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VIDEO HOSTING SITE
Under the Guidance Of

Mr. SUMIT AGGARWAL

on
02-Dec-09

SUBMITTED BY

SUGANDHA AGARWAL

UDIT MISHRA

VARSHA GUPTA

VIBHUTI SINGH

VISHAL TYAGI

ALL THE ABOVE MENTIONED STUDENTS ARE OF B.TECH. (I.T.) 3RD YEAR.
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Contents

Introduction to video hosting service4

1. Purpose of video hosting site(users)...4

2. Key characteristics of video sharing as a service....5
3. Scope..5
4. References..7

Overall description....8

1. Product perspective8
2. Product features8
3. User classes & characteristics..8
4. General constraints.9
5. Operating environment9

External interface requirements...10

1. User interfaces.10
2. Software interfaces..11
2.1. Server site system requirements .11
2.2. User site system requirements .12
2.3. Content management system.12
2.3.1. Capabilities....13
2.3.2. Types..15
2.3.3. Online processing..15

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2.3.4. Hybrid systems.........15

2.3.5. Web content management system and history.....15

3. Hardware interfaces...16
4. Communication interfaces..16
5. Performance requirements.16

Video stream search.....16

1. Description and prioroity.16
2. Stimulus/response sequences..17
3. Functional requirement.17

Data flow diagram19

1. Data flow diagram level-019

2. Data flow diagram level-119

Use Case Diagram21

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INTRODUCTION TO VIDEO HOSTING SERVICE

A video hosting service allows individuals to upload video clips to an Internet website. The
video host will then store the video on its server, and show the individual different types of
code to allow others to view this video. The website, mainly used as the video hosting website,
is usually called the video sharing website.

Because many users do not have unlimited web space, either as a paid service, or through an
ISP offering, video hosting services are becoming increasingly popular, especially with the
explosion in popularity of blogs, forums, and other interactive pages.

The mass market for camera phones has increased the supply of user-generated video.
Traditional methods of personal video distribution, such as making a DVD to show to friends at
home, are unsuited to the low resolution and high volume of camera phone clips. In contrast,
current broadband Internet connections are well suited to serving the quality of video shot on
mobile phones. Most people do not own web servers, and this has created demand for user-
generated video content hosting, which the likes of YouTube are catering to.

Mobile video hosting

A more recent application of the video hosting services is in the mobile web 2.0 arena,
where video and other mobile content can be delivered to, and easily accessed by mobile
devices. While video-hosting services such as YouTube have developed means by which
video can be watched on mobile devices, mobile-oriented web-based frontends for video
hosting services that possess equal access and capability to desktop oriented web services
have yet to be developed.
Mobile live streaming software called Qik allows the users to upload videos from their cell
phones to the internet. The videos will then be stored online and can be shared to
various social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Videos will be stored on
the servers and can be watched from both the mobile devices and the website.

Purpose of video hosting site (USERS)

Save on bandwidth costs, often eliminating costs entirely

Creating a common place

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Make a hassle-free experience, where uploading a video

and streaming or embedding would normally require advanced programming knowledge. It
is now commonly achieved through a web browser, with little or no programming
experience.

Key characteristics of Video Sharing as a Service:

The application is delivered primarily in a one-to-many model (single instance, Multi-

tenant architecture)
Feature updates are done in the network and are transparent to the users, which eliminates
the need for downloadable patches and upgrades
Edge devices (cameras and recorders) are plug-and-play - all customer premise equipment
connects to the video service without requiring configuration by the customer
All application functionality is available via the Internet using a web interface without
requiring an application installed on a desktop
Provides centrally controlled/administered access that is mandatory for proper security and
allows centralized administration of users and video, making it easy to add or remove users
Scalable to hundreds or thousands of locations
Provides ability to view not only live video but also to search and review recorded video
Works through firewalls and NAT devices without configuration, and will run over low
speed, high speed, and satellite connections

SCOPE

Video sharing refers to websites or software where users can distribute their video clips. Some
services may charge, but the large majority of them offer free services. Many services have
options for private sharing and other publication options. Video sharing services can be
classified into several categories, among them: user generated video sharing websites, video
sharing platform / white label providers and web based video editing. Please note that websites

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that are solely search engines and do not provide the hosting of their video content (such
as Singingfish) is not included in this article.

