Detail Information:
Video Starter Kit is an ASP.NET video sharing and streaming web application that is specially designed to provide help and assistence to developers and IT professional for creating highly scalable social media sharing web applications in ASP.NET with less efforts and resources.
It includes all basic and advance features that is required for creating highly scalable social media interactive web solution like youtube.com.
ASP.NET Video Starter Kit can be used in a wide range of website needs. Most important are as follows.
- It can be used as video portal solution for sharing & managing videos.
- It can be used by organization for their product demonstration, preview & presentations like real estate projects, educational instituites etc.
- It can be used as social media interactive web sites.
- It can be customize to almost any type of video and social network related related requirements.
- It provides solid platform for developing highly scalable complex social media sharing web sites like youtube.com.
Main behaviours of Video Starter Kit are as follows.
- It include more than fourty different themes and provide flexibility to embed your own design or customize existing design easily.
- All layers of web application are fully object oriented and easily written code. Can be easily customized every module. e.g customizing functionality of one module will effect their presence on whole web site. e.g customize video item will effect video item display on whole website.
- Fully scalable approach is used to process data both in and out from web application.
- No builtin asp.net functionality has been used therefore it can be adjusted in almost any type of environment.
- Video publishing utility (ffmpeg used by default) can be easily extended to any third party video publishing tools.
- Can be easily extend to any data source for storing data. by default Sql Server & MySQL supported.
- Complete side by side documentation written with every module and data access files to help developer while working on it.
Based on keeping user interest or customers, we developed two versions of ASP.NET Video Starter Kit video portal.
Video Starter Kit Light Edition:
It include all basic features that is required to build low level video streaming web site. For more detail see feature comparison list below and view screen shots.
Video Starter Kit Advance Edition:
It include all basic and advance features that can help developers to build highly scalable social media sharing web application. See feature comparison list below or view live demo.
Main feature comparison between Light & Advance Edition.
Main comparison features listed below.
| Feature | VSK Light | VSK Adance |
|---|---|---|
| Direct and sheduled video publishing. | yes | yes |
| Multiserver video streaming and managing. | yes | yes |
| HTTP pseudo-streaming - Progressive Download using server side scripting to allow random access to parts of the video that have not yet loaded. | - | yes |
| Anti Leeching - Protect you from stealing your bandwidth while securely stream your videos. | - | yes |
| Multiple themes (JQuery UI Compatible). | yes | yes(improved) |
| JQuery light javascripting. | - | yes |
| Embed third party videos e.g (videos from youtube.com). | yes | yes |
| Flash flv streaming supported. | yes | yes |
| H264 streaming supported. | yes | yes |
| Silverlight wmv playing & streaming supported. | - | yes |
| Private messaging board. (youtube style). | - | yes |
| Advance youtube style public profile / channel management with multiple themes and various options for user. | - | yes |
| Advance youtube style my account management for managing all tasks and settings of user account. | - | yes |
| Advance youtube style communities and groups management with all features including group videos, group members, group topics and group restriction settings. | - | yes |
| Advance youtube style video preview page with improved features display and actions. | - | yes |
| Advance youtube style video commenting with spam reporting and advice pointing. | - | yes |
| Friends management and listing. (youtube style) | - | yes |
| Member subscription and listing. (youtube style) | - | yes |
| All basic social networking features including internal messaging, friends, subscriptions, groups and more with advance level of settings for user. | - | yes |
| Post watermark on videos. | - | yes |
| Screening user data with admin specified keywords. | - | yes |
| Restrict specified usernames to be taken. | - | yes |
| Ban / Block ip addresses. | - | yes |
| Advance mail template management to customize mail templates for various actions easily from control panel. | - | yes |
| Advertisement management from control panel. Both adult and non adult ads supported. | - | yes |
| Error handling and reporting to administrator. | - | yes |
| Adult contents with warning message supported. | - | yes |
| User video statistics including videos watched, and history. | - | yes |
| More than twenty advance and improved jquery compatible themes. Tested on all main browsers. | - | yes |
| Member channel commenting. | - | yes |
| Advance level of abuse and spam reporting on almost every type of contents including video, comments, channel comments, messages, group topics etc. | - | yes |
| Video playlist supported. | - | yes |
| More than fourty different video player themes. | - | yes |
| Advance actions including disable rating, disable comments etc on video. | - | yes |
| Advance level of data caching to improve performance of website. | Yes | yes |
| FLV downloader from third party website and encoding to variety of formats. | Yes | yes |
| Separate home page to arrange variety of website features including videos, blogs, members, news etc. | - | yes |
| Single or multiple thumbs generation from video and preview on video gallery in case of multiple thumbs. | Yes | yes |
| Video transfer over ftp to another server in case of multiserver settings enable. | Yes | yes |
| Advance youtube style video action features like rating, commenting, abuse reporting, sharing, add to favorite, add to playlist and more. | - | yes |
| Lots of more small features both in light version and advance edition. | yes | yes |
| Multiple level content categories. | yes | yes |
| Url rewriting / friendly url on IIS 6.0 & IIS 7.0 | yes | yes |
| Review demo. | screen shots | demo |
Contact us if you want to ask more detail about features available in Video Starter Kit Advance Edition & Light Edition.
We also appreciate reporting bugs, feedbacks, comments or sharing ideas. This help us to produce more improved versions.