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bump…i would like to know the answer to this as well

@rickkumar – re: “I was wondering if folks at WordPress/BuddyPress can either provide web hosting” I think you may be confused to the nature of BuddyPress – it’s not a company with officials, structure, funds, etc. to set up / negotiate hosting contracts. BuddyPress is an open source software project, albeit one that is strictly controlled [...]

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Rick, automatic naming of the created albums would be PERFECT!

It takes absolutely any complexity out of the plugin and would make for a perfect setup.
If that could be done that would be briliant.
Is that possible foxly?

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I forget. Why don’t you install it and check…

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Yup, I’m there… and here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin

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Great idea! Hmm… my first REAL contribution. Cool
There’s gotta be a “How to Build a Plugin” tutorial around here somewhere…

I’m back. …so, just to answer everyone’s questions: @rickkumar Q1: Per my understanding, videos/audios won’t take any storage/bandwidth on our site if all these are embedded by our members or us. For example, if videos are embedded from youtube, then it will take youtube bandwidth. Right? That’s true, but remember, YouTube is not run by idiots. [...]

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Here’s something else you may want to consider for a video-centric site like yours:

http://videopress.com/

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buddy press currently don;t allow such a feature. i dunno any plugins doing either

http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/changing-name-of-groups-page/

look at this.. u can rename the current group component to pages if you wish ..

@rickkumar if you aren’t looking to host the videos yourself I don’t see why you would need this plugin. If all the videos are going to be from youtube or vimeo or other sites, you just need to work on your page layouts and design.

@rickkumar No I’m pretty sure all it does is converts the youtube url to an emdbeded video. If you are wanting individual pages for each video, I’ve read a bit about a “group blog” plugin or feature, each group would have its own blog and I would think then members of a group could post articles [...]

@rickkumar you know if all you want to do is allow people to embed their videos on your social network, you don’t even need to wait for this plugin, just use

http://buddypress.org/community/groups/oembed-for-buddypress

@rickkumar Sounds interesting man, good luck! You might want to go ahead and get a standard Buddypress community going though just to keep the 100 visits a day from loosing interest. You can get a head start on building the community this way, then in a month or two when this media plugin is stable and [...]

@rickkumar In general, when picking a CMS for a web application you’ll always want to go with an “open source” application. In terms of availability of information, add-ons, and raw progress, nobody out there can compete with WordPress / BuddyPress. 1. Can BuddyPress (along with BPMedia plugin) be used for a video portal social network? Yes. [...]