User generated video sharing

User generated sites mostly offer free services whereby users can upload video clips and
share it with the masses. Many sites place restrictions on the file size, duration, subject
matter and format of the uploaded video file. Most sites don't allow nudity, though each
site makes judgment calls on what qualifies as inappropriate content. Some sites also flag
adult material to keep it out of their public pool of content. Some sites screen all their
content before it is published and others approve first and use community features to filter
out inappropriate content "after-the-fact." Website in this category are: Facebook, Flickr,
Gubb (Gubb.tv)
Video sharing platform/ White label Providers

Platform and White Label Providers sell the technology to various parties that allow them to
create the services of the aforementioned "User Generated Video Sharing" websites with
the client's brand. Just as Akamai and other companies host and manage
video/image/audio for many companies, these white-labels "host video content". Many of
these companies also offer their own user-generated video sharing website both for
commercial purposes and to show off their platform. Websites in this category are: Clip-
Share, Homemovie.com.
Enterprise Video Hosting Providers
Enterprise video hosting sites are aimed at businesses wanting to share video content
internally with employees or externally with customers, partners, or prospects. Features
may include limiting access to authenticated users, tracking of user actions, integration
with single sign-onservices and a lack of the advertisements normally present on public
sites. Among sites in this category are: Brightcove, Kewego, TVtrip.com

Web based video editing

Web based video editing sites generally offer the "user generated video sharing" website in
addition to some form of editing application. Some of these applications simply allow the
user to crop a video into a smaller clip. Other services have invested much time and effort
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into replicating the same functionality that has previously only been available via Windows
Movie Maker, iMovie and other client-side applications that run outside of a web page.
Some of these applications are based in AJAX and others in Flash. Some websites also offer
downloadable editors but they will not be listed here due to the number of pre-existing
video editors. Websites in this category include (in alphabetical order): Homemovie.com,
YouTube

REFERENCES
Separate studies conducted by Vishal Tyagi, Udit Mishra, Vibhuti Singh, Sugandha Agarwal
and Varsha Gupta on video distribution within the home. All studies created on Nov 2009.
http://www.youtube.com, http://www.megavideo.com, http://www.facebook.com,
http://www.surfthechannel.com, http://www.google.com

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OVERALL DESCRIPTION

Product Perspective

The program is a new self-contained product. It has come about due to the demand for such a
product being identified in a series of Ethnography studies. From these studies we saw that the
main activity people used video for was the watch content found online. These people would
regularly spend periods of time searching websites to try and find the videos they wanted to
watch, either somewhere to stream the video from or the files to download the video. Our
system will aim to speed up this process.

Product Features

The main feature of the system will be a search engine for finding the location of videos and
streaming sites for videos on the internet. The user can specify which of the 2 or both to look
for. The results will be divided into the types that were specified using different tabs, and then
the results will be orderable by different categories, such as name, size, site, etc. The user will
have the option to filter out videos containing certain content depending on age restrictions,
for example adult content. In addition the user will have the option to filter out or only search
certain websites; for example a user may only want to look at videos on YouTube. They will
have the facility for users to store their favorite videos, so that they can come back to the video
at another time.

User Classes and Characteristics

There will be two levels of user for our system. The first will be the general user that will be
using our software to find their videos. They will only see the front end of the system. The
second level will be the system developers. They will be able to edit which sites the system will

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search, depending on whether they think the site is safe, compatible with respective softwares,
the speed at which the site can be searched, and how useful the site is to users, i.e. how many
results have come back from that site

General Constraints

Server capacity is how many users can access or can be online at once. More is the number of
users more will be the network traffic and hence the server comes in a down state. Personal
firewall and updating is a tough task, it should be such that it should not block the network
traffic, making the system slower. Firewall of the server should not collide with the firewall of
the user system.

Operating Environment

The system will be portable; this means it will work across different operating systems including
Microsoft XP and Vista, Mac OS X and a range of Linux platforms. Also it will work with different
web browsers, for example Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari.

The hardware needed for our system will be a reasonably up-to-date computer that is
connected to the internet via a modem.

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EXTERNAL INTERFACE REQUIREMENTS

User Interfaces

The user Interface will consist of one main screen, allowing all the functionally to come from
this one screen. This allows the user to use the software with ease by not flicking through a
number of different screens. In addition to this the user can always see the videos they are
looking for. The main screen will be laid out as in Appendix: B Diagram along with the
description of the diagram. We decided on this type of interface because we felt that it would
be very simple for the user to navigate. From our reports we found that the simpler the
interface was, the more people liked it.

