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• Matomo’s new story : our stronger vision for the future

  31 octobre 2018, par Matthieu Aubry — Community

  

  Over the past year, the team here at Matomo have been working on a very exciting project we’d love to share with you.

  It’s to do with the impact we hope for Matomo to have.

  As you all know, the world changes at too fast a pace. New technologies, new phones, new everything in the blink of an eye. That’s not what will be happening here.

  Instead, we’d like to believe it’s a refresh. Taking stock of how far we’ve come, what we’ve achieved so far, and how far we still have to go.

  So we’re rebranding.

  The rebrand

  Like a caterpillar emerging from a cocoon, we hope to be a reborn analytics butterfly.

  As a result of some careful planning and reflection we’ll be updating our logo, website and reasserting our voice.

  It’s our chance to look at ourselves in a new light. We are a mighty analytics platform and it should be known we’re comparable to the likes of Google Analytics 360.

  Along with the refresh of imagery, we listened to your feedback about the confusion between our two identities, so we’re also taking this opportunity to unite both the business brand of Innocraft with the community brand Matomo into one website.

  It makes it easier for people from all walks of life, either as individuals or in large companies, to see us as being able to get down to business with a powerful analytics tool, as well as think on behalf of our community.

  We’re the same, but with slight changes in our appearance and a stronger vision for the future.

  How far we’ve come …

  When we started out, it was about building a community around a movement. From the beginning we were concerned about data ownership, privacy and all things that came with that.

  With the help of our community and contributors, we turned Matomo (formerly Piwik) into the trusted #1 open source analytics tool it is today. We’re committed to our community. But we also need to do more.

  We’ve been niche and happy staying small, but now we need to take action and start shouting far and wide about what we do.

  We once said we need : “To create, as a community, the leading international open source digital analytics platform, that gives every user full control of their data.”

  We believe we’ve done that, so we’ll take it one step further.

  A web analytics revolution has begun …

  Begun ?

  The line signifies a new beginning.

  This is us standing up and reasserting our voice.

  Our new chapter.

  The rebrand is our chance to show that, yes, the world is changing, but when it comes to privacy, there are matters meant to be sacred. Privacy is a human right.

  What makes it worse in this ever-changing landscape, with data breaches and stolen information, is that losing control of our data is scary, we have a right to know what’s going on with our information and this must start with us.

  We know we need to champion this cause for privacy and data ownership.

  We came together as a community and built something powerful, a free open-source analytics platform, that kept the integrity of the people using it.

  It’s important for us now to feel more empowered to believe in our right to privacy, information and our ability to act independently of large corporations.

  The time is here for us to speak up and take back control.

  Once more, we need to come together to build something even more powerful, a safer online society.

  Join us.

  Sincerely,
  Matthieu Aubry on behalf of the Matomo team

• How can I broadcast a Twilio (group room) video conference ?

  2 novembre 2022, par Danish

  I have been trying different solutions/approaches for last few days and posting here to get some more options.

  



  I am planning to use Twilio's Programmable Video solution with Group room (upto 50 participants) to allow hosts/presenters to join video conference meeting. Right now I am able to setup and get started with quickstart example here

  



  Also, in parallel, I need to be able to broadcast that live meeting room through RTMP/HLS (audio+video) streaming that can be viewed (through another portal) by large user set (ideally around 10k+)

  



  Twilio support team suggested - integrating Twilio Video with Wowza using screenscrapping and ffmpeg (i.e. render the video into a (maybe virtual) screen, capture it and send to Wowza using ffmpeg.)

  



  I am new to both ffmpeg and wowza. However, I am looking to see high level solution which can be used to achieve this (with minimum hanging parts).

  



  Ideal flow i can think of is

  



  

  • Start a Twilio video conference room with actual presenters

  


  • all participants share there video and audio tracks with each other in the room - standard behavior

  


  • a new ghost-participant joins-in from stand-alone server (from wowza or SIP) and subscribes to audio-video tracks in conference.

  


  • arrange & combine those tracks into one channel and stream it as HLS

  


  • this ghost-participant will also be able to identify dominant speaker and re-arrange video tracks to show current speaker occupying bigger space (just like zoom)

  


  • and of course, this streamed video (with audio) will be one-way and viewers cannot interact. Just see be able to see the room broadcasting.

  


  



  Also/FYI
I have tried exploring few more options below (with no success)

  



  


  1. a blog here explain how can we broadcast a twilio audio
conference. At the bottom it also mention about video streaming. but, I am not getting how can we use SIP to get video stream that can be broadcasted. Also, how can I manipulate video tracks to show dominant speakers in full screen view Vs other participant in thumbnail view i.e. custom layouts.

  


  2. I also explored option of Wowza WebRTC streaming to achieve this, but it has got other technical challenges with setting up video room with multiple participants. I am going to reach out to them to see if this use-case is possible with their offering.

  


  3. I am looking for something as simple as here - dial as guest participant into video room from standalone streaming server/wowza server. And get output as single stream to broadcast.

  


  



  Any other pointers or links to solutions would be helpful.

