This article is written due to a request of my friend via twitter.
VidiScript is a free PHP script that clones features of YouTube. Which means you can setup your own Video sharing site!
VidiScript – It’s 100% Free
Packed with features you can only find on major media sharing communities such as YouTube and LiveVideo, VidiScript is the most powerful FREE media sharing community script available online today.
You can see it in action via Demo 1, and Demo 2.
Since VidiScript is YouTube clone script. You will need to have a bit advanced system requirements as described below.
- Linux Web Server running Apache
- MySQL 4.x or higher
- PHP 4.3 or higher
- GD Library 2
- cURL
- IonCube loaders
- .htaccess and URL rewrites enabled
- FFmpeg
- FFmpeg-PHP
- MEncoder and Mplayer
- LAME
And some PHP configurations.
- safe_mode = off
- max_execution_time = 1000
- max_input_time = 1000
- open_basedir = (no value)
- upload_max_filesize = 200M
- post_max_size = 200M
- register_argc_argv = On
Seems a lot of works huh?
Anyway, let assume that you have all system requirements above. Now we will proceed with VidiScript installation…
- Download VidiScript from their download page. (It’s v0.42 at the time I’m witting this).
- Upload the folder “Full Install” to your webserver.
- Point your web browser to http://domain.tld/install/
- chmod 777 following files and folder
data
data/keys
data/scroller/scroller.xml
uploads
uploads/thumbs
uploads/avatars
uploads/ads
uploads/groupicons
includes/settings.inc
includes/badwords.inc - The installation screen should be shown up similar the below. Don’t be worried if your ffmpeg and MEncoder are different, you can change it later.
VidiScript Installation | Step 1
- Step 2 you need to fill in your database name, username, password and host name –usually ‘localhost’ (without quote, for sure
)
VidiScript Installation | Step 2
- This step is pretty easy, just put in your site name, site folder, admin username and password along with email address. Hit Next (last) step.
VidiScript Installation | Step 3
- If everything is okay, you will see the screen below..
VidiScript Installation | Step 4
And here is your fresh VidiScript installation..
VidiScript | Fresh Install
Conclusion
The difficult part of installing VidiScript is ffmpeg. You need to have ffmpeg installed on your webserver. If you have shared host you might have difficult time since most shared hosting has provide no support for this feature. At least, VPS or Dedicated hosting is the most suggested in this case.
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Väldigt bra! Men när ja ska gå till sida 2 så får jag upp en inloggnings ruta. Vad för inloggning ska ja skriva in där?
I NEED SOMEONE WHO KNOW HOW TO SET UP VIDISCRIPT GOOD, SO I CAN USE HIM AS MY IT CONSULTANT TO DEVELOP MY WEBSITE, http://WWW.NUBIANBOX.COM. I WANT THE OUTLOOK OF http://WWW.INSIDESLUTS.COM
hola yo instale vidiscript en un subdirectorio y cuando abro la pagina no me dijrije ahi si no a la principal, y tampoco se como entrar al area de administracion (admin) me puedes ayudar con eso, me gusto mucho tu pagina, buenos consejos.
I’m stuck with “host name” on step 2 instalation process. I’m using ubuntu server.
@iwan,
What did you put in the hostname? Normally it should be “localhost” or you can try putting you IP address it may work.
vShare is a also a youtube clone script.
You can Download from http://vshare.in
I can’t understand step nr 4. How can i change the filles. How to change them. Where should i enter…. Please help
Hi Garet,
On step 4, you will need to change the file permission via a FTP client. I would suggest FileZilla for that. You can find more about FileZilla on their website http://filezilla-project.org/