Video Starter Kit - Social Media & Content Sharing Web Application.

Screenshots

List of video starter kit screenshots captured from few parts of solution.

video starter kit photo gallery preview screenshot

video starter kit video listing screenshot

Features

Video Starter Kit is a huge solution built from several core section and have hundreds of basic and advance features. Main features are listed into sections below.

Videos

Videos is a core part of video starter kit and have all basic and advance features to be used for making best social video sharing experience. Main video related feature includes

VUploader user control which support
- advance youtube style ajax uploader with progress bar.
- multiple videos uploading and publishing.
- background video processing.
- generating multi level (240p, 360p, 480p, 720p etc) copies from source video.
- generating multi format (flv, mp4, webm, ogv, mp3 etc) copies from single source video.
- adding meta information to flv, mp4 videos.
- managing and streaming videos from
  - local server
  - cloud storage (e.g amazon s3)
  - multiple server
Streaming videos through flash or html5 player using
- direct streaming.
- streaming through http script (work for flash flv).
- rtmp - adobe flash streaming.
- mp4 streaming module.
Support both direct & scalable sheduled publishing approach. read more
Support multiple video managment options
- website own videos.
- third party embed videos.
  - manual uploads.
  - fetch videos from youtube using Youtube Data API.
- both website and third party embed videos
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Audio

Video Starter Kit include audio section which is a complete solution for making professional audio portal. Core features of audio section is almost similar to video section except it published audio and video files to mp3 audio file. all features

Photos

It is a core section of video starter kit solution and is also available as standalone VPhoto Kit. It's a complete solution with all features required to build professional photo portal. Main features include.

Professional jquery photo uploader which support
- unlimited photo uploading at a time
- keep each photo in multiple version
  - thumbs: for normal listing display
  - mid thumbs: for normal preview, blogging display
  - original: for original preview
- store photos locally, remote servers or cloud storage
Professional photo preview with multiple display options including
- normal preview
- original preview
- resize and generate photos based on user selections
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Groups & Communities

Video Starter Kit provides advance facebook style group / community section with all basic and advance features for building rich social content sharing community solution in asp.net. Main features include

Support user or admin ability to create groups, mark as public, private or closed with posting ability (direct or author approval needed).
Advance facebook style content sharing with group members via auto preview generation and posting.
Support join or leave groups, manage group contents, delete groups and other related actions.
Support adding videos, audio files, photos, blogs, q&a, forum posts etc within group.
Support advance facebook style comment posting on each group post.
Support invite friends
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Forums

Video Starter Kit have builtin discussion forum section with all basic features needed to build clean, lighter version of community discussion forum in asp.net platform. all features

Q&A

Video Starter Kit have builtin professional Q&A section which have all features require to build stackoverflow.com style next generation social discussion solution in asp.net. all features

Blog

A clean and simple blogging script is part of video starter kit solution with almost all features required for building clean article or blog posting solution. all features

Channels

Video Starter Kit provide professional channel script which add ability to create facebook style user profiles in asp.net websites. Main feature includes.

Facebook style content posting on user profiles.
Auto content preview generation.
Facebook style like, comment on user profile posts.
auto posts generation from user activities within website.
User profile support
- website own theme or custom themse for user profiles. User have option to choose their own theme.
- facebook style user content sections, photos, videos, topics, favorites, friends, profile information etc.
- sending private messages to another friend or user from profile.
- sending friend request to another user.
User channel support advance channels or members search option.
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Glossary

Video Starter Kit support additional small glossary or wiki section which allow you to categories your website related topics, terms or post into glossary section which can help others to find detail about any term or post just like dictionary. all features

SDK

Video Starter Kit provide professional SDK for customizing each and every part of solution according to your own requirements easily using SDK simple options without going deep into coding.

General Features

Beside core features there are hundreds of more general features in video starter kit. Main features include

Professional youtube style user my account section which allow users to.
- manage own contents
- manage account settings
- manage public profile settings
Private Messaging Board for sending private messages within website users.
Friends Management for making friends within website.
Auto signup or login through Facebook Signup or Login button.
Support more than 20 professionally designed twitter bootstrap compatible more than 20 themes supported.
Multiple Languages supported with proper admin management, admin can add more languages, enable multiple languages and choose preferred language as default language.
Professional mail processing engine is supported which allow you to manage and customize mail templates from control panel without touching internal code.
Advance content screening script to provide ability to auto review and screen user posted contents.
Provide abuse or spam reporting management to control spam or contents which violate website terms of use.
Professional comment posting script allow users to post comments on contents youtube, facebook and other styles.
Video starter kit support customizable action module which allow users to perform various actions on content including like, dislike, five star rating, add to favorite, abuse report, share and more.
Adult warning supported if content is marked as adult content.
Video starter kit support complex category listing script enables you to generate any level of listing easily by using simple configurations and properties.
User Role Management.
Packages Management to create list of packages and allow others to purchase package in order to upgrade access to different resources
Video starter kit support marking any content as premium. Premium content can be accessed through
- purchasing content via credits using packages
- monthly subscription for premium contents

Basic Features

Some more basic features of video starter kit includes

Advertisement Management
Embed Third Party Videos
Advance Pagination Management with implementation on any type of listing within few minutes
Video Playlist
Scalable Cache Management
Dictionary Management
Error Handling
Email Subscriptions: ability of admin to send email to all subscribers.
IP Ban
Tags Management
Autocomplete Search System
Youtube SDK for fetching videos Supported
Advance View Stats:, youtube style today, this month, this week, all time view stats management for every type record supported
Archive listing of contents based on month, years
Paypal subscriptions supported to allow users to subscribe via paypal to access premium contents and other restricted resources.
for more detail about features, visit video starter kit discussion center or contact us.

Requirements

Currently video starter kit solution is available in asp.net, c# and vb.net which runs under .net framework. There is no additional requirements for using it on your shared or dedicated server.