Youtube Data API lets you incorporate YouTube functionality into your own application or website. The Data API allows a program to perform many of the operations available on the YouTube website. It is possible to search for videos, retrieve standard feeds, and see related content.
ASP.NET Video Starter Kit 5.5 introduce fetching videos from youtube based on various search terms and targeted categories using Youtube Data API.
You can  use asp.net video starter kit portal as a mini youtube website to retrieve millions of videos uploaded daily to your own website and manage it with your own way. This will make your website healthy, data rich which can increase your visitors from search engines tremendeously in result you will create great earning opportunity.
Which type of Youtube Data API features supported by ASP.NET Video Starter Kit?
Currently asp.net viideo starter kit using features related to fetching videos from youtube. Main feature includes.

• Fetch videos based on youtube categories e.g (Science & Technology)
• Fetch videos based on search terms. work on all categories or selected category.
• Fetch videos based on filters e.g today, this week, this month, all time added videos
• Fetch videos based on orders e.g published, relevance, top rated, most viewed etc
• Manage videos in different website custom categories with your own way.
• Validate videos periodically to delete or disable all videos which is removed from youtube.
• Automatic fetching supported, to fetch videos based on custom selection continuously after specified time interval.
• Advance video tag processing engine allow you to process each and every youtube video tags in a scalable, create search sug
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We have released ASP.NET Video Starter Kit ver 5.5 today with lots of new features, improved existing codes and make it more reliable and scalable at high level of load and data.
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From last three years we provide asp.net video starter kit packages based on feature differences to customers. Which create not only problem to us while maintaining different copies but also for customers while upgrading some features.
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Video Starter Kit include more than twenty professional looking themes and provide flexibility to create your own themes or customize existing theme or change complete look and feel in just few minutes.
Video Starter Kit be default light weight JQUERY UI compatible design and themes. You can use JQUER UI Theme Roller to create any level of theme and embed it within Video Starter Kit solution just by following few steps.

Just follow easy steps to create your own them using JQUERY UI Theme Roller.

i: Go to http://jqueryui.com/themeroller/ , choose template and start edition template by choosing your own color scheme and styles.
ii: Once theme created download complete bundle to your computer.
iii: Unzip downloaded theme and jquery script zip file.
iv: Under Video Starter Kit solution, create new theme, copy files from any of existing theme, paste copied files into newly created theme.
v: Now open unzipped downloaded custom theme folder, go to jquery-ui-1.7.3.custom\css\custom-theme folder and copy images folder.
vi: Paste all files within images folder into newly created Video Starter Kit theme images folder.
vii: Go to jquery-ui-1.7.3.custom\css\custom-theme and open jquery-ui-1.7.3.custom.css theme css class, copy all class until .ui-widget-shadow {---}... class.
viii: Open newly created theme \app_themes\newthem\jquery-ui.css file and replace all css files with copied css files except ui-dialog {...} classes at the end.
ix: Setup theme in web.config file
x: This will update jquery ui theme within your Video Starter Kit template.
xi: Rest for layout customization, just open app_themes\newtheme\layout.css file and adjust color schemes for text, links, headers, navigations, backgrounds according to your custom color.
xii: run your website your will see totally changed look and feel.

Play with layout.css file, you can change complete look and feel of Video Starter Kit in few m
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Here we provide sample code that can help u to use Media Handler Pro component in your asp.net application (c#, vb.net) to
i: Publish any format video to high quality mp4 format using libx264 codec and preset files
ii: Set meta information to mp4 video in order to stream properly on web.

We recommend you to download latest ffmpeg build with presets support from http://ffmpeg.arrozcru.org/autobuilds/

i: Sample Code for MP4 Video using libx264 codec and preset files

The code above will create mp4 video with name 'sample_temp.mp4', In order to stream this video on web you need to add meta information otherwise players will first download complete video and will then play it.
For adding meta information we are using mp4box with Media Handler Pro. U can use the following code to set meta information and make streamable mp4 video from 'sample_temp.mp4' video via mp4box utility.
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string MP4BoxPath = //
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We have released improved Video Portal & Youtube Clone Kit for ASP.NET. 
ASP.NET Video Starter Kit 5.4 include more new features, improved existing features, fix bugs reported by customers and more.

What's New in Video Starter Kit 5.4: Video Starter Kit 5.4 bundled with lots of new features. Main features added include

• HTML5 Video Player Support.
• WebM Video Encoding with HTML5 Support.
• Improved MP4 Video Encoding & Streaming.
• Featured Videos
• Extend Photo Gallery Feature.
• Abuse / Spam Reporting Improvements.
• Mail Template Improvements.
• and lots more.

