Video Usage

[Guest]

IS there anyway to determine how many times a video has been access in AMS 5? I have looked at the apache log, but a streamed video appears many time for just one playing. Thanks for any help.

[jim_houseman]

You can use the server-side scripting API  to increment a counter each time a certain resource is accessed.

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/adobemediaserver/ssaslr/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d11a11aff5ba-7f8bSSASLR....

Or

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/adobemediaserver/adminapi/WSa4cb07693d12388431df580a12a34991ebc-8000.2.3...

Personally, I'd probably not try to handle this through AMS. I'd get and save the number of views to a given resource to a separate database.

[Guest]

Thanks for your response, but I'm really new at AMS. I can develope in ASP.Net. With that said, can you elaborate in a little more detail how to accomplish this. Perhaps the method name to use or a sample code snippet would be greatly.

Thanks

[jim_houseman]

Sure. It's just javascript.

If you only have one video in your application:

var accessCount=0;

application.onConnect = function (client){

     accessCount++;

}

Or if you want to track a specific video:

var accessCount;

application.onConnect = function (client,resource){

     accessCount[resource]++;

}

where "resource" is a string variable that you pass when the client application connects to the server.

And if you want to retrieve this number from your client:

Client.prototype.getMetrics = function(resource){

          return accessCount[resource];

}

Or you could even use the File class and write to an exteral file if you wanted.

[Guest]

Perhaps I'm missing something. My videos are mainly packaged as manifest files and embeded as html objects in our training applicationa, internet/intrannet, etc...

Are you saying the javascript should be added to the page that host the html object?

[jim_houseman]

I am not saying that the javascript should be added to the page that hosts the html object.

I am assuming that your AMS application works like mine, which may be a false assumption.

But my folders  on the server are laid out like this:

Adobe Media Server 5\Applications\[name of application]\[name of application].asc

The javascript is in the .asc file.

This is similar to this

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/adobemediaserver/devguide/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d11a0773d56e-7ffdDev.2...

When clients connect to your server, they hit the .asc file first. This is where you can accept, reject, or count connections.

[hparmar]

if you are looking for a solution to rtmp streams then Jim's answer is one of the ways...You can also inspect access log for AMS(not apache) to find put rmtp streams/clients playing a stream.

Howeever if you want to look for statistics for HDS/HLS streaming(which happens through Apache and its modules) then you will have to look at Apache logs(access logs for Apache)

[Guest]

Most of my videos are HDS. I looked at the Apache log, but need a little help in parsing the log for multi bit rate streaming. One playing of a video generates many, many entries into the log. For example:

124......... - - [31/Mar/2014:02:29:22 -0400] "GET /hds-vod/Vogtle_800.f4v.f4m HTTP/1.1" 200 2025

124......... - - [31/Mar/2014:02:29:22 -0400] "GET /hds-vod/Vogtle_1500.f4v.f4m HTTP/1.1" 200 2028

124......... - - [31/Mar/2014:02:29:45 -0400] "GET /hds-vod/Vogtle_300.f4vSeg1-Frag1 HTTP/1.1" 200 97018

124......... - - [31/Mar/2014:02:29:46 -0400] "GET /hds-vod/Vogtle_800.f4vSeg1-Frag2 HTTP/1.1" 200 161506

124......... - - [31/Mar/2014:02:29:49 -0400] "GET /hds-vod/Vogtle_800.f4vSeg1-Frag3 HTTP/1.1" 200 1040005

124......... - - [31/Mar/2014:02:29:55 -0400] "GET /hds-vod/Vogtle_800.f4vSeg1-Frag4 HTTP/1.1" 200 834187

124......... - - [31/Mar/2014:02:30:01 -0400] "GET /hds-vod/Vogtle_800.f4vSeg1-Frag5 HTTP/1.1" 200 366308

124......... - - [31/Mar/2014:02:30:03 -0400] "GET /hds-vod/Vogtle_800.f4vSeg1-Frag6 HTTP/1.1" 200 401652

124......... - - [31/Mar/2014:02:30:06 -0400] "GET /hds-vod/Vogtle_800.f4vSeg1-Frag7 HTTP/1.1" 200 221894

124......... - - [31/Mar/2014:02:30:12 -0400] "GET /hds-vod/Vogtle_800.f4vSeg1-Frag8 HTTP/1.1" 200 371067

