Use Video Analytics in a PSDK-based Player

Video Analytics is Adobe's video-tracking solution, which is available to you through the Primetime SDK.

The Adobe Video Analytics feature encompasses two aspects of video tracking:
  • Primetime Player Monitoring - This is provided with the PSDK. It provides real-time metrics about the quality of streaming, including the buffer rate, error rate, average bit rate, active streams, and startup time.
  • Adobe Analytics Video Essentials - This is an add-on service. It provides video engagement metrics after the fact (nonrealtime), including video views, video completes, ad impressions, time spent on video, and more. For more information, contact your Adobe representative.

The following summarizes what you need to do to activate real-time video tracking in your PSDK-based player.

  1. Initialize and configure the Video Analytics tracking components:
    • AppMeasurement library - Contains the low-level data collection core logic. This is where the video heartbeat data is accumulated and sent over the network.
    • Video heartbeat library - Contains the video-heartbeat data collection core logic. The video heartbeat library uses the AppMeasurement module in the sense that it needs access to a subset of its APIs, and delegates some work to it.
      Note: You do not interact directly with the video heartbeat code, but instead use the PSDK API to configure and enable the video heartbeat real-time video tracking capabilities.

    Important - The PSDK's built-in video tracking capability depends on a properly configured AppMeasurement instance. The PSDK tracking elements assume that the AppMeasurement library is already instantiated and configured before undertaking the configuration and activation of real-time video tracking. The PSDK delegates certain operations to the AppMeasurement library, thus the video tracking capabilities of the PSDK depend on the existence of a fully functional, properly configured instance of the AppMeasurement library.

  2. Set up Video Analytics reporting on the server side, using Adobe Analytics Admin Tools and accessing Primetime Player Monitoring.
  3. Access the Video Analytics reports on the real-time dashboard.