Here are a few screenshots i’ve taken from the demo of video sharing script

There are 2 pages of settings .

Step 1: login as admin.

This is the account you created while installing vidiscript.After login find the admin menu on the right side of the page,you’ll probably will have to scroll down a little bit.

Admin Menu

• New Uploads (0 New)
• Manage Media
• Manage Users
• Manage Video Ads
• Manage Site Ads
• Manage Categories
• Manage Email Text
• Manage Menus
• Manage News
• Bad Words Filter
• Site Settings
• Site Features

The last 2 links “Site Settings”  and “Site Features”  are the ones which help you configure vidiscript.

Site Settings

Site Features

Well these setting are pretty much self explanatory.

Pls ask any questions in the comment section below so that the answers are useful for others as well.

This tutorial is being written as an intro for people would like to have their own personal youtube at home and would like to use vidiscript to achieve that.

These are the few basic steps that we will go through in this tutorial.

1) Download and Install a webserver and database (WAMP).

2) Install video conversion dependencies (ffmpeg).

3) Download and Install vidiscript(version)

4) Configure PHP parameters (php.ini)

Steps 3 and 4 are to be performed side by side.

STEP 1: Installing a webserver.

This is a fairly simple procedure ,  I’ve used WAMP2 . Download and install the software ,it’s simple matter of clicking next.

Note the default install does not have a password for mysql. While running the wamp server Vista will ask if you want to allow this program ,you’ll have to.

Once the program is installed ,run it by finding startWampserver from the start menu. When the icon near the clock usually the bottom right corner of the screen turns green we are good to go.

Click on the green W icon -> select phpmyadmin and create a blank database named “vidiscript”, you could call it mickey_mouse if you wanted to .

Step 2:  Installing FFMPEG.

This dude has done a very good job of explaining and providing correct links from where to download and how to install FFMPEG , CREDIT goes to JAY. Just follow it blindly ,do not skip any steps .

At the end of this installation ,pls make a note of the location/path of where you’ve installed ffmpeg.exe we’ll need this later. In my case i’ve put ffmpeg.exe in c:\wamp\bin\ so the path to note is c:\wamp\bin\ffmpeg.exe\

Step 3: Register on vidiscript and download the latest version. Unzip the installation folder in c:\wamp\www\ .I’ve renamed the folder to vidiscript removing the version numbers. So the unzipped folder is now called vidiscript.

Point your browser to localhost/vidiscript/install

You will see a bunch of problems detected by vidiscript  .

We jump to step 4

STEP 4 : Configuring php.ini

Click on the green wamp icon, mouse over to “php” click on php.ini in the submenu.

once the file is open we’ll use ctrl + f to find the right parameters and change their values.

These are the possible problem values

• max_execution_time: 30 (we recommend 1000)
• max_input_time: 30 (we recommend 1000)
• upload_max_filesize: 2M(we recommend 200M)
• post_max_size: 8M (we recommend 200M)
• register_argc_argv: 1 OK
• open_basedir: no value OK
• safe_mode: off OK

Try changing one setting first and then refresh the page in the web-browser that’s showing these errors.

This memory limit bit right above this line is not necessary but it’s good to have ,as it will provide more space for conversion of your file uploads.

similarly find the next bits

• upload_max_filesize: 2M(we recommend 200M)
• post_max_size: 8M (we recommend 200M)
• register_argc_argv: 1 OK

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; File Uploads ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

; http://php.net/upload-max-filesize
upload_max_filesize = 512M

 Similarly handle

similarly handle the  post_max_size: 8M (we recommend 200M)

and any other.

so at the end of this exercise your page should look green except for ffmpeg

Encoders Installed:

• FFMPEG – FFMPEG is not installed at /usr/bin/ffmpeg – please set the path to FFMPEG in admin settings after you have installed VidiScript

However if you do see this screen do not continue, as installation will not work.

GOTO this section in php.ini

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Error handling and logging ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

Scroll down and find this setting

 display_errors = On

and change it to

display_errors = Off

That’s it , refresh the page and you’ll be able to continue.

Now back to step 3,

Database name is the name you created in step 1 should be called “vidiscript” may be you called it “mickey_mouse”.

Enter that name , Host name = localhost.

username= root and password =

password is blank don’t type anything there and click next.

Now on this page only one setting needs special attention

Site Folder (eg. if you have uploaded to ‘http://yoursite.com/myfolder’ enter ‘myfolder’ (not ‘myfolder/’) or leave blank if root folder)

If you are following this tutorial closely then your should have a directory

c:\wamp\www\vidiscript\ assuming you’ve install your wamp server in c:\wamp\

you need to type “vidiscript” this is quite important. so do this carefully.

Click next . and click on the link to get to your site.

Login with your admin credentials you created a minute ago. Hope you didnt forget the password .

On the right hand side strip Click on “Site Settings ” then click on “Encoding”

Remember the ffmpeg path we were talking about in step 2 , well paste that here.

In my case or if you are following the tutorial closely, it should be

Server path for FFMPEG        =      c:\wamp\bin\ffmpeg.exe

That’s it. You are now ready to upload your videos and share it over the wifi network inside your house

Actually you could show it over the internet with little effort. Any way that’s all folks.

Pls comment or complain if the information is not enough or not well organized, suggestions and corrections are welcome.

• stops users changing titles to include ” and therefore damaging database
• fixes damaged .inc files causing admin errors
• updates flowplayer to latest version
• plus a few other minor tweaks.

You can get this for FREE (as always) from our site directly at http://www.vidiscript.co.uk/download-vidiscript

Lots of other exciting stuff coming soon, new templates, further updates and development of Vidiscript, mods and more

This also changes the images just rename your images (what ever you want) but for this example will use images as 1st.jpg ,2nd.jpg 3rd.jpg 4th.jpg
What this will do is it changes your images on the front page of vidiscript every hour or every 12 hours you can set it to what you want. Note keep all images in same directory.
Insert the below into the <HEAD> section of your page (Index.php)

<script type="text/javascript">// <![CDATA[
day=new Date() //..get the date x=day.getHours() //..get the hour if(x>=0 && x<4) {

}
// ]]></script>

PLEASE NOTE VIDISCRIPT.CO.UK TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY PROBLEMS ARISING AS A RESULT OF THIS TUTORIAL

(Thanks to Dan9078 for this)

This tutorial will enable you to change your background’s colour every time some one goes to your websitel.

Description:
This simple script randomises ths background color of your page each time it’s loaded. Specify any number of colors for the script to choose from.

Example:
Reload the page to see a different random color.

Directions:
Just insert the following code into the <BODY> section of your page.

<script>

document.body.style.background=bgcolorlist[Math.floor(Math.random()*bgcolorlist.length)]
</script>

PLEASE NOTE VIDISCRIPT.CO.UK TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY PROBLEMS ARISING AS A RESULT OF THIS TUTORIAL

We are collating a list of these and are planning to implement the fixes for most of these into our own release of Vidiscript – most likely this will be the start of our forked version of Vidiscript (yet to be named)! We plan to release our own Vidiscript version 1.0.4 (yeah not official but such is life) which will include the newest version of Flowplayer, fix a couple of bugs and have a few other cosmetic changes.

Our next step is at the end of January to be working on our further release to correct the majority of other bugs we find this month.

If you have any thoughts on this, or know of any bugs you want to point out let us know here or in the forums.

Vidiscript.co.uk now has a direct download for Vidiscript 1.0.3 we will be working on developing this project over time.