Introduction
ClipBucket is open source script used for video sharing.It comes with very effective features like HQ video customization, Multiple language support, several video moderation tools.It uses FFMpeg, flash and HTML5 for streaming.It comes with media management and user management features. Recently ClipBucket article was published on unixmen.com based on CenOS Linux, refer below link to have a look
Installation and prerequisites
We will need a fresh installed Ubuntu 15.10, Apache. MySQL,FFMpeg, ImageMagic, and FLVTool.
Update system
apt-get update
Install Apache, MySQL
apt-get install apache2 mariadb-server
Install php and ruby packages
apt-get install php5 php5-mysql php5-curl php5-gd php5-cli ruby
Install other dependencies
Install FFMPEG
apt-add-repository ppa:mc3man/trusty-media
Sample output
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp624ee04k/secring.gpg' created gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp624ee04k/pubring.gpg' created gpg: requesting key ED8E640A from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com gpg: /tmp/tmp624ee04k/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created gpg: key ED8E640A: public key "Launchpad PPA for Doug McMahon" imported gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1) OK
Update System and install ffmpeg package
apt-get update && apt-get install ffmpeg
Install imagemagic
apt-get install imagemagick php5-imagick
Install flvtool2
gem install flvtool2
Sample output
Fetching: flvtool2-1.0.6.gem (100%) Successfully installed flvtool2-1.0.6 Parsing documentation for flvtool2-1.0.6 Installing ri documentation for flvtool2-1.0.6 Done installing documentation for flvtool2 after 1 seconds 1 gem installed
Install GPAC
apt-get install gpac mediainfo
Download package
wget http://netix.dl.sourceforge.net/project/clipbucket/ClipBucket%20v2/clipbucket-2.8.v3354-stable.zip
Create a database and a database user
mysql -u root -p
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MariaDB connection id is 43 Server version: 10.0.22-MariaDB-0ubuntu0.15.10.1 (Ubuntu) Copyright (c) 2000, 2015, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others. Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement. MariaDB [(none)]> create database unixmen; Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) MariaDB [(none)]> grant all on unixmen.* to 'unixmen'@'localhost' identified by 'P@ssw0rd'; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec) MariaDB [(none)]> \q;
Unzip downloaded folder and copy to web directory
unzip clipbucket-2.8.v3354-stable.zip -d /var/www/html/
Rename Package
cd /var/www/html mv clipbucket-2.8.v3354-stable/ clipbucket
Change permissions and ownership of Package
chown -R www-data:www-data clipbucket/ chmod -R 777 /var/www/data/clipbucket
Restart Apache service
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Open Browser
and type
ip_addr/clipbucket and proceed
Accept License Agreement and click to next, if all things looks good click to next
All file permission looks good, click next
Provide database credentials which you have created in database
Change admin password, save settings and continue
Skip and finish
Login to admin panel first then upload videos
Click to upload video and try to upload some videos
Thats It!
Conclusion
ClipBucket is very easy to use and deploy video sharing tool, first it was developed as a clone of YouTube but now is a very popular open source video sharing platform.
Have fun!!
