Eww

I really hate it when sites try to make you register just to get your E-Mail address and spam you. I also really hate poorly-written PHP scripts that don’t work. Combine these two and you have the newest trend in PHP CrapWare direct from middle-eastern “software” companies. I’d like to note that all of these scripts have issues and none of them are near production quality or the quality of finely-written software, such as WordPress or Movable Type.

So without further ado, I present to you Download URLs to forgo the registration process and not let these jerks get more E-Mail addresses for their crappy software. ClipBucket is the only one that doesn’t require registration to download, but unfortuantely ClipBucket is even crappier than the others; I couldn’t even get the main page to come up without crippling errors.

——osTube
Community Edition: http://ip2k.com/ostube/osTube_2.6_osTube_2.6_community_edt.tar.gz
Clean URLS doc: http://www.ostube.de/files/download/documentation/osTube_2.6_CleanUrls_en.pdf
Installation Instructions: http://www.ostube.de/files/download/documentation/osTube_2.6_Schnellanleitung_en.pdf

——Vidiscript

http://vidiscript.com/get

——PHPMotion
For PHP 4.x – http://downloads.phpmotion.com/V3.0/php4/phpmotion.zip
For PHP 5.x – http://downloads.phpmotion.com/V3.0/php5/phpmotion.zip

SETUP INSTRUCTIONS
For installation instructions visit http://wiki.phpmotion.com/InstallingV3

——ClipBucket

http://clip-bucket.com/

If you’re looking for a quick breakdown on why each sucks:

osTube: Mostly foreign-language, setup process is much more complicated than modern PHP scripts…C’mon guys, this isn’t the 90′s anymore and not everyone has SSH access to install your garbage.

VidiScript:
It’s “beta” software from a “quality” developer…need I say more?

PHPMotion: Would be fine except it’s encoded with PHPShield (as if anyone would want to steal their AMAZING source code). Loader progress bar is broken and updates percentages incorrectly. Path settings don’t have any affect on actual paths that it’ll try to use. Doesn’t like being installed in a subdir; in fact, it won’t even work in a subdir.

ClipBucket: Couldn’t even get main page to load, that’s how terrible it is.