Tracking Play Stop events

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Nov. 14, 2009germano

Hi,

I've installed Allvideo reloaded plug in and it works properly. What i need to do is to track video activity with a WebAnalytics application ( Webtrends Analytics). To do this i have to place a call to a js function in the same position of the player calls. In other words i have to pace the following call 'multitrack.Send' inside the play function of the player and a similar one inside the player sto event.

dcsMultiTrack multitrack=new dcsMultiTrack();

multitrack.Send("DCS.dcssip","www.trespot.it/webanalytics","DCS.dcsuri","/video_events/"+stop,"WT.clip_n",mediaName,"WT.clip_ev","Play");


These call are used to send information about start and stop events to the Webanalytics application; in this way i can track the video utilize. Where i can find the proper location where i can put the call? Where is the player code inside Joomla? Is it possible to edit it? At the moment the local video i have are flv.

I found the file .../content/avreloaded/swfobject.js and it seems that without this file the player doesn't work. so i guess that this is the file that i have to edit but i don't find any function like 'play' or 'stop' that instead i found in the file avreloaded-uncompressed.js in the same folder.

Thanks,

Germano

Nov. 15, 2009germano

Thanks,

I solved updating the player at the last version (downloaded by this web site) so the function playerReady is correctly called. After this i have added the following code directly in the template HTML (in joomla):


<!-- START OF Video Tracking -->
<!-- Created: 11/15/2009 By GM -->
<!-- START OF Player Track routine -->
<!-- @author maranog -->
<script type="text/javascript">
var player = null;
var playlist = null;
var currentState = null;


function playerReady(obj)
{
alert('the videoplayer ' +obj['id']+ ' è stato inizializzato');
player = gid(obj.id);
addListeners();
};


function addListeners()
{
playlist = player.getPlaylist();

if((playlist !== null) && (playlist.length > 0))
{
player.addModelListener('STATE', 'stateMonitor');
}
else
{
setTimeout("addListeners();", 100);
}
};


function stateMonitor(obj)
{
currentState = obj.newstate;
previousState = obj.oldstate;
var multitrack=new dcsMultiTrack();

//...do something here based upon the state of the player

if (currentState == "PLAYING") {
multitrack.Send("WT.clip_n", "Tecnologo per caso", "WT.clip_ev", "Play", "WT.dl", "7");
alert('Webtrends: ' + currentState);
}

if (currentState == "BUFFERING") {
multitrack.Send("WT.clip_n", "Tecnologo per caso", "WT.clip_ev", "Buffering", "WT.dl", "7");
alert('Webtrends: ' + currentState);
}


if (currentState == "COMPLETED"){
multitrack.Send("WT.clip_n", "Tecnologo per caso", "WT.clip_ev", "Completed", "WT.dl", "7");
alert('Webtrends: ' + currentState );
}

if (currentState == "IDLE") {
multitrack.Send("WT.clip_n", "Tecnologo per caso", "WT.clip_ev", "Idle", "WT.dl", "7");
alert('Webtrends: ' + currentState );
}

if (currentState == "PAUSED") {
multitrack.Send("WT.clip_n", "Tecnologo per caso", "WT.clip_ev", "Paused", "WT.dl", "7");
alert('Webtrends: ' + currentState );
}

//...only for testing
alert('State: ' + obj.newstate);
};


function gid(name)
{
return document.getElementById(name);
};
</script>

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