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• 5 questions you should ask yourself before defining a custom alert in Matomo

  24 janvier 2018, par InnoCraft

  In Matomo, you can create Custom Alerts to automatically be notified of important changes on your website or app. They are a great way to save time, but they also spam your mailbox quickly. Defining good custom alerts takes therefore time and requires some preparations. Here are recommendations on what you should focus on to only get the right alerts at the right time.

  There are several questions you should ask yourself before you define a custom alert :

  1. Do you really want to be alerted ? If the answer is no, then do not use this feature.
  2. What is the level of this alert ? Not important, interesting, highly critical… if it is not highly critical, do not define an alert for this. Probably the emailing report or custom reports feature will be a better fit.
  3. How would you like to be alerted ? SMS, email, sound, homing pigeon (unfortunately we do not support this feature at that time). If you are looking at your emails once a week, then defining a daily email alert won’t make sense.
  4. How would you like the alert to be named ? Give your alert the most explicit name, that’s the first information you will see when you get alerted.
  5. What will be the next step once the alert is triggered ? If you cannot find any action once the alert is triggered, then probably an alert doesn’t make sense.

  Once those questions are answered, you can start configuring custom alerts. There are many alerts you can define but as just mentioned, which alerts you should create always depends on your goals and what is critical to you, or your business. Let’s look at some custom alerts that we see quite often.

  No visit

  One of the easiest custom alert to define. You probably want to be alerted if your website did not receive any visit. As this alert is highly critical, you will want to receive an e-mail, even an SMS. This alert will trigger only if the number of visits is below 1 on a daily basis :

  

  Here the action we will take is to have a look at the website in order to see if it is still live. If the site still works, we will look at the tracking code in order to see if the website is still correctly tracked or not.

  Convinced of this custom alert ? Let’s look at another example.

  Target achieved

  Let’s say you gave a goal to one of your employee to reach a specific threshold in terms of conversions. You can then define a custom alert in order to inform you when the threshold has been reached.

  You can simply do this with an alert saying “Target achieved by Franck” where number of conversions equals the number of actions you defined with him. It takes you only a minute to define something you would have missed otherwise.

  

  Here the actions we can think of are either to congratulate Franck or to ask him what is going wrong if the target is not achieved.

  Did you know that you can also take advantage of Matomo premium features to define custom alerts ? Let’s see one of them.

  Lost SEO ranking

  If you are using the Search Engine Keyword Performance premium feature, there are really interesting combinations you can use to create custom alerts.
  For example, you can be notified when a specific keyword lost or reached a position :

  

  You will be alerted when your website is losing some positions within the search engine results for specific keywords. Here the action we could take is to investigate why we lost a position on Google for this keyword.

  There are many custom alert combinations waiting for you out there. Why not giving them a try ? If you have any questions, feel free to ask them on the Matomo forums.

  The post 5 questions you should ask yourself before defining a custom alert in Matomo appeared first on Analytics Platform - Matomo.

• Video encoding and keyframes

  24 février 2013, par Tishu

  I am transcoding a video frame by frame and using x264+ffmpeg to encode. The original video plays fine, but the first few frames of my transcoded vide show grey artefacts. I understand this is because of time compression and these artefacts disappear after a few frames.

  See these two pictures which are the first and second frames. The third frame is normal (i.e. no grey artefact and not blurry like the second one)
  
  

  How can I force the first frame to be a key frame (ie fully encoded in my output video) so that these artefacts do not show ?

  Edit - more details

  Here is what I am doing more in details. I used bit form differents tutorials to read a video frame by frame and reencode each frame to a new video. My encoding parameters are the following :

  avcodec_get_context_defaults3(c, *codec);
  
  c->codec_id = codec_id;
  
  c->bit_rate = output_bitrate;
  
  /* Resolution must be a multiple of two. */
  
  c->width    = output_width;
  
  c->height   = output_height;
  
  /* timebase: This is the fundamental unit of time (in seconds) in terms
  
   * of which frame timestamps are represented. For fixed-fps content,
  
   * timebase should be 1/framerate and timestamp increments should be
  
   * identical to 1. */
  
  st->r_frame_rate.num = output_framerate_num;
  
  st->r_frame_rate.den = output_framerate_den;
  
  c->time_base.den = output_timebase_den;
  
  c->time_base.num = output_timebase_num;
  
  c->gop_size      = 3; /* emit one intra frame every twelve frames at most */
  
  c->pix_fmt       = STREAM_PIX_FMT;
  
  if (c->codec_id == AV_CODEC_ID_MPEG2VIDEO) {
  
      /* just for testing, we also add B frames */
  
      c->max_b_frames = 2;
  
  }
  
  if (c->codec_id == AV_CODEC_ID_MPEG1VIDEO) {
  
      /* Needed to avoid using macroblocks in which some coeffs overflow.
  
