Archive | January, 2011

Best YouTube Clone Scripts

Popular Video Sharing Scripts

So, you want to start your own website where people can upload videos of dogs of skateboards? A few years back, this would be nearly impossible. These days though, finding a script that will clone many of the best features a video sharing service like YouTube has is pretty easy.  There are a lot of duds out there though in the world of YouTube clone scripts so I have gone through the trenches to find you the three best scripts for the job.

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What is FFMPEG Hosting?

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Time to take a look at another hosting term you might have heard of but didn’t really know what it means.  FFMPEG hosting is the word up for review today. This is a term that is used to refer to any time of hosting that provides an assortment of of recording, converting and streaming tools for audio and video on the server side.

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YouTube Clone Hosting – Podcast 217

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Welcome to the first Web Hosting Show for 2011.  So what is the first thing we have to talk about in the sixth year of this broadcast? I want to touch on the topic of getting your own YouTube clone set up.  We will tear apart the basic necessity you need (FFMPEG hosting) and give you a few good scripts to try out so you too can get on the social video sharing bandwagon.

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Running Time: 7 minutes | File Size: 3.14 MB

You can make a clone of about any popular website service out there, and YouTube is no exception.  You basically need the FFMPEG tools to help convert the video or audio into a digestible web format and a script to organize it all.  Sounds pretty simple, right?

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State of the Web Hosting Show (2011 Edition)

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As we enter year six for the Web Hosting Show, both as a podcast and as a website project of mine, I thought it was about time I apologized to you, said the unsaid and give you a look into the year to come for this very website.  It is hard to believe this website has been around over half a decade and let me start things off by saying that I am not going anywhere soon.

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