Videoache will download the same youtube movie twice

Imriz,

Can you please cite an example. I didn't really get this.

Thank You!

Imriz,

Ok. Then we should be caching the videos only from youtube and deny the videos from googlevideo servers. Can you try once that in your setup? Just deny them in squid.conf and they'll never reach videocache for download.

But here I am confused about the choice. We should deny youtube ones or the googlevideo ones. Whats your insight on this?

Thank You!

Kulbir, Imriz, ...

I wrote a page about ... after a lot of testing ...

http://www.bellera.cat/josep/videocache/squid_videocache_youtube.html

Regards,

Josep Pujadas

Great stuff.

After a lot of testing i menaged to force youtube caching to work well.

This is my config:
# --BEGIN-- videocache config for squid
#url_rewrite_program /usr/bin/python /usr/local/videocache/videocache.py
url_rewrite_program /usr/local/squid/bin/zapchain "/usr/local/squid/bin/gg_rewrite" "/usr/bin/python /usr/local/videocache/videocache.py"
url_rewrite_children 5

acl videocache_allow_url url_regex -i www\.youtube\.com\/get_video\?
#acl videocache_allow_url url_regex -i \.googlevideo\.com\/videoplayback \.googlevideo\.com\/get_video\?
#acl videocache_allow_url url_regex -i \.google\.com\/videoplayback \.google\.com\/get_video\?
#acl videocache_allow_url url_regex -i \.google\.[a-z][a-z]\/videoplayback \.google\.[a-z][a-z]\/get_video\?
#acl videocache_allow_url url_regex -i (25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\
#acl videocache_allow_url url_regex -i (25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\
#acl videocache_allow_url url_regex -i proxy[a-z0-9\-][a-z0-9][a-z0-9][a-z0-9]?\.dailymotion\.com\/
#acl videocache_allow_url url_regex -i vid\.akm\.dailymotion\.com\/
#acl videocache_allow_url url_regex -i [a-z0-9][0-9a-z][0-9a-z]?[0-9a-z]?[0-9a-z]?\.xtube\.com\/(.*)flv
#acl videocache_allow_url url_regex -i bitcast\.vimeo\.com\/vimeo\/videos\/
acl videocache_allow_url url_regex -i va\.wrzuta\.pl\/wa[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]?
#acl videocache_allow_url url_regex -i \.files\.youporn\.com\/(.*)\/flv\/
#acl videocache_allow_url url_regex -i \.msn\.com\.edgesuite\.net\/(.*)\.flv
#acl videocache_allow_url url_regex -i media[a-z0-9]?[a-z0-9]?[a-z0-9]?\.tube8\.com\/ mobile[a-z0-9]?[a-z0-9]?[a-z0-9]?\.tube8\.com\/
#acl videocache_allow_url url_regex -i \.mais\.uol\.com\.br\/(.*)\.flv
#acl videocache_allow_url url_regex -i \.video[a-z0-9]?[a-z0-9]?\.blip\.tv\/(.*)\.(flv|avi|mov|mp3|m4v|mp4|wmv|rm|ram)
#acl videocache_allow_url url_regex -i video\.break\.com\/(.*)\.(flv|mp4)

#acl videocache_allow_dom dstdomain v.mccont.com dl.redtube.com .cdn.dailymotion.com
acl videocache_allow_dom dstdomain dl.redtube.com

#acl videocache_deny_url url_regex -i http:\/\/[a-z][a-z]\.youtube\.com http:\/\/www\.youtube\.com
acl videocache_deny_url url_regex -i http:\/\/[a-z][a-z]\.youtube\.com

url_rewrite_access deny videocache_deny_url
url_rewrite_access allow videocache_allow_url
url_rewrite_access allow videocache_allow_dom
url_rewrite_access allow GG_banner

redirector_bypass on
# --END-- videocache config for squid

As You see i commented all googlevideo acls, and not used ones.
I changed youtube acl to match www.youtube.com

After that Youtube url's are requested only once but i had to change hit_threshold to 3 because some youtube url's reply with "we're sorry this video is no longer available" and users usually click refresh to fix this what causes another request and unnecessary caching. It happened before so it's not videocache issue.

Big thanks for this stuff. I searched for something like this for a very long time.

Gandi,

Thanks for the compliments and sharing your experience with videocache.

Keep caching :D