       * This does not happen with normal video, it just happens here as
  
       * the motion of the chroma plane does not match the luma plane. */
  
      c->mb_decision = 2;
  
  }
  
  c->max_b_frames = 2;
  
  c->scenechange_threshold = 0;
  
  c->rc_buffer_size = 0;
  
  c->me_method = ME_ZERO;

  Then I process each frame, probably doing something wrong there. The decoding bit :

  while(av_read_frame(gFormatCtx, &packet)>=0) {
  
      // Is this a packet from the video stream?
  
      if(packet.stream_index==gVideoStreamIndex) {
  
          // Decode video frame
  
          avcodec_decode_video2(gVideoCodecCtx, pCurrentFrame, &frameFinished, &packet);
  
          // Did we get a video frame?
  
          if(frameFinished) {
  
              [...]
  
              if(firstPts == -999) /*Initial value*/
  
                  firstPts = packet.pts;
  
              deltaPts = packet.pts - firstPts;
  
              double seconds = deltaPts*av_q2d(gFormatCtx->streams[gVideoStreamIndex]->time_base);
  
              [...]
  
              muxing_writeVideoFrame(pCurrentFrame, packet.pts);
  
          }
  
      }
  
  }

  The actual writing :

  int muxing_writeVideoFrame(AVFrame *frame, int64_t pts)
  
  {
  
  frameCount = frameCount +1;
  
  if(frameCount > 0)
  
  {
  
      if (video_st)
  
          video_pts = (double)video_st->pts.val * video_st->time_base.num /
  
                      video_st->time_base.den;
  
      else
  
          video_pts = 0.0;
  
  
  
      if (video_st && !(video_st && audio_st && audio_pts < video_pts))
  
      {
  
          frame->pts = pts;//av_rescale_q(frame_count, video_st->codec->time_base, video_st->time_base);
  
          write_video_frame(oc, video_st, frame);
  
      }
  
  }
  
  
  
  return 0;
  
  }
  
  
  
  static int write_video_frame(AVFormatContext *oc, AVStream *st, AVFrame *frame)
  
  {
  
      int ret;
  
      static struct SwsContext *sws_ctx;
  
      //LOGI(10, frame_count);
  
      AVCodecContext *c = st->codec;
  
  
  
      /* encode the image */
  
      AVPacket pkt;
  
      int got_output;
  
      av_init_packet(&pkt);
  
      pkt.data = NULL;    // packet data will be allocated by the encoder
  
      pkt.size = 0;
  
  ret = avcodec_encode_video2(c, &pkt, frame, &got_output);
  
  if (ret < 0) {
  
      fprintf(stderr, "Error encoding video frame: %s\n", av_err2str(ret));
  
      exit(1);
  
  }
  
  /* If size is zero, it means the image was buffered. */
  
  if (got_output) {
  
      if (c->coded_frame->key_frame)
  
          pkt.flags |= AV_PKT_FLAG_KEY;
  
      pkt.stream_index = st->index;
  
      /* Write the compressed frame to the media file. */
  
      ret = av_interleaved_write_frame(oc, &pkt);
  
  } else {
  
      ret = 0;
  
  }
  
  
  
      if (ret != 0) {
  
          LOGI(10, av_err2str(ret));
  
          exit(1);
  
      }
  
      frame_count++;
  
      return got_output;
  
  }

• Video encoding and keyframes

  24 février 2013, par Tishu

  I am transcoding a video frame by frame and using x264+ffmpeg to encode. The original video plays fine, but the first few frames of my transcoded vide show grey artefacts. I understand this is because of time compression and these artefacts disappear after a few frames.

  See these two pictures which are the first and second frames. The third frame is normal (i.e. no grey artefact and not blurry like the second one)
  
  

  How can I force the first frame to be a key frame (ie fully encoded in my output video) so that these artefacts do not show ?

