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20 December, 2008 - 17:17
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Hello!

The videocache.py code for Google videos is not working:

if host.find('vp.video.google.com') > -1 and path.find('videodownload') > -1:

I tried to cache Google videos and doesn’t work. For example:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8996836251682690877&ei=RIdLSa2K...

Google uses also localisation. This means that the same video can be found at different video.google.tld: video.google.com, video.google.es, video.google.cat, video.google.fr, video.google.pl, … The same path is used after video.google.tld/

In my case, users go to google.com, google.es and google.cat. They navigate using English, Spanish or Catalan.

Regards,

Josep Pujadas

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20 December, 2008 - 18:41
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Hello Josep,

I never noticed that as I always navigated using video.google.com while working on videocache. As you have pointed out other tlds, I'll add support for it in the next version.

Thanks for the wonderful feedback :)

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20 December, 2008 - 20:34
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Hello Kulbir,

Could you explain how you navigate using video.google.com?

I go to www.google.com.
I search "video".
I click to video.google.com.
I search "motor" for "videos playable on Google".
I choose the first video at video.google.com I see.
I play it:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8996836251682690877&ei=WghNSemM...

and it is not cached (?).

Regards,

Josep Pujadas

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20 December, 2008 - 22:59
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Hello Josep,

I follow exactly the same procedure and it caches. I am surprised to see that its not caching for you. Any hints from /var/log/videocache/videocache.log? Can you paste your logfile on http://pastebin.com .

Thank you for using videocache :)

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21 December, 2008 - 02:48
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Hello Kulbir,

Posted at http://pastebin.com/m55eed9f2

Note: Good tool pastebin.com!

Regards,

Josep Pujadas

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21 December, 2008 - 10:45
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Josep,

Your videocache doesn't seem to act for video.google.com which is strange. Did you change anything in the code or configuration?

Thank You.

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21 December, 2008 - 22:29
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Hello Kulbir,

No, I didn't (for the code and for the configuration).

I tried with videocache only (without squidGuard) and obtained the same result.

I’m not a Python programmer but I think that:

* videocache.py code looks for video.google.com host.
* My log looks for eyehpr.vp.video.l.google.com host.

and

* videocache.py code looks for videodownload.
* My log looks for videoplayback.

Google is very big. Perhaps they have different access for my geographical zone.

Regards,

Josep Pujadas

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22 December, 2008 - 08:33
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Hi Josep,

Nice finding. I have added this to my todo list. Will push it upstream soon.

Thank You.

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22 December, 2008 - 04:51
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Hello!

I tried other videos and I got the following hostnames:

eyehgg.vp.video.l.google.com
ehkcmu.vp.video.l.google.com

Please see http://www.robtex.com/dns/vp.video.l.google.com.html

and

http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/forum/Setup-Problems/14616/Google-V...

where it says:

"But since a few days Google changed the urls retrieved from ..."

Regards,

Josep Pujadas

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22 December, 2008 - 08:35
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Hi!

Thank you for providing the useful information. It'll help me fix the issue.

Thanks for using videocache :)

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