Frequently Asked Questions about VideoCache - General

Videocache is a Squid URL rewriter plugin written in Python for bandwidth optimization while browsing famous video sharing portals/websites like Youtube, Metacafe etc. It helps you save bandwidth when a particular video is requested more than once from the same network/machine.

Squid can not cache the videos served dynamically. Videocache fits into squid to help it cache the videos as well. The cached videos are stored on your server's local hard disk and you can browse them as if you downloaded them. You can copy them to other machines as well.

For more details on videocache, check the home page.

When a video is requested from a video website/portal, videocache stores the requested video in the local storage on proxy server. All the subsequent requests for that particular video will be served from the local storage. This helps in saving bandwidth and reduces the loading time of a video to a very large extent.

Videocache is available for download for various platforms and operating systems. Check the download page for downloading the latest version of videocache.

Videocache blog sends out the details about videocache development and discussions. Please subscribe to videocache blog feed for latest updates on videocache.

Make sure that the website you want to request is not already supported or its not in the Todo List. If you did not find it on those lists, please requests in the suggestions forum.

Prepare details statistics about your usage and bandwidth savings and create a new topic in statistics forum.

Normally the cached videos are stored in /var/spool/videocache/ .If the cached videos are not there or this directory doesn't exits, check the value of base_dir option in /etc/videocache.conf and look for videos there.

The supported list is growing continuously. Check the list of supported websites.

No. Audio files are also cached for some websites like wrzuta.pl.