Embedding videos is the powerful way to manage and share videos and increase your website visibility on the web.
You can use Video Starter Kit - Advance Edition as a complete web application for managing, sharing and streaming embedded videos in ASP.NET.
Video Starter Kit support three types of content management.

• Site Videos: In this case only site videos will be allowed to be manage on website.
• Embedded Videos: In this case only third party videos via embedded script to be allowed on website.
  
• Both: In this case both site videos and third party videos allowed to be managed on website.

Embedding videos has lots of advantages.

• No disk space uses.
• No special encoding tool or sdk requires.
• No bandwidth consumes while streaming videos.
• Site performance maintain.

You can create embedded video solution for

• Managing your own contents, e.g upload on youtube and keep preserve on your own website.
• Create and manage collection of videos, e.g cars, fashion, celebrity, phones etc.
• and lots of other usages.

Setting up embedding option:
You can set embedded option in Video Starter Kit - Advance Edition by following the following steps.
i: Go to control panel - > configuration.
ii: Click on Advance tab and choose "Video Uploading Option" as "Embed Videos".
iii: Click on update button to save your changes.

Live Demohttp://www.carstvcentral.com/videos/Default.aspx

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Microsoft Silverlight is a web application framework that provides functionalities similar to those in Adobe Flash.
Video Starter Kit - Advance Edition can be work as SilverLight web application to provide features for streaming wmv videos through silverlight players instead of flash streaming.
Configuring Silverlight Player / Streaming in Video Starter Kit - Advance Edition.
You can easily configure video starter kit to publish videos in wmv format and later stream through silverlight player.
Steps:
i: Go to control panel -> configuration.
ii: Click on Advance tab and choose output type as "Silverlight WMV"
iii: Click update button to save your settings.
After choosing Silverlight WMV all videos will be encoded in wmv streaming format so that it will be stream through silverlight player.
Silverlight Player:
The following silverlight player used in Video Starter Kit - Advance Edition.
http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-wmv-player/
You can also use your own silverlight player.
Live Demo:
http://www.remix-video.com/video/391/wmv-silverlight-video-testing.aspx

Your feedback or suggestion appreciated.
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Video Starter Kit - Advance Edition ver 5.1 Release with lots of improvements and new features.
New Features:
New features added in VSK - AE ver 5.1 are

• Archive contents.
• Set Meta information and Page title for dynamic and static pages from centralize location. This will help you to set Meta information and page title for pages easily without changing data on every page. It will ease your work if you setup Video Starter Kit Advance Edition for variety of purposes.
• Improved google sitemap for posting contents (tags, categories, videos) to google via sitemap.
• Fully compatible with ASP.NET Photo Sharing Script & ASP.NET Blog Kit">ASP.NET Blog Kit.
• Lots of more improvements in control panel and main section.

For complete detail about Video Starter Kit - Advance Edition (Youtube Clone) visit
http://www.mediasoftpro.com/vsk50/user-guide/index.html

Your suggestion, comments and feedbacks important for improving features and funtionality of Video Starter Kit - Advance Edition.
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ASP.NET Kit s a complete code for posting, managing, reading and sharing across other blog engines via RSS or Feed Burners. It is also written in (c#, vb.net) and fully compatible with Video Starter Kit - Advance Edition.
It include all basic and advance features that is required for building Blog / Article website in ASP.NET.
It is released as a plugin for Video Starter Kit - Advance Edition.
Main Feature Includes

• Posting articles & blog posts with all actions including BBCode supported.
• Managing blogs in listings (Main Listing, Categorizing, Tagging, Archiving etc)
• Advance blog preview with all options for sharing, rating, commenting photos.
• Blog listing via RSS.
  
• Admin management.
• and lots of more features.

 You can easily integrate it into your existing Video Starter Kit - AE solution by just follow the simple instructions written in read me file.


Live Demo:
http://www.carstvcentral.com/blogs/Default.aspx

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ASP.NET Photo Sharing Script is a complete code for storing, managing and sharing photos and images on the web. It is written in (c# , vb.net) and fully compatible with Video Starter Kit - Advance Edition. It include all features that is required for building highly complex photo sharing web applications.
It is released as a plugin for Video Starter Kit - Advance Edition.
Main Feature Includes

• Uploading photos
• Managing photos in listings (Main Listing, Categorizing, Tagging, etc)
• Advance photo preview with all options for sharing, rating, commenting photos.
• Archiving photos.
• Admin management.
• and lots of more features.

ASP.NET Photo Sharing Script is totally compatible with Video Starter Kit - Advance Edition. You can easily integrate it into your existing Video Starter Kit - AE solution by just follow the simple instructions written in read me file.

Live Demo:
http://www.carstvcentral.com/photos/Default.aspx

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Media Sharing Script:
Script that is used for managing, publishing, sharing and streaming videos on the web across different platforms and devices is call Media Sharing Script.
ASP.NET Video Starter Kit is a Media Sharing Script written in .NET Framework (c# and vb.net) to help developers and users to setup video streaming application on the web easily. It is specially built for ASP.NET technology and platform and work in almost every tool that is directly and indirectly related to ASP.NET. It is currently available in two packages.
    * Video Starter Kit - Light Edition.
    * Video Starter Kit - Advance Edition.
Here we will discuss important points and features of Video Starter Kit Advance Edition. For more detail about Video Starter Kit - Light Edition click here.

