By jjster on

Trying to evaluate between Joomla and Drupal and other CMS....

What add-ons should I use to develop a YouTube-like website?

1) Statistics such as top-rated, most viewed, most discussed etc
2) Real-time video
3) Searching with different languages
4) Channel subscription
5) Personal page
6) Personalization

Thanks...

Comments

kranklin’s picture

kranklin commented

I'm relatively new to Drupal so I'd rather not give my input on that but as far as the Real-time video - Depending on how much traffic you expect to have, I hope you have the bandwidth.

I assume you would use Flash for the live video, although I haven't dealt with it for a couple years now. You will need some sort of server-side app for the streaming real-time video. You can use Adobe Flash Media Server ( http://www.adobe.com/products/flashmediaserver/ ) for it but last time I checked it was very expensive. An open source alternative is Red 5 ( http://www.osflash.org/red5 ) and plan on getting your hands (really) dirty with Java, Flash, and Actionscript.

ceejayoz’s picture

ceejayoz commented

As far as I know, there's no need for Flash Media Server for a YouTube-like site. You can use ffmpeg to generate .flv files from most video formats that can be served to the browser from just about anywhere.

coreyp_1’s picture

coreyp_1 commented

Cloning YouTube is not straightforward, although some are kicking around the idea.

I will say that I think Drupal is better suited to handle it than Joomla!, but that's just because of personal bias. :)

- Corey

juliendorra’s picture

juliendorra commented

Hi,

as far as video is concerned, a youtube-like website should be possible with Drupal, and a dedicated server running ffmpeg:

http://www.travistidwell.com/flashvideo

http://drupal.org/project/flashvideo

or, maybe, by using the openpackage.biz paid conversion service via this other flash module:

http://drupal.org/project/op_video

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I am not sure what Joomla could do, but I found that Drupal Modules are more useful, because they frequently do one specific task (they are more granularized), and help you build something based on them.

CCK module and Views module are just by themselves what makes Drupal above many CMS, including IMHO Joomla.