I: HTML5 Video Support:

ASP.NET Video Starter Kit 5.4 now support playing mp4, webm videos through HTML5 Video Player with fallback support to flash player (play videos on flash player only if browser doesn't support HTML5 video player). Video Starter Kit add builtin support to the following two players
i http://videojs.com/ ii: http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/ 

II: WebM, MP4 Video Encoding for HTML5 Video Player:

ASP.NET Video Starter Kit 5.4 now support encoding WebM (VP8 Encoded) video encoding. So total video format supported by Video Starter Kit includes i: Flash FLV
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ASP.NET Video Starter Kit version 5.3 introduced more powerful photo crawling and batch uploading script for uploading photos in one step making it possible to upload and manage thousands of photos in few hours within website making website rich from content.

ASP.NET Photo Crawling Script:
Photo Crawling Script is powerful script written in ASP.NET which can facilitate website administrator to fastly upload and manage hundreds of photos within an hour to website by using single step. Main feature of script includes

i: Crawl photos from local computer or server by providing local destination path, or third party websites by providing direct url.
ii: Fetch and download photos to server from path provided.
iii: Allow site administrator to choose photos that he want to be part of website and remove useless photos.
iv: Assign category for uploaded photos. gallery if created, blog posted if generated.
v: Allow options to give global title, description, tags for all selected photos or give title, description, tags for each and every photo.
v: Allow options to create photo gallery and put all photos in gallery or place photos in existing gallery by providing gallery id. It also facilitate administrator to assign different title and description for gallery.
vi: Allow option to generate blog post from selected photos, assign blog title and place separate blog description / detail.

Key Advantages:

ASP.NET Photo Crawling Script give the following advantages to site administrator for uploading multiple photos in batch at
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You can use the following sample code to publish any format video to flash flv, mp4, vp8 webm, ogg vorbis, grab thumb in one step using ASP.NET Media Handler Pro.

Note: You need to download latest ffmpeg build with support of VP8 codec

Sample Code:
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         _mhandler.InputPath = RootPath + "\\contents\\original";
        _mhandler.OutputPath = RootPath + "\\contents\\output";
         VideoInfo info = new VideoInfo();
        _mhandler.FileName = "sample.wmv";
        _mhandler.OutputFileName = "sample";
         //***************************************
         //FLV Encoding
         //***************************************
        _mhandler.OutputExtension = ".flv";
        _mhandler.Video_Bitrate = 500;
        _mhandler.Audio_Bitrate = 128;
        _mhandler.Audio_SamplingRate = 44100;
        _mhandler.Force = "flv";
         info = _mhandler.Process();
         if (info.ErrorCode > 0)
          {
            Response.Write("Error occured while processing flv video");
            return;
          }
        _mhandler.Force = "";<
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Everyone who has visited YouTube.com in the past four years knows that you can embed video in a web page. But prior to HTML5, there was no standards-based way to do this.  Every video you've watched on the web has been funneled through a third party plugin (QuickTime, RealPlayer, Flash). 

HTML5 defines a standard way to embed video in a web page, using a <video> element. Support for the <video> element is still evolving, which is a polite way of saying it doesn’t work yet. At least, it doesn’t work everywhere. But don’t despair! There are alternatives and fallbacks and options.

Video Codecs:

There are tons of video codecs. The three most relevant codecs are H.264, Theora, and VP8.

i H.264 is also known as “MPEG-4 part 10,” a.k.a. “MPEG-4 AVC,” a.k.a. “MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding.” H.264 was also developed by the MPEG group and standardized in 2003. It aims to provide a single codec for low-bandwidth, low-CPU devices (cell phones); high-bandwidth, high-CPU devices (modern desktop computers); and everything in between. To accomplish this, the H.264 standard is split into “profiles,” which each define a set of optional features that trade complexity for file size. Higher profiles use more optional features, offer better visual quality at smaller file sizes, take longer to encode, and require more CPU power to decode in real-time.

ii: Theora evolved from the VP3 codec and has subsequently been developed by the Xiph.org Foundation. Theora is a royalty-free codec and is not encumbered by any known patents other than the original VP3 patents, which have been licensed royalty-free. Although the standard has been “frozen” since 2004, the Theora project (which includes an open source reference encoder and decoder) only released version 1.0 in November 2008 and version 1.1 in September 2009.

Theora video c
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You can use the following code through ASP.NET Media Handler Pro
component to extract all frames of video into jpg images.
Extracting Frames:

Re Encoding Frames / Images into Video:
Example below will encode all jpg frames into flash flv video, you can
encode it in any format.

If you receive Error Code 101, you can request updated MHP through our
support email.
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