Vidoosh TV is an Iranian Video Sharing, based in Brussels, Belgium, Founded in November 2007, Vidoosh TV is the first Iranian video sharing website which is specialized in Iranian & Central Asian Cultures.

In November 2007, Aria Rouhani (Azarmanesh) (آریا روحانی) decided to create an Iranian portal to collect & present another image of Iranian culture & people.

In October 2009 Vidoosh TV is purchased by Leadchannel TV the London based TV and video Production Company for an undisclosed amount.

Vidoosh TV supports multiple file types such as video and audio. It provides users a means of repurposing their media, including sharing, editing, organizing and categorizing..

Features

The following is a list of some features that are offered for members.

• Uploading, managing, and deletion of videos and audio files
• Embedding of videos
• Creation and management of groups and member profiles
• Internal email messaging
• Creating video play list and add a video response
• Audio uploads and sharing
• Photo uploading and sharing
• Create a blog within the site

History

Vidoosh TV was developed in 2007 as a video sharing website which is specialized in Iranian & Central Asian Cultures & its aime is to show true face of Iran & Central Asia.
In November 2007, Aria Rouhani (Azarmanesh) decided to create an Iranian portal to collect & present another image of Iranian culture & people. This project transformed as a Video Sharing Website in early 2008.

Vidoosh was sold in October 2009 to Lead Channel TV a London web video and TV production company for an undisclosed amount, the company intend to grow the site by generating new users from other cultures,and introducing photo audio and blog sharing.

Current status

Currently Vidoosh TV has over 4000 special videos about Iran, Iranian & Asian cultures plus countless videos covering entertainment, music, car, real estate, with new sections added daily.

Technical notes

Vidoosh TV's video playback technology is based on Macromedia

Macromedia

Macromedia was an American graphics and web development software company headquartered in San Francisco, California that produced such products as Flash and Dreamweaver. Its rival, Adobe Systems, acquired Macromedia on December 3, 2005 and controls the line of Macromedia...

's Flash Player

Adobe Flash Player

The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other...

. This technology allows the site to display videos with quality comparable to more established video playback technologies (such as Windows Media Player

Windows Media Player

Windows Media Player is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices...

, QuickTime

QuickTime

QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and...

 and RealPlayer

RealPlayer

RealPlayer is a cross-platform media player by RealNetworks that plays a number of multimedia formats including MP3, MPEG-4, QuickTime, Windows Media, and multiple versions of proprietary RealAudio and RealVideo formats.-History:...

) that generally require the user to download and install a web browser

Web browser

A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content...

 plugin in order to view video. Flash also requires a plug-in, but the Flash 7 plug-in is generally considered to be present on approximately 90% of online computers. The video can also be played back with gnash

Gnash

Gnash is a media player for playing SWF files. Gnash is available both as a standalone player for desktop computers and embedded device, as well as a plugin for several browsers. It is part of the GNU Project and is a Free and open-source alternative to Adobe Flash Player...

 or VLC

VLC media player

VLC media player is a free and open source media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project.VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to...

. It has pixel dimensions of 320 by 240 (4:3) or 352 by 264 (16:9), depending on the aspect ratio of the source video. Videos run at 25 frames per second with a maximum data rate of 300kbit/s.

Vidoosh TV accepts uploaded videos in a variety of formats, including .WMV

Windows Media Video

'Windows Media Video is a video compression format for several proprietary codecs developed by Microsoft. The original video format, known as WMV, was originally designed for Internet streaming applications, as a competitor to RealVideo. The other formats, such as WMV Screen and WMV Image, cater...

, .AVI

Audio Video Interleave

Audio Video Interleave , known by its acronym AVI, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows technology. AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback...

, .MOV

QuickTime

QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and...

, MPEG

Moving Picture Experts Group

The Moving Picture Experts Group is a working group of experts that was formed by ISO and IEC to set standards for audio and video compression and transmission. It was established in 1988 by the initiative of Hiroshi Yasuda and Leonardo Chiariglione, who has been from the beginning the Chairman...

 and .MP4

MPEG-4 Part 14

MPEG-4 Part 14 or MP4 is a multimedia container format standard specified as a part of MPEG-4. It is most commonly used to store digital video and digital audio streams, especially those defined by MPEG, but can also be used to store other data such as subtitles and still images...

.

Video can be seen in windowed mode or full screen mode; it is possible to switch the mode during the viewing of any video without reloading it because of the full-screen function of Adobe Systems

Adobe Systems

Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States...

 Flash Player 9.