Vidmon

Video UX monitor tool, Catch long waiting time or bad loading behaviour

Usage

Install

$ npm i owaiskreifeh/vidmon

Basic usage

import { Vidmon, HTMLAdapter } from 'vidmon'

const options = {
    // time thershold between timeupdate events, if we didn't receive timeupdate event before
    // event of type VISUAL_STALL wil be fired
    timeupdateThreshold: 10 * 1000, // default 10sec

    // time thershold between first play event and first timeupdate event
    // if the join time exceded this limit
    // event of type LONG_JOIN_TIME will be fired
    jointimeThershold: 30 * 1000, // default 30sec

    // time thershold between waiting event and next timeupdate event
    // if the join time exceded this limit
    // event of type LONG_WAITING_TIME will be fired
    playAfterWaitingThershold: 5 * 1000, // default 30sec

    // in this time interval if we get more than 3 waiting events in a row
    // event of type MULTI_WAITING_IN_ROW will be fired
    waitingTSDiffThershold: 60 * 1000, // default 30sec
};
const vidmon = new Vidmon(new HTMLAdapter(videoElement), options);
vidmon.start();

Listen to events

Access event types:

Vidmon.Events;

Events:

static EVENTS = {
    LONG_JOIN_TIME: "long-join-time",
    VISUAL_STALL: "visual-stall",
    LONG_WAITING_TIME: "long-waiting-time",
    MULTI_WAITING_IN_ROW: "multi-waiting-in-row",
};

Usage

// Subscribe
vidmon.on(Vidmon.EVENTS.LONG_JOIN_TIME, () => {
    // do something on event of long joining time
});


// Subscribe then destroy after first event 
vidmon.once(Vidmon.EVENTS.LONG_JOIN_TIME, () => {
    // do something on event of long joining time
});

// Unubscribe
vidmon.off(Vidmon.EVENTS.LONG_JOIN_TIME, () => {
    // do something on event of long joining time
});

Access Events timeline

vidmon.playerEventsLogs;

Debugging

Set log level

vidmon.logLevel = Vidmon.LOG_LEVELS.WARNING;

Log levels

static LOG_LEVELS = {
    DISABLED: 0,
    ERROR: 1,
    WARNING: 2,
    INFO: 3,
    DEBUG: 4,
    VERBOSE: 5,
};

Extending Adapters

Check how to use and make your own adapter Here