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Author SHA1 Message Date
Chocobozzz 5cb3e6a0b8
Use sessionId instead of IP to identify viewer
Breaking: YAML config `ip_view_expiration` is renamed `view_expiration`
Breaking: Views are taken into account after 10 seconds instead of 30
seconds (can be changed in YAML config)

Purpose of this commit is to get closer to other video platforms where
some platforms count views on play (mux, vimeo) or others use a very low
delay (instagram, tiktok)

We also want to improve the viewer identification, where we no longer
use the IP but the `sessionId` generated by the web browser. Multiple
viewers behind a NAT can now be able to be identified as independent
viewers (this method is also used by vimeo or mux)
2024-04-04 16:27:40 +02:00
Chocobozzz b4f4432459
Viewers federation protocol v2
More efficient than the current one where instance is not fast enough to
send all viewers if a video becomes popular

The new protocol can be enabled by setting env
USE_VIEWERS_FEDERATION_V2='true'

Introduce a result field in View activity that contains the number of
viewers. This field is used by the origin instance to send the total
viewers on the video to remote instances. The difference with the
current protocol is that we don't have to send viewers individually to
remote instances.

There are 4 cases:
 * View activity from federation on Remote Video -> instance replaces
   all current viewers by a new viewer that contains the result counter
 * View activity from federation on Local Video -> instance adds the
   viewer without considering the result counter
 * Local view on Remote Video -> instance adds the viewer and send it to
   the origin instance
 * Local view on Local Video -> instance adds the viewer

Periodically PeerTube cleanups expired viewers. On local videos, the
instance sends to remote instances a View activity with the result
counter so they can update their viewers counter for that particular
video
2023-12-20 10:55:47 +01:00
Chocobozzz 40a6dcb632
Optimize video views redis calls
Try to avoid them if we can
2023-10-26 14:08:19 +02:00
Chocobozzz 5a3d0650c9
server/server -> server/core 2023-10-04 15:13:25 +02:00