  Edit - more details

  Here is what I am doing more in details. I used bit form differents tutorials to read a video frame by frame and reencode each frame to a new video. My encoding parameters are the following :

  avcodec_get_context_defaults3(c, *codec);
  
  c->codec_id = codec_id;
  
  c->bit_rate = output_bitrate;
  
  /* Resolution must be a multiple of two. */
  
  c->width    = output_width;
  
  c->height   = output_height;
  
  /* timebase: This is the fundamental unit of time (in seconds) in terms
  
   * of which frame timestamps are represented. For fixed-fps content,
  
   * timebase should be 1/framerate and timestamp increments should be
  
   * identical to 1. */
  
  st->r_frame_rate.num = output_framerate_num;
  
  st->r_frame_rate.den = output_framerate_den;
  
  c->time_base.den = output_timebase_den;
  
  c->time_base.num = output_timebase_num;
  
  c->gop_size      = 3; /* emit one intra frame every twelve frames at most */
  
  c->pix_fmt       = STREAM_PIX_FMT;
  
  if (c->codec_id == AV_CODEC_ID_MPEG2VIDEO) {
  
      /* just for testing, we also add B frames */
  
      c->max_b_frames = 2;
  
  }
  
  if (c->codec_id == AV_CODEC_ID_MPEG1VIDEO) {
  
      /* Needed to avoid using macroblocks in which some coeffs overflow.
  
       * This does not happen with normal video, it just happens here as
  
       * the motion of the chroma plane does not match the luma plane. */
  
      c->mb_decision = 2;
  
  }
  
  c->max_b_frames = 2;
  
  c->scenechange_threshold = 0;
  
  c->rc_buffer_size = 0;
  
  c->me_method = ME_ZERO;

  Then I process each frame, probably doing something wrong there. The decoding bit :

  while(av_read_frame(gFormatCtx, &packet)>=0) {
  
      // Is this a packet from the video stream?
  
      if(packet.stream_index==gVideoStreamIndex) {
  
          // Decode video frame
  
          avcodec_decode_video2(gVideoCodecCtx, pCurrentFrame, &frameFinished, &packet);
  
          // Did we get a video frame?
  
          if(frameFinished) {
  
              [...]
  
              if(firstPts == -999) /*Initial value*/
  
                  firstPts = packet.pts;
  
              deltaPts = packet.pts - firstPts;
  
              double seconds = deltaPts*av_q2d(gFormatCtx->streams[gVideoStreamIndex]->time_base);
  
              [...]
  
              muxing_writeVideoFrame(pCurrentFrame, packet.pts);
  
          }
  
      }
  
  }

  The actual writing :

  int muxing_writeVideoFrame(AVFrame *frame, int64_t pts)
  
  {
  
  frameCount = frameCount +1;
  
  if(frameCount > 0)
  
  {
  
      if (video_st)
  
          video_pts = (double)video_st->pts.val * video_st->time_base.num /
  
                      video_st->time_base.den;
  
      else
  
          video_pts = 0.0;
  
  
  
      if (video_st && !(video_st && audio_st && audio_pts < video_pts))
  
      {
  
          frame->pts = pts;//av_rescale_q(frame_count, video_st->codec->time_base, video_st->time_base);
  
          write_video_frame(oc, video_st, frame);
  
      }
  
  }
  
  
  
  return 0;
  
  }
  
  
  
  static int write_video_frame(AVFormatContext *oc, AVStream *st, AVFrame *frame)
  
  {
  
      int ret;
  
      static struct SwsContext *sws_ctx;
  
      //LOGI(10, frame_count);
  
      AVCodecContext *c = st->codec;
  
  
  
      /* encode the image */
  
      AVPacket pkt;
  
      int got_output;
  
      av_init_packet(&pkt);
  
      pkt.data = NULL;    // packet data will be allocated by the encoder
  
      pkt.size = 0;
  
  ret = avcodec_encode_video2(c, &pkt, frame, &got_output);
  
  if (ret < 0) {
  
      fprintf(stderr, "Error encoding video frame: %s\n", av_err2str(ret));
  
      exit(1);
  
  }
  
  /* If size is zero, it means the image was buffered. */
  
  if (got_output) {
  
      if (c->coded_frame->key_frame)
  
          pkt.flags |= AV_PKT_FLAG_KEY;
  
      pkt.stream_index = st->index;
  
      /* Write the compressed frame to the media file. */
  
      ret = av_interleaved_write_frame(oc, &pkt);
  
  } else {
  
      ret = 0;
  
  }
  
  
  
      if (ret != 0) {
  
          LOGI(10, av_err2str(ret));
  
          exit(1);
  
      }
  
      frame_count++;
  
      return got_output;
  
  }