What is the best way to create a video sharing site with WP? WordPress

Fahad Murtaza answers:

Hi Steve

I think this link should be the first place you should go for help

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/video/

Also check this one

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-video-pack/

It has many features including the following

<blockquote>* Allow readers and subscribers to add video and audio comments, and to participate in collaborative videos;</blockquote>

which can be extremely useful for you.

One more thing, you can get some developer to modify this for you so that you can upload videos to amazon services like AWS EC2 etc.

Regards,
Fahd

Abdessamad Idrissi answers:

The best is to keep your videos on Youtube, because uploading directly to your website will take space and requires lot of programming (encoding, smart video serving depending on internet connectioin, HD/SD) that already YouTube offers for free.

There's the possiblity to upload to YouTube without quiting your wordpress website: [[LINK href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/youtube-uploader/"]]YouTube Uploader[[/LINK]] does that.

Once you upload your videos to YouTube and integrate them in your post, people can comment on that post and you can use a plugin such as [[LINK href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/genki-youtube-comments/screenshots/"]]Genki Youtube Comments[[/LINK]] to grab the comments from youtube and integrate them with existing wordpress comments syetem etc.

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Hardeep Singh answers:

http://goo.gl/gYI1Z

The above site runs on wordpress with Video capabilties using theme free video theme (I don't have it top of my head.)

Videos are loaded to YouTube to save on programing & site space. (as suggested by Abdessamad Idrissi too)

We did customizations in the site to make the way it is. Voting/rating is there using "GD Rating" plugin.

Allowing users upload videos can be achieved using form plugins like Gravity/Formidable Forms.

If you need help/want to create such site, we can help you. You can reach me on skype (worldofharry)

Luis Abarca answers:

I think that this plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-video-plugin/ + blip.tv or youtube.

if you want more control of your content, you can also use cloud servers, unlimited disk space and a content distribution network (CDN):

- Amazon EC2 + Amazon S3 + Amazon CloudFront
- Rackspace Cloud Server + Cloud Files (CDN included)

Im using Rackspace cloud files with email blast and file distribution like videos and PSD/PDF for printing jobs, Cloud Servers works with the Akamai network

You can also use Google Video for Google Apps, its like your own Youtube http://www.google.com/apps/intl/es/business/video.html

Bob Keen answers:

The golden standard is CloudPlayer Pro, which uses a combination of WP and Amazon CloudFront.

It comes with modules to create and manage distributions as well as upload files to Amazon CloudFront.

Link: www.cloudplayer.pro