With all these features complied into one screen it will give the software more flexibility and
allows for easy and simple usage. This will appeal to both nave computer users and
experienced computer users with a higher selling market.

Appendix B: Diagrams

1- The first feature of the software is a menu bar. This software includes the basic features used
in similar products such as new search, close, load etc. However with our software there are

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two extra features. These being a filter option which allows the user to set parental controls
over the software. This enables the user to be able to search for videos without getting explicit
content. In addition to this there is a favorites option. This feature gives the user the option of
being able to store links to their favorite videos in the software, and be able to go back to these
websites after restarting the software.
2- This is the main engine behind the software. This is where the user enters the name of the
video they wish to search for. Once the user has typed in the name of their desired video they
can either press the enter key or the search button to run the query.
3- These tick boxes tell the software to search for either torrents or streaming videos,
depending on what type of video the user wishes to view.
4- These are the tabs which bring up the different pages of the search results. This allows the
user.
5- This is where the actual search results will be displayed. Within these display fields the User
will be told the name of the video, the location of the video (which website the Video is on), the
size of the video so the user can decide if they wish to download the Video or just to stream the
video, the rating of the video with information on how safe The website is, and finally
comments on the video (what other user think of the video). With this the user can then decide
on how he wants the search results sorted using the Column headers at the top.

Software Interfaces
The software will use hyperlinks to allow the user to open websites in their default Web
browser.
Server Site system requirements

Unix/Linux operating system with 32-bit or 64-bit support

SQL database. MySQL pre-compiled binaries recommended

Apache2 (mpm-prefork) with SSL support

PHP5 with support for MySQL, OpenSSL, cURL, etc.

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Setup and configuration of: log rotation in cron jobs, virtual hosts, SSL certificates, RAID 5
storage or NAS/SAN storage in larger installations.

User Site System Requirements

In order to watch videos on such sites, user should make sure that his system has access to the
following system requirements:

Macromedia Flash Player 7.0+ plug-in

Windows 2000 or higher with latest updates installed
Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
Firefox 1.1+, Internet Explorer 5.0+ or Safari 1.0+
Broadband connection with 500+ Kbps

Content Management System

Web-content-management system (WCM, WCMS or Web CMS) is content management

system (CMS) software, implemented as a Web application, for creating and managing HTML
content. It is used to manage and control a large, dynamic collection of Web material (HTML
documents and their associated images). A WCMS facilitates content creation, content control,
editing, and essential Web maintenance functions.

The software provides authoring (and other) tools designed to allow users with little knowledge
of programming languages or markup languages to create and manage content with relative
ease.

Most systems use a database to store content, metadata, or artifacts that might be needed by
the system. Content is frequently, but not universally, stored as XML, to facilitate reuse and
enable flexible presentation options.[1][2]

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A presentation layer displays the content to Web-site visitors based on a set of templates. The
templates are sometimes XSLT files.[3]

Most systems use server side caching boosting performance. This works best when the WCMS
is not changed often but visits happen on a regular basis.[4]

Administration is typically done through browser-based interfaces, but some systems require
the use of a fat client.

Unlike Web-site builders, a WCMS allows non-technical users to make changes to a website
with little training. A WCMS typically requires an experienced coder to set up and add features,
but is primarily a Web-site maintenance tool for non-technical administrators.

a) Capabilities

A WCMS is a software system used to manage and control a dynamic collection of Web material
(HTML documents, images and other forms of media).[5] A CMS facilitates document control,
auditing, editing, and timeline management. A WCMS typically has:

Automated templates

Create standard output templates (usually HTML and XML) that can be automatically applied to
new and existing content, allowing the appearance of all content to be changed from one
central place.

Easily editable content

Once content is separated from the visual presentation of a site, it usually becomes much
easier and quicker to edit and manipulate. Most WCMS software includes WYSIWYG editing
tools allowing non-technical individuals to create and edit content.

Scalable feature sets

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Most WCMS software includes plug-ins or modules that can be easily installed to extend an
existing site's functionality.

Web standards upgrades

Active WCMS software usually receives regular updates that include new feature sets and keep
the system up to current web standards.

Workflow management

Workflow is the process of creating cycles of sequential and parallel tasks that must be
accomplished in the CMS. For example, a content creator can submit a story, but it is not
published until the copy editor cleans it up and the editor-in-chief approves it.

Delegation

Some CMS software allows for various user groups to have limited privileges over specific
content on the website, spreading out the responsibility of content management.

