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• Use FFmpeg for continuous streaming from other source

  28 septembre 2017, par widgg

  We have an app that pipes its output, and its output is compress H264 data. The source of the data is from a 3d engine running in same app.

  We can easily pipe the output in FFmpeg to save as mp4 or even m3u8.

  It’s also possible to turn FFmpeg as a server to feed video files.

  So our objective is to have FFmpeg read that data, convert into into mp4 or m3u8 internally and then stream so that it can be read in the web browser.

  We don’t care about be able to replay some file, go back in time or whatever, we just care about the current value.

  Is there a way to do that ? Or a similar solution that would allow some close to that.

  Thanks

  I guess, if it’s possible, it’s like wanting to stream your personal webcam into the web browser. Then you could connect to that and see what is happening at home or wherever your webcam is.

• How can I programmatically write and read random video watermarks ?

  13 novembre 2017, par GreenTriangle

  I spent a few minutes trying to think of a clearer way to word my title, but I couldn’t manage it, sorry.

  I want to essentially canary trap video files : I am (hypothetically, this is not real but a personal exercise) offering them up to 5,000 different people, and if one gets leaked, I want to know who leaked it. Metadata is too easily emoved, so what I’d like to do is add a random and subtle watermark to each file, and store information about that in a database.

  For example : on Joe Smith’s copy, a 10x10 pixel 80% transparent red square in the upper left corner for 5 frames. On Diane Brown’s copy, a full-width 5-pixel 90% transparent black bar on the bottom edge for 15 frames. Then, if I find a leaked copy, I could check it against the database.

  I know this still isn’t foolproof : cropping would break co-ordinates, hue/brightness transforms would break colour reading, cutting time would break timestamps. But if I did want to do this anyway, what would be a good strategy for it ?

  My idea was to generate PNG overlays randomly, split the video into parts with mkvtoolnix/ffmpeg, re-encode the middle part with ffmpeg + overlay filter, and then rejoin them. But is this silly when there’s a "proper" way to do it ? And what would I be doing to read the watermarks, which I can’t even really conceive of ?

• The new GDPR data protection regulation and potential consequences on Piwik

  7 septembre 2017, par Piwik Core Team — About, Privacy

  GDPR is a new data protection related regulation in Europe. GDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulation.

  The purpose of this European regulation is to strengthen and unify data protection for all individuals within the European Union. This also includes entities outside Europe willing to do business with European citizens. GDPR is a set of processes you need to follow within your organization to protect the privacy of European citizens.

  GDPR will start to apply in May 2018. It is recognized to be dissuasive because of the potential penalty of up to 4% of the yearly turnover, in case of infringement.

  Many articles have been written about GDPR including our previous article. Few of them are explaining how it will affect web analytics vendors : this is what this article is about.

  Am I really impacted by GDPR if I am a Piwik user ?

  As Piwik can collect personal data, the answer is yes. Piwik analytics data is impacted by the GDPR.

  As GDPR is a general concept, we decided from the official guidelines to assume what will be the potential consequences on the use of Piwik.

  There are 2 potential scenarios we can identify :

  • 1 – You are collecting personal data with Piwik
  • 2 – You are not collecting personal data with Piwik

  1 – Personal data collection with Piwik

  According to GDPR : IP addresses, cookies, UserID are personal data.

  IP addresses are personal data, so you will have to anonymize them unless you receive explicit consent from the visitor. Please view the following article in order to learn : how can I anonymize IP addresses in Piwik ?

  According to GDPR, cookies are personal data too. But as all cookies are not created equal it may be possible that some need to require user consent whereas other not. Whatever will be the final decision, you can learn about the first-party cookies created by Piwik and how to disable all tracking cookies in Piwik ?

  User ID, you are impacted if the User ID you assign is specific to an individual or if you can cross the User ID data further and find back the individual personal data.

  Any extra personal data you may collect with Piwik, it could be for example : first names, family names, e-mail address… You are able to collect such data using custom dimensions, custom variables…

  What are the rules I have to comply with ?

  By collecting personal data, you will have to respect EU citizens rights, which include :

  • The possibility for them to view the data you collected on them
  • The possibility to rectify some data concerning them
  • The possibility to delete their data when they request about it

  As you can imagine, for the first obligation, you will have to export all the data. So if a user is requesting it, you will have to export the data linked to his IP address(es). It can be easily exported as a .csv file for example.
  In order to do that, just create a segment according to the IP address of the user who requested it and then export the “Visitor log” report.
  If the personal data is not linked with the IP address but other attributes such as User ID or a custom dimension, you can provide the same data export by using the segment function and filtering on the personal data field.

  The data edit and deletion process on Piwik is a bit trickier as it currently requires administration system skills. We are planning to develop a new plugin for GDPR compliance (which will be available for free on the Marketplace). This plugin will let you edit and easily delete data of a particular user. Currently you can delete a specific user’s data by accessing the Piwik database and directly delete the different records for this specific user.

  2 – You are not collecting personal data with Piwik

  Unfortunately it is not because you do not collect personal data that you will not be affected by GDPR.
  The details of GDPR are not confirmed yet and GDPR could involve enabling the DoNotTrack setting by default on all browsers.
  Yes, you read it well, by default, unless the internet user uncheck this option, Piwik respecting DoNoTrack would not be able to track any user. If one needed to collect data anyway, Piwik Log Analytics and server-side tracking can be considered.

  If you need help regarding how to set up your Piwik installation in order to be GDPR compliant :

  Contact us

  Do you have a Piwik experience you would like to share with the community ? Please share it with us by contacting Piwik core team.