Main features
- Full template driven (smarty.net)
- Search engine friendly URLs
- Advanced caching for high traffic sites
- Multi-lingual, you can set unlimited amount of language translations
- Anti hotlink support for videos (lighttpd mod_secdownload)
- Lighttpd pseudo streaming supported
- Different video formats can be created for each video (flv (flv codec), flv (VP6), mp4 (x264 ipod/iphone compatible), mp4 (mpeg4 ipod/iphone compatible), original format)
- Different video samples can be saved, e.g. 60 seconds preview from full video
- Original video can be saved for later use (convert to upcoming video format)
- Self hosted video and picture galleries
- Support for external video galleries (self hosted content isn't required) NEW
- Videos and gallery images can be watermarked
- Paid membership system built in (timed membership, pay per video/gallery credit system)
- Graphical membership statistics
- Submitter accounts support (free or paid)
- Submitters can add own banner to video/gallery page (recip link)
- Different video format can be shown for free and paid members (sample video preview)
- Automatic site updates! Your site can run on auto-pilot by updating from our 600k+ galleries database (smart-sponsors.com)
- Automatically grab videos from galleries and converts to flash playable format
- Automatic sorting into your categories
- Automatically updates from smart-sponsors.com free hosted galleries database (video & picture galleries)
- Advertising management for galleries, based on sponsor/paysite
- International (UTF-8) character support
- Customizable XML feeds
- Custom site pages can be added as modules
- Users can select their niche, site content will be hidden for them
- Full version of FlowPlayer included (flowplayer.org)
- Easy way to build network of sites using embed sync functionality NEW
- Embed & external videos import from xml/csv feeds NEW
Member Features
- Billing system allows you to charge webmasters for submitter accounts and surfers for access to your videos
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Integrated billing systems:
- CCBill (credit cards)
- Epoch (credit cards)
- Epoch MPA3 (credit cards, with affiliate program)
- Zombaio (credit cards)
- NATS4 (billing agregator)
- MPA3 (billing agregator)
- Billthephone.com (SMS micro payments)
- Bepass.com (SMS micro payments)
- GlobalAccess.com (SMS micro payments)
- We keep adding more based on popular demand
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Different payment options:
- Membership - user can buy timed membership, e.g. for 30 days
- Pay per video/gallery - user can buy credit which can be spent on selected videos or galleries
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Different "pay per video/gallery" price calculation:
- Flat price - each gallery costs same
- Pay per gallery content - you can define price per second for videos and per image for galleries. Total price for gallery view is calculated based on this value and gallery content
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Different member account types:
- user - can upload and watch videos
- webmaster - can upload and watch videos, add advertising to their own videos
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Different account limits per account type (views, uploads, membership length):
- anonymous surfer
- registered user without active membership
- registered webmaster without active membership
- registered user with active membership
- registered webmaster with active membership
- Payment options can be set per-account basis, you can have different price and submission/views limits for submitters and common users
- Affiliate code can be passed to site/video/picture gallery. Code is saved when member signs up and then used when member buys paid site membership.
- User registration and video/picture upload can be rejected for selected countries (GeoIP)
- Search for videos, galleries, playlists, blogs, users and groups
- View member stats - number of videos uploaded, space/bandwidth used, total number of friends, new messages, number of times videos have been viewed
- Display videos uploaded and the video details such as tags, runtime, total views, number of comments, status and video link
- Ability to remove uploaded videos and edit current video file details such as video title, description, video channels, set video as public/private, enable or disable comments/ratings/embed video
Index page
- Showing last added videos/picture galleries, last added by niche (main category), last registered users, featured videos and galleries and overall site statistics
Categories
- Each category will display video/picture gallery listings according to recently added, most watched, top rated and premium (paid access only) videos/galleries
Watch Videos / Video edit Page
- Related / User videos tabbed menu
- Select thumbnail on video edit page
- Display most recently uploaded videos
- Display top rated videos
- Display featured videos
- Display premium videos (paid membership access required)
- Write Comments (Ajax)
- Member Avatar next to his comment
- Member profile with avatar next to video
- Rate Video (Ajax)
- Add to favorites
- Flag Video (Inappropriate)
- Download Video in different formats (original/ipod/mpeg/smaller resolution/etc.)
- Display Related Videos
- Copy&Paste Perma-Link and Embeddable Code
- Member can report spam comments
- Basic Flash Player (play, pause, buffering, fullscreen, logo)
Video Upload / Conversion
- Step-by-step video upload for quick and easy uploading of videos
- Each video upload will have a video URL (Perma-Link) and a embeddable player HTML source code for users to put the video into web pages
- Original video can be saved for future new video format conversion
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Each video can be saved in different video sizes and formats:
- FLV
- VP6
- x264 (iphone/ipod compatible)
- mpeg4 (iphone/ipod compatible)
- Configure different conversion related settings: video and audio sample rate, bit-rate, video width & height
- Each video format can have own watermark image
- Selected video formats can be placed in special protected directory to be available just to members with paid membership (protected using lighttpd with mod_secdownload)
- Can display lower quality videos to free members and high quality videos to paid members
- Several screenshots can be taken from video to create animated video preview on mouse over
- Image filters make thumbnails sharper and better looking
- Maximum video size limit and file formats can be set
Pictures upload / conversion
- Maximum amount of images and file size limit can be set for public submission
- Images can be resized (downsized) to selected resolution
- Watermark can be added to each image
- Thumbnail size and compression can be set
- Thumbnail for each image is created with image filters to improve quality (imagemagick)
- Main thumbnail to represent gallery can be selected from created thumbnails
Interest Groups
- Browse groups by: Featured, Recently Added, Most Members, Most Videos and Most Galleries
- Members can create a new group and choose a unique group URL. Group owner can set the group type: Public, anyone can join. Protected, requires founder approval to join
- Group owner can edit group settings such as pre-approved video uploads, forum posting and set group image
- Build-in forum module in each group for members with common interest to interactive with each other and the ability to reply to a post
- View each group detail such as members, videos, picture galleries, group owner and group topics
- Group members can add videos and picture galleries to group
- Featured groups can be picked by hand or automatically by pre-set rules (minimal members count, videos, galleries etc.)