Document management

CMS software may provide a means of managing the life cycle of a document from initial
creation time, through revisions, publication, archive, and document destruction.

Content virtualization

CMS software may provide a means of allowing each user to work within a virtual copy of the
entire Web site, document set, and/or code base. This enables changes to multiple
interdependent resources to be viewed and/or executed in-context prior to submission.

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b) Types

There are three major types of WCMS: offline processing, online processing, and hybrid
systems. These terms describe the deployment pattern for the WCMS in terms of when
presentation templates are applied to render Web pages from structured content.

c) Online processing (called "frying" systems)

These systems apply templates on-demand. HTML may be generated when a user visits the
page, or pulled from a cache.

Most open source WCMSs have the capability to support add-ons, which provide extended
capabilities including forums, blog, wiki, web-stores, photo-galleries, contact-management, etc.
These are often called modules, nodes, widgets, add-ons or extensions. Add-ons may be based
on an open-source or paid licence model.

Different WCMSs have significantly different feature-sets and target audiences.

d) Hybrid Systems

Some systems combine the offline and online approaches. Some systems write out executable
code (e.g. JSP, ASP, PHP, ColdFusion, or Perl pages) rather than just static HTML, so that the
CMS itself does not need to be deployed on every Web server. Other hybrids, operate in either
an online or offline mode.

e) Web content management system history

Web content management systems began to be formally developed as commercial software

products in the mid 1990s. In the mid 2000s, the web content management market became a
fragmented market as a plethora of new providers emerged to complement the traditional
vendors. These web content management systems may be categorized as: software as a
service, enterprise, mid-market, or open source.

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Hardware Interfaces
The external hardware interface used for accessing the video hosting sites is the personal
computers of the users. The PCs may be laptops, notebooks, netbooks with internet
connections as a wireless connection, via modems, or broadband.

Communications Interfaces

Communication standards that will be used through the software will be PHP or Other such
languages. These will be used to query the different servers that the Websites use and will give
us back.

Performance Requirements

Query times will take no longer than 5 seconds to any website.

Sending the hyperlink to the default browser will take less than 1 second.

Loading the program will take less than 10 seconds.

Any result with 0 seeds will not be displayed.

Sorting results should take less than 0.1 seconds.

A results page will display 100 results.

Any result with a rating of less than 1 will not be displayed.

Video Stream Search

Description and Priority

This feature will search a term the user enters, through a database of compatible video
streaming websites that are added by the development team. The video websites will range
from sites that actually host video such as MegaVideo, YouTube, etc as well as websites that
show links to videos hosted on other sites such as surfthechannel.com, alluc.org, etc. The
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results will be displayed in a tab on the programs main window. This tab will be split
horizontally into two sections, the top half for the video hosting sites and the bottom half for
the video link sites. This is another of the main features of the software and also has a higher
priority for development.

Stimulus/Response Sequences

User ticks streaming host tick box system will now query the video hosting sites in its
database when a search is started. Hosting sites will include the actual videos on their servers,
e.g. YouTube. User ticks streaming links tick box system will now query the video link sites in
its database when a search is started. The link sites will include external video links to different
video hosting sites, e.g. surfthechannel.com. User enters search term and starts search
system sends queries to the video websites in its database based on the search term. Results
for this query will then be sent to the video stream tab in the program. The hosting half of the
tab displays the website, full video name, length and date posted. The link half of the tab
displays the website and video name (e.g. combination of the shows name and the episode
name). User sorts the search results by clicking once on the column header system sorts all
results by descending/ascending order. User filters websites they want to be shown in the
results system removes unselected websites from the results. User clicks on next page button
system displays the next set of results for the search.

Functional Requirements

Streaming search will share the same search bar with the torrent search.
Database of video hosting and video linking sites can be updated via the internet.
There will be a tick box to allow the user to choose to include video host searching in the
search
There will be a tick box to allow the user to choose to include video link searching in the
search.

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Query to video hosting sites will retrieve full video name, length, date posted and a link to
the video itself.
Query to video link sites will retrieve the shows name, episode name and a link to the
webpage itself.
If no results are found on a search it will display a message No results were found for this
search.
Results will be arranged in length/date/alphabetical order by clicking on the column
headers.
There will be page button for the user to navigate the results.

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DATA FLOW DIAGRAM

Data flow diagram level-0

Data flow diagram level-1

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USE CASE DIAGRAM

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