124......... - - [31/Mar/2014:02:30:14 -0400] "GET /hds-vod/Vogtle_800.f4vSeg1-Frag9 HTTP/1.1" 200 506740

124......... - - [31/Mar/2014:02:30:18 -0400] "GET /hds-vod/Vogtle_800.f4vSeg1-Frag10 HTTP/1.1" 200 538230

124......... - - [31/Mar/2014:02:30:22 -0400] "GET /hds-vod/Vogtle_800.f4vSeg1-Frag11 HTTP/1.1" 200 449507

124......... - - [31/Mar/2014:02:30:28 -0400] "GET /hds-vod/Vogtle_800.f4vSeg1-Frag12 HTTP/1.1" 200 321969

124......... - - [31/Mar/2014:02:30:30 -0400] "GET /hds-vod/Vogtle_800.f4vSeg1-Frag13 HTTP/1.1" 200 429534

124......... - - [31/Mar/2014:02:30:36 -0400] "GET /hds-vod/Vogtle_800.f4vSeg1-Frag14 HTTP/1.1" 200 415903

124......... - - [31/Mar/2014:02:30:38 -0400] "GET /hds-vod/Vogtle_800.f4vSeg1-Frag15 HTTP/1.1" 200 533145

124......... - - [31/Mar/2014:02:30:44 -0400] "GET /hds-vod/Vogtle_800.f4vSeg1-Frag16 HTTP/1.1" 200 336615

124......... - - [31/Mar/2014:02:30:46 -0400] "GET /hds-vod/Vogtle_800.f4vSeg1-Frag17 HTTP/1.1" 200 519305

124......... - - [31/Mar/2014:02:30:50 -0400] "GET /hds-vod/Vogtle_800.f4vSeg1-Frag18 HTTP/1.1" 200 533103

124......... - - [31/Mar/2014:02:30:53 -0400] "GET /hds-vod/Vogtle_800.f4vSeg1-Frag19 HTTP/1.1" 200 658543

124......... - - [31/Mar/2014:02:30:59 -0400] "GET /hds-vod/Vogtle_800.f4vSeg1-Frag20 HTTP/1.1" 200 894845

124......... - - [31/Mar/2014:02:31:06 -0400] "GET /hds-vod/Vogtle_800.f4vSeg1-Frag21 HTTP/1.1" 200 883363

124......... - - [31/Mar/2014:02:31:11 -0400] "GET /hds-vod/Vogtle_300.f4vSeg1-Frag22 HTTP/1.1" 200 363477

124......... - - [31/Mar/2014:02:31:16 -0400] "GET /hds-vod/Vogtle_300.f4vSeg1-Frag23 HTTP/1.1" 200 175650

124......... - - [31/Mar/2014:02:31:17 -0400] "GET /hds-vod/Vogtle_300.f4vSeg1-Frag24 HTTP/1.1" 200 528201

124......... - - [31/Mar/2014:02:31:22 -0400] "GET /hds-vod/Vogtle_300.f4vSeg1-Frag25 HTTP/1.1" 200 454561

124......... - - [31/Mar/2014:02:31:25 -0400] "GET /hds-vod/Vogtle_300.f4vSeg1-Frag26 HTTP/1.1" 200 705040

124......... - - [31/Mar/2014:02:31:31 -0400] "GET /hds-vod/Vogtle_300.f4vSeg1-Frag27 HTTP/1.1" 200 367943

124......... - - [31/Mar/2014:02:31:34 -0400] "GET /hds-vod/Vogtle_300.f4vSeg1-Frag28 HTTP/1.1" 200 139240

124......... - - [31/Mar/2014:02:31:37 -0400] "GET /hds-vod/Vogtle_300.f4vSeg1-Frag29 HTTP/1.1" 200 773752

...

How can get only the distinct viewing of the video?

[hparmar]

The following line indicates a request for manifest file( .f4m in this case)...There is a single manifest file generated per stream..so this request should tell you the video files being requested.

124......... - - [31/Mar/2014:02:29:22 -0400] "GET /hds-vod/Vogtle_800.f4v.f4m HTTP/1.1" 200 2025

BTW on side note, the industry practice is to put a vranish in front of Apache web server and log/account all requests on varnish itself.