i want to create a webpage like youtube.com, were people can upload videos?
please give me list a of what software,knowledge,anything i need to create and run a site similar to youtube
i c++ but im sure you need to know more than thAT?> thanks :]
i want to create a webpage like youtube.com, were people can upload videos?
please give me list a of what software,knowledge,anything i need to create and run a site similar to youtube
i c++ but im sure you need to know more than thAT?> thanks :]
you can't use C++ for webdev.
You'll need, some of(might need more): PHP, html...A freakishly costy server
completely false.Originally Posted by jerimo
C++ is used extensively for web design, for applications that require the highest possible performance. yes, php and asp are very common as well, but to say that you *can't* do something with a particular language is completely wrong.
Well, I have been told be web developer that you can't, so I just transmitted the information that I was told. Sorr for that!
Why would you do such a thing? Isn't YouTube enough?
A video site is problematic due to the extreme amount of bandwidth required to keep it running.
how much money ?
Big Bucks, you don't wanna do this.
Well, if you do it properly it does make more money than it costs. YouTube got somewhere (even though I think it's losing money now it's owned by google). So it might still be quite good. And there's not just youtube, there are other services that do the same.
If you don't want to pay for bandwidth, you have to be subsidized by someone else who can pay, which is what important sites will do. At least the ones that are still run by the original people.
Nevertheless a big part of youtube is like, flash, and their format conversion software which is set up server side. I forget what they use now for that but I don't think it's proprietary anymore. (If you can believe that!) Other stuff, like queues, you can do with cookies and scripting. Playlists and favorites probably go in a database with other account things. Searching is probably another database thing, if Google can't service you for some reason. You can access those through any web-interfacing language capable of using SQL effectively.
Yeah ... complicated. I must have mentioned a handful of different things.
Last edited by whiteflags; 07-30-2010 at 06:35 PM.
I don't think the software behind these types of sites is all that complicated. The biggest issue is the monetary investment required to handle the bandwidth.
There was a time when I would discourage people from this thinking it was a lost cause but with the success of so many sites like it I would be ignorant to say that more youtube sites won't work b/c we have youtube. Simply not true.
If the people who invented youtube felt that way we would never have youtube. In fact the attitude that there is already A or B out there so why would they ever look at my site....is an attitude that sets you up for failure. Of course a good dose of realism is nice as well but the realistic part of these types of sites is the bandwidth and server costs.
Honestly Google could have had the same mindset. Why another search engine when we have WebCrawler, Yahoo, Excite, and Alta Vista? As we now see almost half of those are either non-existent or have been bought out by other companies.
Well that's you Bubba.I don't think the software behind these types of sites is all that complicatedNah -- what I said should be one of those off-hand comments where I reveal too much of my own inexperience. Anything complicated takes a while.
You definitely haven't seen a certain TED video then. They present an overview of how their software finds portions of copyrighted material inside any uploaded video, whether you've recorded it from an old TV, on your shaky webcam or whatnot, and at hundreds of thousands of times per day.
To the OP, go ahead! While you're at it, how about building some of those pyramids like the ones in egypt! Or if software is more your thing, perhaps you could write a new and better looking version of office with more features.
You do have a team of hundreds, billions of dollars to spare, and years of your team's time at your disposal right?!
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AFAIK, they don't use much proprietary software.Nevertheless a big part of youtube is like, flash, and their format conversion software which is set up server side. I forget what they use now for that but I don't think it's proprietary anymore. (If you can believe that
FFMPEG (open source) for decoding.
x264 (open source) / VP8 encoder (open source?) for encoding.
For audio and the rest whatnot, I don't know.
To be honest I agree with Bubba that it's not that complicated to build, though a huge investment is required. Video uploading/watching is fairly easy. Searching and related algorithms can become quite difficult, but for a beginning site you won't need anything that difficult and it could be done by a third party library like Lucene. The most difficult part is probably load balancing: making sure the files get divided properly over servers and that watching the videos will stress the servers as little as possible.
iMalc: of course you can make it as difficult as you want. But automatically searching for copyrighted material... I don't think that's really necessary for a beginning site.
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I demand user owned SSL certificates!
To be fair, that isn't the job of the site hosting the videos.They present an overview of how [...] of times per day.
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