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Tony Gentile
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Datazoom is a high-availability real-time data collection solution. This document summarizes how to integrate the dash.js video player with the Datazoom platform.

Login to Datazoom here:  https://app.datazoom.io

Add a Collector as indicated here:  How to add a Collector

Copy the CONFIG ID to be used in the subsequent steps

Plugin Integration

Datazoom provides plugins for data collection through our Beacon Services. Integrate the Dash.js plugin into your web application with the following snippet:

<script src='https://platform.datazoom.io/beacon/v1/config?configuration_id=CONFIG_ID'></script>

  • Insert this JS line into your HTML

  • Replace the CONFIG_ID value with the collector configuration ID.

This inserts Datazoom's data collection SDK into the page.

Activate Data Collection for a Dash.js

To activate data collection for a Dash.js instance, create a Datazoom context which references the player instance with the following snippet:

datazoom_context = datazoom.createContext(dashjs_player);

For example:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <!-- THE DASHJS CDN -->
    <script src="https://reference.dashif.org/dash.js/latest/dist/dash.all.min.js"></script>
    <!-- THE DATAZOOM BEACON SCRIPT -->
    <script src='https://platform.datazoom.io/beacon/v1/config?configuration_id=CONFIG_ID'></script>
</head>

<body>

    <div>
         <video id="video" controls style="width:50%;height:50%"></video>
    </div>

    <script>
    
        var dashjs_player;
        var datazoom_context;

        var url = "https://dash.akamaized.net/akamai/bbb_30fps/bbb_30fps.mpd";
          
        // Create a MediaPlayer and initialize it.
        dashjs_player = dashjs.MediaPlayer().create();
        dashjs_player.initialize(document.getElementById("video"), url);

        // Activates data collection
        datazoom_context = datazoom.createContext(dashjs_player);
        
    </script>

</body>

</html>

Stop Data Collection

If the data collection must be stopped for any reason, for example after the destruction of the corresponding player instance, invoke the destroy() method of the Datazoom context object as in the following example:

if (dashjs_player) {
    dashjs_player.destroy();
    dashjs_player = null;
}

if (datazoom_context) {
    datazoom_context.destroy();
    datazoom_context = null;
}

References:

Dash.js API Doc : Getting started with the Web SDK | Dash.js Documentation

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