Create a YouTube clone using Drupal and Flash video

Having your own video sharing website similar to ouTube, BlipTV, Revver etc. is possible using a few add on modules to the base Drupal install. Because there are so many modules for Drupal there is of course more than one way to do this but this site receipe

If you want to create a site like YouTube there is an easy way to do this using open source software. The following things are necessary to start a video site:

1. Drupal already installed on your server.
2. The ffmpeg package on your server. Ffmpeg allows you to convert all major video formats (including mobile video) to flash playable (.flv) files. This is a flash playable format used by YouTube, Facebook and numerous other sites.

* Ffmpeg can be a problem for many people to setup because some hosts do not have it and will not add it to your hosting package if you request it. The solution to this is to use a pre-compiled ffmpeg binary or download it from the ffmpeg site and compile a version of it on your own. This site http://amoffit.googlepages.com/ffmpegbinaryforlinux has a pre-compiled binary that you can download and place on your server. You can also check out the Gallery 2 Installation Requirements page for other sources of pre-compiled binaries http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Installation_Requirements

3. Drupal Flash Video module. You can download it from the project site http://drupal.org/project/flashvideo. After installation you need to configure your module to work with the content types you want (blog post, story etc.) which embeds the video in any node type in the Drupal System using the simple [video] tag.

You can find complete documentation/tutorial on this web site: Flash Video in Drupal 5: A complete multimedia tutorial.