Video Starter Kit - Advance Edition:
Video Starter Kit - Advance Edition is a complete media sharing script, asp.net youtube clone and asp.net video portal with all basic and advance features that helps developer and user to build highly scalable and sophisticated social media sharing web applications.
Video Starter Kit - Advance Edition not only provide video features but have lots of more features that make a web application social networking website and more.
Difference between Video Starter Kit - Light Edition and Advance Edition is,
Video Stater Kit - Advance Edition have additional features including.

• HTTP pseudo-streaming.
• Microsoft SilverLight Supported.
• Private messaging board. (youtube style).
• Advance youtube style public profile / channel management with multiple themes and various options for user.
• Advance youtube style communities and groups management wit
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Media Sharing Script:
Script that is used for managing, publishing, sharing and streaming videos on the web across different platforms and devices is call Media Sharing Script.
ASP.NET Video Starter Kit is a Media Sharing Script written in .NET Framework (c# and vb.net) to help developers and users to setup video streaming application on the web easily. It is specially built for ASP.NET technology and platform and work in almost every tool that is directly and indirectly related to ASP.NET. It is currently available in two packages.

• Video Starter Kit - Light Edition.
• Video Starter Kit - Advance Edition.

Here we will discuss important points and features of Video Starter Kit Light Edition.

Video Starter Kit - Light Edition:
Video Starter Kit  - Light Edition is a complete Media Sharing Script / Video Portal written in .NET Framework (C#, VB.NET) with all basic features that is required to built video sharing web application.
Video Starter Kit - Light Edition mainly focus on video related tasks including,

• Vid
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When you encode normal video (4:3 aspect ration) to widescreen (16:9) video, or in reverse widescreen to normal video, video is stretch out and in result output distorted or bad in view and quality.
In order to avoid video stretching out and keep aspect ratio of video persistent, you can use technique called pillars. This is the "pure" method as it does not distort or lose any part of the original video or image. In this technique you will calculate space and add padding accordingly on proper direction to keep the aspect ratio of video consistent.
Logic to calculate padding size and direction.

1: Widescreen (16:9) to Normal (4:3) video conversion:

Example:
i: Calculate width and height of source video (16:9): e.g 800x450 = 1.7777.
ii: Width and height of normal video that you want to publish e.g 320x240 = 1.333.
iii: Actual widescreen height of video based on output width : 320/1.77777 = 180.
iv: Calculate the difference between normal height and widescreen height = 240 - 180 = 60.
v: Divide 60 in two pieces will get the padding size for each side of video 60/2 = 30.
vi: In case of widescreen to normal conversion, difference comes in height so you will add padding on top and bottom of video.
So parameters for widescreen video (800x450) to normal video (320x240) conversion without stretching is

• Width: 320px
• Height: 180px
• Padding Top: 30px
• Padding Bottom: 30px

The result video size will be 320x240 or (4:3 aspect ratio) video.

You can achieve same settings through  ASP.NET Media Handler Pro as
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      _mhandler.Width = 320;
      _mhandler.Height = 180;
      _mhandler.PadTop = 30;
  
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Flash Video files can be stream & delivered in several different ways on the web. Main delivery options are.

• As a standalone .FLV file.
• Embedded in SWF file using Flash Authoring Tool.
  
• Progressive Download via HTTP.
• Streaming via RTMP to the Flash Player using Flash Media Server.

Standalone .FLV File:
It is the normal way to deliver Flash video using a Flash player to control. The .FLV file itself is only playable with an FLV player.
Embedded in SWF File:
In this approach, the entire file must be transferred before playback can begin. Changing the video requires rebuilding the SWF file.
Streaming via RTMP to the Flash Player using Flash Media Server.
Streamed via RTMP to the Flash Player using the Flash Media Server (formerly called Flash Communication Server).
Progressive Download via Http:
This method uses ActionScript to include an externally hosted Flash Video file for playback. Progressive download has serveral advantages, including buffering, use of generic HTTP servers and the ability to reuse a single SWF player for multiple Flash Video sources.
In this way you can access video files using the partial download functionality of HTTP, sometime referred to as streaming.
However, unlike streaming using RTMP, HTTP "streaming" does not support real-time broadcasting.

Streaming via HTTP requires a custom player and the injection of specific Flash video metadata containing the exact starting position in bytes and timecode of easy keyframe. Using this specific information, a custom Flash Video player can request any part of the Flash Video file starting at a
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ASP.NET Media Handler Pro is an ASP.NET video encoding utility that provide ability to publish / encode any format videos from one format to another format, prepare videos to be stream on the web, grab single / multiple thumbs, post watermark, retrieve information from videos and perform lots of other useful video processing tasks.
You can use ASP.NET Media Handler Pro component in any applications that is compatible with Microsoft .NET Framework.
Application may include.

• ASP.NET web applications written in C# or VB.NET.
• .NET windows based applications.
• .NET web services.
• .NET win services.
• and more.

Main purpose of ASP.NET Media Handler Pro is to

• Encode videos to be stream and play on variety of devices and web browsers.
• Grab thumbs to represent videos in galleries.
• Post watermark on videos while encoding to protect copyright contents.
• Prepare online streaming videos (Flash Videos etc) to be playable on variety of devices.
• Prepare different format audio files from videos.
• and more.

In case of ASP.NET applications, ASP.NET Media Handler Pro can be used on both shared hosting plans that support full trust asp.net configuration & dedicated servers.

You can download ASP.NET Media Handler Pro trial version from
http://www.mediasoftpro.com/downloads.html

ASP.NET Media Handler Pro Documentation:
http://www.mediasoftpro.com/mediahandlerpro-v4-documentation.html

We appreciate your feedback for improving ASP.NET Media Handler Pro functionality more to make it more useful for your needs.
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