List Number of Views and Downloads on Video_View Template

[anna]

Contributors to Plumi sites would like to be able to see how many views and downloads have occurred for each of their videos. Seeing the number of people who have seen their video greatly encourages people to contribute. Not being able to see this means that video makers are unable to assess the effectiveness of distribution via the Plumi site.

A method for collecting data on the number of times the video has been played in the Flowplayer in addition to the number of times the download video link has been clicked should be established. Then this data should be stored and called in the video_view template.

The way this information is available to the viewer on YouTube? can be seen in the attached screenshot.

[anna]

The number of times the video has been Favourited and the videos Rating could also be listed here, as is the case on YouTube?.

[anna]

Two requests from two different users of the Plumi site EngageMedia.org for stats on video views / downloads:

"The site is growing amazingly as far as content and membership - how about visits? I mentioned once to Andrew that stats would be good."

"btw, is one feature that i like on youtube that engage does not have, which is the counter. i like it cos i dont get web stats from my home page, and is just nice to know how many people are finding videos. is there a facility for this on engage that i've missed?"

These requests are from EngageMedia.org's two top video contributors which shows the importance of this issue to users of Plumi software on the EngageMedia site.

[andycat]

Plumi - added mxmCounter  http://dev.plone.org/collective/changeset/58584

ATVideo - edit template to show simple hit counter- this is for just the '/view' page  http://dev.plone.org/collective/changeset/58585

Still need to do "/download" page, and a counter for flowplayer views.

[andycat]

Have a look here -  http://testing.engagemedia.org/Members/anna/videos/forte-andy-and.3gp/view start testing please.

[datakid]

is it counting "flv -views", hits on the page or downloads? or a combination/permutation?

[anonymous]

this appears to be counting my page views.

 http://testing.engagemedia.org/Members/anna/videos/em-id.ogg/view

views = 1 upon first visit views = 2 upon page reload

works for me.

• is it possible to remove the box around it, and have it simply say "1" rather than "000001"?

• also should we say "Views in 2008" or something (though that wouldn't be correct) as the figures will be so much less than if they had been calculated from 2006 onwards? or can we insert this data on previous page views from our webstats (EM.org)?

the solution does seem to answer the ticket request perfectly well :)

those comments are just about enhancements we may desire, i suppose..

[datakid]

Replying to anonymous:

* also should we say "Views in 2008" or something (though that wouldn't be correct) as the figures will be so much less than if they had been calculated from 2006 onwards? or can we insert this data on previous page views from our webstats (EM.org)?

I think that this would be a mistake. Obviously it doesn't look great, but I think we just need to put a caveat on the announcement. The webstats idea is a good one, the idea about changing it to views in YYYY I think is not.

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[and]

Have closed ticket http://plumi.org/ticket/215 which is a duplicate. Comment from Vik there was.......

Add a counter for each video object showing how many times it has been viewed. Possible problems include the fact the flash video file is hosted by apache rather than zope, so direct integration with zope may be difficult. Similarly, engagemedia.org uses a cache to speed up access, so actual hits would need to be counted from the logfile of the apache server that sits in front of the cache.

Per-page views should be easy with the mxmCounter or FSCounter products, but this may not produce the desired statistics. However, these might be used as a basis for modification to query the apache logs or awstats directly.

Another alternative is to use google analytics in conjunction with the analyiticsforplone product.

[grant]

No scope for this in 3.1 - moved to 3.2