[schlottkej]

Here is my redesign of the current system:

http://www.thewrestlingtalk.com/videos/

It's rather basic changes.. We moved the related/popular video portion of the sidebar to the right sidebar. This allows for more categories.


Things I'd like to see added in the future:

Auto Importing of Playlists into a category
Would love to see the progression of the "Import" feature be added to BULK loading. Would save a lot of time.

Category Tags
Top XX tags in the category being browsed

Video Linking
Sometimes a video can go into two of your categories.. allow a "linked" copy to be duplicated.

Cross Selling
Allow videos related to the video be selected to "ALWAYS" appear in related videos

Advanced Categories
Allow categories to only be displayed when they are in the parent category. Do not show every category under a tree.

Why? This allows for more organization within the menu and allows for a more user friendly experience once you have a lot of videos.

Example?


Auto Tagging
Based on current tags. If the title contains tags they are added on import.

Why? The way Youtube does it, each word is its own tag.

Example? Say its a video on Blue Colored Contacts... having three tags, "Blue", "Colored", and "Contacts" is useless, but if you had tags already set as, "Blue Contacts", "Colored Contacts", and "Blue Colored Contacts", you'd have three very useful keyword phrases.


YouTube Search
Using the Youtube API, call in a search to place results AFTER the current on site results.

Why? Provides a quality set of secondary results.

Example Possibly using the other vBTube search script, updated for the new API.


Automated News Feed
Set up a daily CRON to pull in categories with more than X videos added to them.

Why? Keeps the news/announcement portion fresh without effort.


Add to Calendar
Allow the user to set an event ID the video is for and show it on the calendar.

Media RSS
Add media RSS output of the embedded player on the video page.

Why?
Allows for easy porting to Wordpress blogs and other RSS syndication.

Example?
Keep the videos "in house" using JWPlayer to pull the videos in and allow RSS embedding in the same player.