Video playing duration counting method and system

Abstract

The invention discloses a video playing duration counting method and a video playing duration counting system, used for maintaining a connection between a set top box terminal and a streaming server, and can count the actual playing duration of the set top box terminal. The method comprises the steps that the set top box terminal receives video streaming, starting from the first request time of the set top box terminal, of a channel / program requested to play by the set top box terminal and sent by the streaming server; the set top box terminal initializes a heartbeat request to an application server for the first time, wherein the heartbeat request comprises a check string that comprises the identifier and current request time of the set top box terminal, and the identifier of the channel / program requested to play; the application server receives the heartbeat request, instructs the streaming server to continuously provide the video streaming of the channel / program requested to play to the set top box terminal; and the application server counts the duration that the set top box terminal watches the channel / program requested to play according to the check string in the heartbeat request. The invention provides a scheme which can effectively count the duration that the set top box terminal watches the television program.

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Technical field [0001] The invention relates to the field of multimedia technology, and in particular to a method and system for counting video playing time. Background technique [0002] With the development of network technology, TV set-top box terminals provide TV viewers with clearer and clearer TV program pictures, more stable signals, and more and more diverse forms, which are favored by the majority of TV viewers. However, with the rapid development of the number of TV set-top box terminals, more and more download requests are made to servers that provide video sources of TV programs, which brings a heavy burden to the servers. In particular, since the server that provides the video source of the TV program does not know whether the TV set-top box terminal is online, it will continue to send downloaded video data to the offline TV set-top box terminal, which causes a huge waste of resources. In addition, since the server does not know the specific time when the TV set-top...

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Problems solved by technology

However, with the rapid development of the number of TV set-top box terminals, there are more and more download requests to the server that provides the video source of TV programs, which brings a heavy burden to the server.

In particular, since the server that provides the TV program video source does not know whether the TV set-top box terminal is online, it will continue to send downloaded video data to the offline TV set-top box terminal, which brings a huge waste of resources.

In addition, because the server does not know the specific time when the TV set-top box terminal disconnects itself from the network, it cannot count the actual playing time of the set-top box terminal.

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