Dear Sir Amos and the list,
Thank you so much again for your useful comments; that is definitely
helpful for me. I was fiddling with how to cache videos from YouTube for
a while but could not succeed; then I googled and came across the
videocache software and would like to ask the list first before i tried
it out.
Now, my next step is to try both the videocache and the sotreurl
feature. I will update the list again.
Thanks & regards,
Khem
On 04/26/2010 07:06 PM, Amos Jeffries wrote:
Khemara Lyn wrote:
Thank you, Amos, for your comments and sorry for my late response.
I don't use any auth methods. In fact, I am using WCCP2 with a Cisco
router.
(I didn't write that, Luis did. But okay).
I don't know if the patch you mentioned is compatible with the
version 2.7 STABLE7.1 that i'm using now.
That ".1" at the end of your version indicates a distro-packaged
version. And it probably has not been updated to use the patch.
To use the patch you will likely need to build your own Squid from
sources which have had it applied. It should be compatible with all
the 2.HEAD and 2.7 series code.
BTW, I am considering using cachevideos (http://cachevideos.com/) to
help cache the videos. Could someone with experience with the
software comment about it and suggest an alternative software?
Videocache uses a two-layered approach to download the videos then
server them from the local machine. It's a bit winding and causes
delays on the initial fetch. That said, it's the best available for
Squid without the storeurl feature.
squid-2.7 storeurl as configured on the YT wiki page does the same
thing as videocache without the extra software plugin and startup lag.
And yes, videocache can still be used with squid-2.7 if you really
want to.
Amos
