Videocache For Linux

The Videocache project is a Squid URL rewriter plugin written in Python for bandwidth optimization while browsing famous video sharing portals/websites like Youtube, Metacafe etc. It helps you save bandwidth when a particular video is requested more than once from the same network/machine.

Squid can not cache the videos served dynamically. Videocache fits into squid to help it cache the videos as well. The cached videos are stored on your server's local hard disk and you can browse them as if you downloaded them. You can copy them to other machines as well.

Videocache currently supports the caching of dynamically served videos from the following websites

1. Youtube Videos - youtube.com and all country specific sub-domains like in.youtube.com. This includes the youtube videos served from Google (googlevideo.com) servers. 2. Metacafe Videos - metacafe.com 3. DailyMotion Videos - dailymotion.com 4. Google Videos - video.google.com 5. Vimeo HD Videos - vimeo.com 6. Wrzuta Audio - wrzuta.pl (not videos) 7. MSN Soapbox Videos - soapbox.msn.com 8. Blip TV Videos (Including High Quality) - blip.tv 9. Break Videos (Including High Quality) - break.com 10. TV UOL (Brazil) - tvuol.uol.com.br 11. Red Tube Videos 12. X Tube Videos 13. You Pron Videos 14. Tube8 Videos

Introduction

* VideoCache Home  * Download  * Installation  * Upgrading  * Configuration  * Tech Support  * FAQs  * Videocache Cleaner  * Todo List  * Latest Updates  * Response Codes  * Update Script

User login Log in using OpenID: [Max field length is 255] What is OpenID? Username: * [Max field length is 60] Password: * [Max field length is 60] Remember me

* Log in using OpenID  * Cancel OpenID login

* Create new account  * Request new password

VideoCache Hacks

* Install on Ubuntu/Debian  * Lighttpd + Ubuntu/Debian  * Install on PFSense  * Install on PFSense (aliter)  * Install on MacOS X  * Install with SquidGuard + AdZapper + FreeBSD

Developer Blogs

* Videocache: Added Support of New Youtube/Metacafe URLs (1.9.2)  * Videocache Renovation

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New version 1.9.2 of Videocache has added support for new URLs/domains being used by Youtube and Metacafe to serve videos. 1.9.2 performs much better as compared to all previous versions and will not eat up your CPU :-) Proceed to download page right now and enjoy caching. See notes about 1.9.2 here.

We are trying to renovate videocache by adding a lot of new features like Statistics, Web interface for Administration etc. Please see this blog post and provide your comments/suggestions in videocache renovation forum topic. VideoCache - Cache Videos Using Squid

Videocache is a Squid URL rewriter plugin written in Python for bandwidth optimization while browsing famous video sharing portals/websites like Youtube, Metacafe etc. It helps you save bandwidth when a particular video is requested more than once from the same network/machine.

Squid can not cache the videos served dynamically. Videocache fits into squid to help it cache the videos as well. The cached videos are stored on your server's local hard disk and you can browse them as if you downloaded them. You can copy them to other machines as well. Supported Websites

Videocache currently supports the caching of dynamically served videos from the following websites

1. Youtube Videos - youtube.com and all country specific sub-domains like in.youtube.com. This includes the youtube videos served from Google (googlevideo.com) servers.  2. Metacafe Videos - metacafe.com  3. DailyMotion Videos - dailymotion.com  4. Google Videos - video.google.com  5. Vimeo HD Videos - vimeo.com  6. Wrzuta Audio - wrzuta.pl (not videos)  7. MSN Soapbox Videos - soapbox.msn.com  8. Blip TV Videos (Including High Quality) - blip.tv  9. Break Videos (Including High Quality) - break.com  10. TV UOL (Brazil) - tvuol.uol.com.br  11. Red Tube Videos  12. X Tube Videos  13. You Pron Videos  14. Tube8 Videos

Videocache currently supports caching of following audio/video formats from the websites specified above

* flv, 3gp, mp3, wmv, mp4, rm, ram, mov, avi, m4v

Videocache currently works on almost every Linux/Unix based Operating Systems like Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat, RHEL, OpenSuSE, Mandriva, Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Slackware.