YouTube Integration
By integrating your videos with the YouTube API, videOlive provides excellent opportunities for getting your website and content really out there.
Some examples of what you can do:
Place your featured website videos on your YouTube channel, and share them with millions of users from all over the world.
Find new ways to drive traffic to your website. Videos shared on YouTube will be tagged with a link to your website, so that interested users can find your website back for more similar content.
Coming in videOlive 1.1 — Import and embed videos from other users directly from YouTube into your site. An excellent way to bring even more exciting video content to your users.
No FFmpeg encoder on your server? No problem!
videOlive can upload your video content to YouTube in it's original file format, and YouTube will do the conversion to FLV video for web streaming. When it's ready, videOlive will retrieve the video and it will then be visible both on YouTube and your own videOlive website!
Features
| videOlive | Version 1.0 | Version 1.1† |
| Front End | ||
| Fading thumbnail cycler | • | • |
| Video searcher | • | • |
| AJAX interactions | • | |
| Watch Videos | ||
| Feature rich JW FLV player | • | • |
| Views tracking | • | • |
| Rating and voting | • | • |
| Comments | • | • |
| Related videos | • | • |
| Other videos by this user | • | • |
| Channels | ||
| Channel portal pages | • | • |
| Assign one channel to video | • | • |
| Assign more than one channel to video | • | |
| Channel hierarchies | • | |
| Users | ||
| Registrations | • | • |
| User profile pages | • | • |
| Profile and account management | • | • |
| Friends and video subscribers | • | |
| Private messaging | • | |
| Tags | ||
| Assign keywords or phrases to videos | • | • |
| Tag portal pages | • | • |
| Tag clouds | • | |
| FLV Player | ||
| Custom player logo | • | • |
| HTTP streaming | • | |
| Skinning and embedding | • | |
| FFmpeg Encoding | ||
| Frame size | • | • |
| Bitrate limits | • | • |
| Thumbnail count | • | • |
| Re-encode videos | • | • |
| Aspect ratio selection | • | • |
| Video watermarking | • | |
| Customized commands | • | |
| MP4 encoding and streaming | • | |
| YouTube Integration | ||
| Encoding meta-service | • | • |
| Export selected videos | • | • |
| Deletion synchronization | • | • |
| Import single videos | • | |
| Import videos in bulk | • | |
| Google Stuff | ||
| Video sitemaps | • | • |
| Analytics tracking | • | • |
| Analytics tracking for videos | • | |
| AdSense integration | • | |
| Syndication | ||
| AddThis bookmark widget | • | • |
| AddThis subscribe widget | • | • |
| Main RSS feed | • | • |
| Channel RSS feeds | • | |
| Internal API | ||
| MVC code framework | • | • |
| Skin recursion and chains | • | • |
| Global pagination model | • | • |
| ER database model | • | • |
| ER database model with relation modifiers | • | |
Check out the videOlive Demo!
We have set up a basic installation of the videOlive video sharing script that you can review to get a better idea of how it performs.Click here to launch it!
videOlive has many features that allow for a better sharing experience, as well as more options to get your site noticed. For example, did you know about:
Fading thumbnail previews let your visitors get a better idea of the content of the videos they are browsing. How many times have you seen videos badly represented by a thumbnail that was captured at the wrong moment? That will never be a problem again. The thumbnail fader cycles continuously through several images to give users a chance to see what the video really is about.
Ever wondered how to get more viewers for your videos? Video sitemaps offers a unique opportunity to have all of your videos indexed by Google Video. Millions of users browse for videos through Google Video every day, providing for an excellent opportunity to drive traffic into your website. Don't rely only on search engines, for a video sharing site you need video search engines!
Share videos with YouTube. videOlive will automatically upload featured videos to a YouTube account. This will maximize exposure of your best videos and can lead to a very large amount of incoming traffic.
And what's more, we are hard at work developing new features for future versions to be released often — remember, you will have access to all software updates as part of your support package.
Version 1.0
TIP: You will find a much higher appreciation value in forming niche sites for small communities that gather around a central topic than with general video sites. Like this, you will offer a unique service to your loyal visitors.
The new way to share videos online
A brand new solution for building video sharing communities on your own website. Video has gained a huge market on the web, and there is no better time than now to get started with a highly profitable video site of your own.
Get ready to start seeing results and join the thousands others that already are making the most out of their web presence. Add video sharing technology to your community today!
What's so great about videOlive?
We are green, are you?
There are many great benefits for videOlive customers hosted on DreamHost. Not only do you get an excellent webhost with oogles of webspace and bandwidth, but also:
Because a great video sharing script needs a great hosting server to live in
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Hosting
We have partnered up with DreamHost to bring our customers an excellent platform for hosting videOlive. There are many excellent features that you can get with a DreamHost shared hosting account, and these will get you started on the right path with your new videOlive video sharing website:
Encoding
As a special offer to our customers, both new and current DreamHost members get free installation of the FFmpeg encoder, you will get the most recent version available along with all major audio and video codecs available for Linux so that your videOlive installation will be able to support all common video formats. You will also receive assistance in setting up videOlive to interact properly with your new customized FFmpeg installation.