Registered users
- Users can upload profile avatar (photo) with option to manually select crop area from bigger image
- View/rate other member's profile and subscribe to the member's videos and galleries
- Save video playlist and favorite videos
- Upload videos and galleries
- Comments videos/galleries, user profile)
- Can create blog
- Can create groups
- Message other users and site admin
- Add/remove friends in the contact list
- Configure mail notifications about different events
- Modify own profile information
- Set site-wide niche filter, so straight users will not see gay or tranny content for example
Internal Messaging System
- Compose new messages just like any ordinary emails and send them to other members or site administrator
- View inbox/outbox messages
- Delete messages
Blogs
- Page showing last posts in users blogs
Widgets
- Users (affiliates) can create iframe with site content filtered by user/category to show up on own site with own affiliate code to promote your site and get credit for signups
Administrative / Config Features
User Management
- Display all members or by status (enabled/disabled, gender, age, country, user/webmaster, username/email/ip)
- Option to sort member by listing ID, Name, videos, galleries, views and submission limits
- Edit all aspects of member account
- Send email to each individual member
- Manually set membership expiration date, views and submission limit to selected user
- View/delete saved banners for webmaster accounts
Video Management
- Display all videos uploaded or by different filter criteria ()
- Sort video listings by date, duration, rating, views, featured status
- Edit/delete videos uploaded by members
- Display videos that are flagged by viewers as inappropriate and admin can delete video or remove the inappropriate request
- Search videos by video ID
- The administrator can choose to Approve Videos before they appear on the website. This function can be turned on or off.
- Configure different conversion related settings: video resample, resample width & height, sound quality (rate), video bit-rate, keep original videos, etc.
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Videos can be added several ways:
- Parse from gallery URL
- Upload from dis (several videos)
- Fetch from URL(s)
- Hotlink from URL(s)
- Bulk import of gallery URL's list, video URL's
- Bulk import from folder located on server
- Video preview thumbnail can be selected from range of made screenshots
Gallery management
- Display all galleries uploaded or by different filter criteria
- Sort galleries listings by date, pictures count, rating, views, featured status
- Edit/delete galleries uploaded by members
- Display galleries that are flagged by viewers as inappropriate and admin can delete gallery or remove the inappropriate request
- Display galleries that are requested by viewers to set as featured and admin can have the option to set gallery as featured listing or remove the request
- Search galleries by user
- The administrator can choose to Approve galleries before they appear on the website. This function can be turned on or off.
- Configure different conversion related settings: thumbnail and image width & height, compression quality, watermark, border cut (to remove ugly black borders)
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Galleries can be added several ways:
- Parse from gallery URL
- Upload from dis (several videos)
- Fetch from URL(s)
- Bulk import of gallery URL's list, image URL's
- Gallery preview thumbnail can be selected from range of preview thumbs made
Group Management
- Display all groups or by status (public/private/protected)
- Display group details such as owner contact, total video uploaded, members and group topics
- Admin can view group topic details such as topic title, dated created, author, number of posts and approval status
- Set a group as featured
- Ability to moderate group topics
- Ability to edit/delete groups
- Search for groups by ID or group name
- Ability to send an email to select group
Sponsor gallery system
- Pull galleries from a daily updated database with over 700k galleries from over 750 sponsors
- Your site is updated with new videos and pictures spidered from sponsor galleries
- Videos and galleries get automatically sorted into categories based on description keywords, tags are automatically created
- Appropriate ads can be added to each video or gallery, based on sponsor and paysite. You set them once and rest updates get them automatically.
- Search sponsor by niche, affiliate system
- Preview sponsor galleries before import
- Signup to new sponsors when they come available
- Add sponsor manually that are not in our sponsor database
- Switch sponsors updates ON or OFF
- 100% unattended operation as the script imports new content when available
- Thousands of new galleries added each day
- Ability to automatically build and update your site from XML feeds containing FLV videos (sponsor provided)
Payment Management
- Search in payment history by username, billing type and date range
- Graphical signup statistics
Site Settings
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System Configuration
- Ability to edit all aspects of site, videos/galleries per page, picture sizes
- Mail configuration
- Modules configuration (enable/disable menu items)
- Languages configuration (edit/add new languages)
- Edit system email templates
- Advanced video conversion configuration (video formats settings)
- Ban System (word, IP address, country)
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Paid membership Settings
- View/edit/delete membership packages
- Set several payment methods by package
- Set separate packages with different submission, views and membership length for common users and webmasters
- Pay per video/gallery credit system. Flat or per video length/pictures count pricing.
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Advertising
- Add unlimited advertising zones for video and picture galleries
- Ability to edit advertising zones using HTML
- Admin can enable/disable each advertising zone for webmasters banners
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Security limits
- Comment post and usage limits to avoid system cheats and misuse of user accounts for spamming
- Upload limits
- Default member view and submission limits
- Automatization of featured videos, galleries, groups
- and much more ...