The easy way is to integrate something like Mux (YC Winter 2016). The even easier way is to just use an existing player like video js. But I want to start off by building my own solution.
I have the basic player working (still some race conditions to be resolved), so now I am starting to look at tracking viewing behavior. I need to know things like timestamp till which a viewer has watched the video, at what timestamps they paused/played/forwarded it, when they wanted to seek to an earlier time and rewatch a part of it, etc. etc.
Say I start a timer when the viewer presses play. Then for each (milli)second I can check the timestamp of the video - this will let me track if some parts of the video were replayed or fast forwarded. Whenever the viewer presses play/pause/forward, I record the event. I send this info to the server every 1 or 2 or 5 seconds and do the analytics.
Since I haven't done this sort of thing before, I would love to have some inputs on if this ^ is the right approach.
Does it make sense to treat this data as a timeseries data? If not (even if it is), what else is a good way to organize this data?
I assume something like Cassandra (which I haven't used much) is much better suited for this than Postgres (which I am comfortable with). Is this right?
