Our site has lately been subject to misuse.

Especially the demo installation has been abused to place spam. In fact, about every 5 to 10 seconds, a new spam entry has been created in the database. I’ve taken measures to prevent this and hope the demo system is usable again. Please report any new problems here.

Finally, after over a year of development, videoDB 3.0 has finally been released. New feature and improved functionality include:

• Elegant template finally enabled with AJAX fancyness
• Database upgraded to utf8 – you can now have videos of various languages in one db
• Out-of-the-box thumbnail generation for better image quality and performance
• Out-of-the-box support for PDF export
• Various performance fixes
• Total rewrite of the multiuser code- better performance and easier extensible in the future

To grab your copy, please visit our SourceForge projcet site:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=88349

If you want to support videoDB, you can nominate it for the SourceForge Community Choice Award. To participate (category Multimedia?), see here:

http://sourceforge.net/community/cca08-nominate?group_id=88349

Thank to all you for your support!
Andi

Just released 3.0b5.

Main changes are bugfix of user cookie error when public access was disabled and removal of Amazon ECS (amazonxml) engine. Amazon has discontinued this service. Potential replacement could be the new A2S- plugin is under development.

After upgrading demo site to PHP5, the youTube search is now publicly available for testing. To evaluate, drill down to a single movie and click the “Show trailers” link.

Upgraded videoDB demo to current CVS version. Contains new multi-user code that should fix some of the open issues. Generally, we should see some performance increases and more secure, better maintainable code.

Demo no longer requires login but can now be accessed as anonymous user.

videoDB demo site has been upgraded to the latest 3.0b3 version, too.

To see all the latest features, make sure you’re using the “elegant” template. Currently “elegant” is the only ajax-enabled tempalte providing all functionality.

videoDB v3.0 beta 3 has just been released.

This beta contains ajax enhancements (image zoom) and partial rewrite of the multiuser permissions systems- this was necessary as the old code contained various bugs and ambiguities. Rewrite also allowed drastic decrease in number of SQL queries which should improve performance in hosting environments.

I’ve investigated using ProtoFlow for the next version of videoDB. Initial results look _very_ promising: