Thank you for saving me time and effort. I ended up following advice of downloading youtube movies to home computer and serving from it.
My choice was EMBY server for windows https://emby.media/windows-server.html although a couple others were good options as well. I bought Emby app for iPad and I use a download extension for Chrome to get 720p resolution videos. The content is static, but my drive is big and I feel that this way I can approve some of the content. It certainly costs my time go get content to Emby server. I could try installing Emby on Raspberry PI 3, but I decided against it. It was more work, the download workflow had a more complicated step of moving video from PC to RPI. I was not sure if RPI could be responsive with its decoding. The setup works. On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 7:15 AM, Eliezer Croitoru <elie...@ngtech.co.il> wrote: > Hey Amos, Sergei, > > I managed to write an ICAP service which works with a ruby\golang StorID > helper and a redis DB that can help with the caching of YouTube videos. > However despite to the fact that I am able to tag urls with StoreID squid > is still not responding with a cache HIT but fetching from the original > sources. > > There are couple obstacles in this field and this specific solution I > wrote is designed for PC and not IPAD or Andorid Based devices. > There is an issue with Android 6+(7..) and IOS 10 based devices which for > some reason do not cope with SSL traffic interception. > If you do have a tiny server and you can run a tiny http service with > nginx\apache I would recommend you to download the videos and serve them > locally using chrome or another browser which works. > I found it more useful then intercepting and caching also, kids are > usually enjoying from a more "stable" stash of movies\videos then others. > They can watch the same video over and over and it would be fun for them. > The teenagers are having issue's watching the same video over and over so.. > I can recommend on a nice wordpress theme which can fit a "VOD" site and a > video downloader which you can use to download specific videos or playlists. > > This solution would be something like "netflix on a stick" and is very > effective with a raspberry pi 3 with some external USB HDD. > > I would be happy to get any response to any of the ideas. > > Thanks In Advance, > Eliezer > > * If you are willing to devote some time to debug the issue with the > current helpers let me know and bump me if you think I missed an email and > didn't responded(it happens when you have kids...) > ---- > Eliezer Croitoru > Linux System Administrator > Mobile: +972-5-28704261 > Email: elie...@ngtech.co.il > > > -----Original Message----- > From: squid-users [mailto:squid-users-boun...@lists.squid-cache.org] On > Behalf Of Amos Jeffries > Sent: Friday, July 7, 2017 11:32 > To: squid-users@lists.squid-cache.org > Subject: Re: [squid-users] youtube videos and squid > > On 07/07/17 15:40, Sergei G wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > I have a very specific scenario in mind to use squid for. > > > > I have 2 kids (2.5 and 4 years old) that are watching iPads and really > > using available Comcast bandwidth. It does not help that they sometimes > > just leave those iPads running. > > > > They tend to re-watch youtube videos (click on the same icon that they > > liked before). And that makes me think that squid could help me with > > caching off youtube content. Am I correct? > > Possibly. Google have actively been making it more difficult every year > for quite a while. > > These days it requires intercepting the YouTube HTTPS connections. That > is only possible if the clients are not using Chrome or other Google > apps to fetch the videos - otherwise you run up against the cert pinning > wall. > > After that you need some extra helper software to track the YT video > fetching process and decipher what the actual video URL is from the mess > of session traffic. That is being kept a bit of a secret these days, > since every time G find out how it is being done they change the process > to make it more obtuse and harder to do :-( > > Eliezer has been trying to get a helper for that going most recently. > There are also some other products I forget the name of right now > (videobooster maybe), but should be easy to find that cache YouTube > content. > > > > > > If not then I have no reason to bother you anymore :) > > > > If squid could help me, then could you point me to a an example > > configuration that would work? > > > > As far as hardware I have 2 options: > > > > 1. I can install squid on a Raspberry PI 3, if package is readily > > available. that's my preferred solution. > > 2. I have an old server hardware with more power than RPI 3, but I don't > > like to run it, because it is noisy. It has FreeBSD 10 installed and I > > can upgrade it to latest FreeBSD (11?) and isntall squid application > > that way. > > > > > > Does squid run on RPI3? FreeBSD? > > Yes to both, and at the small scale you need the RPi3 should be able to > cope with it. > > Amos > _______________________________________________ > squid-users mailing list > squid-users@lists.squid-cache.org > http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users > > _______________________________________________ > squid-users mailing list > squid-users@lists.squid-cache.org > http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users >
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