ClipBucket but there is no support, please support us by
  1. buy our mods
  2. create plugins and templates
  3. spread clipbucket
  4. write reviews about clipbucket and developers on different forums
  5. contribute, find bugs, reporting etc..
  6. help us improve our code.
  7. help us finding sponsors.

stay up-to-date for our next release. possibly Feb Mon, 8th 2010

Arslan