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GA Pro and Live Streaming

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Hi, I have just installed the GA Pro plugin to one of my players with the Asynchronous Tracking option.

I have put:

<script type="text/javascript">

  var _gaq = _gaq || [];
  _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-X']);
  _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

  (function() {
    var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
    ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
    var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
  })();

</script>

onto the page the player is on and added gapro-2 to the plugins.

I know there is a delay of up to 48 hours for the data to come through to Google Analytics, and I did only test the player with live content today, but I wanted to know I wasnt wasting my time; the GA plugin documentation says about playing a video to completion, so how does this work for live content?

I also can no longer test the video before the live event tomorrow, as the player is now live on multiple sites.

Any information would be greatly appreciated.

James

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Unfortunately, GAPro doesn't currently work with live streams. Sorry!

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Thanks for the reply.

Is support for live streaming something that will be released in a later version of GAPro? Alternatively, are there any other solutions for tracking live stream stats?

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We're hoping to release it in a later version, but the current player architecture presents some challenges.

What stats would you expect to see from a live stream? Starts + seconds played? I would think percentage played / completes don't really make sense as the stream can have any duration.

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Seconds played and number of times the video was played would work for me. Do you know when that functionality would be avialable? I've been using gapro-1 and have been getting statistics, but they don't make much sense to me at this point.

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Hi, Is it still the case that GAPro 2 does not work with live streaming?
Thanks

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