I need help video upload

binary25

I have a site to sell cars and trucks and I have been trying to figure out a way to allow users to upload video to the sales listing on the site(www.autoatl.com) .The user can already upload pics but i have no idea what direction i should go to make this happen. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

bretticus

Google provides an API for Youtube (Data API) that allows you to initiate uploads from your website. I would assume it would be trivial to embed the videos where you want them from there.

binary25

Thanks for the option. I was wanting a way where the video would be stored on my server not youtube similar to the way the images are stored now. Any ideas?😕

Weedpacket

I think if you search the web you'll find a couple of dozen Youtube clone applications you can run on your servers.

binary25

I found a app called phpmotion but im not sure which portion of the script i would need to pull out for the upload function what should i look for?....Thanks for the help so far.

bretticus

Yeah, I will promise you that you will have a hell of a time isolating that part of the code from a full-blown CMS. Even if the code is in a plugin, the API that was used to create the plugin will cause you too to be familiar with phpmotions api. Unless you plan on switching your site over to phpmotion for everything, you may be in for a bumpy road.

Another important thing to note is that you will most likely have to transcode the video which is very CPU intensive and time consuming (convert that mpeg to flv.) Youtube seems to batch this on another server while you wait, so you may be looking at additional hardware. Also, video files are naturally much larger than images as you well know. You will have memory limits being hit. Scripts and database timeouts and possible other difficulties to contend with.

I don't mean to be discouraging but the issues I raise above are the reason I suggested the Youtube API in the first place.

Good luck!