Adding videos to the site yourself...

[chillspike]

Hi Kip,

I saw your thread for your funny video site script on Digital Point forums and thought it was really cool. I anticipate using this script in place of my current site...which has recently lost an important source of a lot of it's content...

It really is nice of you to offer this script...

I have a few questions I plan to get to in the next few day/weeks but I want to start with the one in the subject line and one about design:

If I were to install this script, could I add videos to the site in addition to the ones that are updated regularly?

And in terms of design, once the script is installed, can I change the design in any way?...for instance, the colors?...add a banner?....embed a video on the front page?

It's a beautiful script and I'd be happy with it even if the design couldn't be changed much...but making a site as unique as possible is always a good thing, you know?.

Okay, that's all for now. I'm not quite ready to install the site but I imagine I won't find anything better than what you're offering.

Best,

Mike


P.S. I forgot to mention... and perhaps this may be good news for your business...the videos I would like to add to your video script are official comedy central clips from Comedy Central's "Motherload" recently made available for embedding on other sites...i.e, it's now legal to add comedy central clips from shows like The Daily Show to your sites...do you think you would be able to introduce these videos into the video feed for your video site script?

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its not really setup to host them youself... There's obviously some workarounds but for the most part its made so that you can post up things like youtube, google and our videos...


Design can be changed pretty easily if you just edit some .tpl files and use a little bit of thinking about which files edit what things like header is obviously the stuff up top and footer is obviously the bottom. If you've edited scripts in the past its pretty much a no brainer.

I haven't really set things up for video submissions yet but I will be doing it in the near future ;) basically my dev site for the next release can be used but I haven't worked out ths submission process quite yet. Another way is if there's some kind of XML feed that has things like name, description, thumb and location of the video file. If its flv it'll be really easy, if its wmv I can convert them to flv on my server ;)

you'll probably want to jump in here: http://www.fastfreemedia.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49 and get in on the beta for the FULL featured system that has a LOT more features.

[chillspike]

Thanks for the reply.

Regarding the beta thread, I'm not sure I should post there because all I know is how to handle is html, php pages and a little xml (mostly copy and paste stuff)...I don't know SQL so I don't know if I'd be much help...

This maybe a ignorant question but...you mention the site not being set up to "host videos yourself"...embedded videos are not remotely hosted...that is what I was referring to before...just copying an embed code from a site like youtube or comedy centrals' new "MotherLoad" and just paste the code into the pages of the script....not feasible?

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from like youtube you don't use the full embed code.. instead you just use a PART of it...

the embed code looks like this: <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2P9EonMpzlM"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2P9EonMpzlM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>

the only part you use would be: http://www.youtube.com/v/2P9EonMpzlM

[chillspike]

from like youtube you don't use the full embed code.. instead you just use a PART of it...

the embed code looks like this: <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2P9EonMpzlM"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2P9EonMpzlM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>

the only part you use would be: http://www.youtube.com/v/2P9EonMpzlM

Thanks a lot! Sounds like it will work. What do you think about the recently officially available comedy central vids? Do you foresee using them in the future?

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Some are finding their way into the DB but alot of it is still pretty much just garbage. I'll look at grabbing some more though ;)

[ykbiz]

Hello,
To add more videos, do u mean at http://yourdomain.com/admin/index.php

first Grab the thumbnail with the URL,

and then add Game Description, select the Thumbnail Image,
and finally Game URL?

but what is meant by Game URL??

and, when i fill/ leave game url empty, and "ADD"

I receive " Bad query: Table 'funnyfli_fli.games' doesn't exist"


Sorry that I am still walking around on the script.

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get .61 it fixed the only games reference I found and some other things...