  


• Server Move For multimedia.cx

  1er août 2014, par Multimedia Mike — General

  I made a big change to multimedia.cx last week : I moved hosting from a shared web hosting plan that I had been using for 10 years to a dedicated virtual private server (VPS). In short, I now have no one to blame but myself for any server problems I experience from here on out.

  The tipping point occurred a few months ago when my game music search engine kept breaking regardless of what technology I was using. First, I had an admittedly odd C-based CGI solution which broke due to mysterious binary compatibility issues, the sort that are bound to occur when trying to make a Linux binary run on heterogeneous distributions. The second solution was an SQLite-based solution. Like the first solution, this worked great until it didn’t work anymore. Something else mysteriously broke vis-à-vis PHP and SQLite on my server. I started investigating a MySQL-based full text search solution but couldn’t make it work, and decided that I shouldn’t have to either.

  Ironically, just before I finished this entire move operation, I noticed that my SQLite-based FTS solution was working again on the old shared host. I’m not sure when that problem went away. No matter, I had already thrown the switch.

  How Hard Could It Be ?
  We all have thresholds for the type of chores we’re willing to put up with and which we’d rather pay someone else to perform. For the past 10 years, I felt that administering a website’s underlying software is something that I would rather pay someone else to worry about. To be fair, 10 years ago, I don’t think VPSs were a thing, or at least a viable thing in the consumer space, and I wouldn’t have been competent enough to properly administer one. Though I would have been a full-time Linux user for 5 years at that point, I was still the type to build all of my own packages from source (I may have still been running Linux From Scratch 10 years ago) which might not be the most tractable solution for server stability.

  These days, VPSs are a much more affordable option (easily competitive with shared web hosting). I also realized I know exactly how to install and configure all the software that runs the main components of the various multimedia.cx sites, having done it on local setups just to ensure that my automated backups would actually be useful in the event of catastrophe.

  All I needed was the will to do it.

  The Switchover Process
  Here’s the rough plan :

  • Investigate options for both VPS providers and mail hosts– I might be willing to run a web server but NOT a mail server
  • Start plotting several months in advance of my yearly shared hosting renewal date
  • Screw around for several months, playing video games and generally finding reasons to put off the move
  • Panic when realizing there are only a few days left before the yearly renewal comes due

  So that’s the planning phase. BTW, I chose Digital Ocean for VPS and Zoho for email hosting. Here’s the execution phase I did last week :

  • Register with Digital Ocean and set up DNS entries to point to the old shared host for the time being
  • Once the D-O DNS servers respond correctly using a manual ‘dig’ command, use their servers as the authoritative ones for multimedia.cx
  • Create a new Droplet (D-O VPS), install all the right software, move the databases, upload the files ; and exhaustively document each step, gotcha, and pitfall ; treat a VPS as necessarily disposable and have an eye towards iterating the process with a new VPS
  • Use /etc/hosts on a local machine to point DNS to the new server and verify that each site is working correctly
  • After everything looks all right, update the DNS records to point to the new server

  Finally, flip the switch on the MX record by pointing it to the new email provider.

  Improvements and Problems
  Hosting on Digital Ocean is quite amazing so far. Maybe it’s the SSDs. Whatever it is, all the sites are performing far better than on the old shared web host. People who edit the MultimediaWiki report that changes get saved in less than the 10 or so seconds required on the old server.

  Again, all problems are now my problems. A sore spot with the shared web host was general poor performance. The hosting company would sometimes complain that my sites were using too much CPU. I would have loved to try to optimize things. However, the cPanel interface found on many shared hosts don’t give you a great deal of data for debugging performance problems. However, same sites, same software, same load on the VPS is considerably more performant.

  Problem : I’ve already had the MySQL database die due to a spike in usage. I had to manually restart it. I was considering a cron-based solution to check if the server is running and restart it if not. In response to my analysis that my databases are mostly read and not often modified, so db crashes shouldn’t be too disastrous, a friend helpfully reminded me that, “You would not make a good sysadmin with attitudes like ‘an occasional crash is okay’.”

  To this end, I am planning to migrate the database server to a separate VPS. This is a strategy that even Digital Ocean recommends. I’m hoping that the MySQL server isn’t subject to such memory spikes, but I’ll continue to monitor it after I set it up.

  Overall, the server continues to get modest amounts of traffic. I predict it will remain that way unless Dark Shikari resurrects the x264dev blog. The biggest spike that multimedia.cx ever saw was when Steve Jobs linked to this WebM post.

  Dropped Sites
  There are a bunch of subdomains I dropped because I hadn’t done anything with them for years and I doubt anyone will notice they’re gone. One notable section that I decided to drop is the samples.mplayerhq.hu archive. It will live on, but it will be hosted by samples.ffmpeg.org, which had a full mirror anyway. The lower-end VPS instances don’t have the 53 GB necessary.

  Going Forward
  Here’s to another 10 years of multimedia.cx, even if multimedia isn’t as exciting as it was 10 years ago (personal opinion ; I’ll have another post on this later). But at least I can get working on some other projects now that this is done. For the past 4 months or so, whenever I think of doing some other project, I always remembered that this server move took priority over everything else.