SQUID - Save money and bandwidth caching streaming video sites with VideoCache

Tested ON - CentOS 5 - Squid 2.6

One problem we face is , people browsing the internet during lunchtime and using a lot of bandwidth in the process of doing so.

What we've noticed is that they go to youtube/break.com and watch a video . If they enjoy the video , the forward the url to the coworkers and the problem gets a lot worse because these videos are never cached on the squid system.

We've been using VideoCache(http://cachevideos.com/) with a lot of success recently.Configration and installation is a breeze

1)yum install python-iniparse
2) wget http://cachevideos.com/sites/default/files/pub/videocache/videocache-1.9.0.noarch.rpm (This will change as new releases come out so get the latest version if possible)
3)rpm -i videocache-1.9.0.noarch.rpm
4)Added the following directives to my squid.conf file

# --BEGIN-- videocache config for squid
url_rewrite_program /usr/bin/python /usr/share/videocache/videocache.py
url_rewrite_children 7
acl videocache_allow_url url_regex -i \.youtube\.com\/get_video\?
acl videocache_allow_url url_regex -i \.googlevideo\.com\/videoplayback \.googlevideo\.com\/videoplay \.googlevideo\.com\/get_video\?
acl videocache_allow_url url_regex -i \.google\.com\/videoplayback \.google\.com\/videoplay \.google\.com\/get_video\?
acl videocache_allow_url url_regex -i \.google\.[a-z][a-z]\/videoplayback \.google\.[a-z][a-z]\/videoplay \.google\.[a-z][a-z]\/get_video\?
acl videocache_allow_url url_regex -i (25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\/videoplayback\?
acl videocache_allow_url url_regex -i (25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\/videoplay\?
acl videocache_allow_url url_regex -i (25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\/get_video\?
acl videocache_allow_url url_regex -i proxy[a-z0-9\-][a-z0-9][a-z0-9][a-z0-9]?\.dailymotion\.com\/
acl videocache_allow_url url_regex -i vid\.akm\.dailymotion\.com\/
acl videocache_allow_url url_regex -i [a-z0-9][0-9a-z][0-9a-z]?[0-9a-z]?[0-9a-z]?\.xtube\.com\/(.*)flv
acl videocache_allow_url url_regex -i bitcast\.vimeo\.com\/vimeo\/videos\/
acl videocache_allow_url url_regex -i va\.wrzuta\.pl\/wa[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]?
acl videocache_allow_url url_regex -i \.files\.youporn\.com\/(.*)\/flv\/
acl videocache_allow_url url_regex -i \.msn\.com\.edgesuite\.net\/(.*)\.flv
acl videocache_allow_url url_regex -i media[a-z0-9]?[a-z0-9]?[a-z0-9]?\.tube8\.com\/ mobile[a-z0-9]?[a-z0-9]?[a-z0-9]?\.tube8\.com\/
acl videocache_allow_url url_regex -i \.mais\.uol\.com\.br\/(.*)\.flv
acl videocache_allow_url url_regex -i \.video[a-z0-9]?[a-z0-9]?\.blip\.tv\/(.*)\.(flv|avi|mov|mp3|m4v|mp4|wmv|rm|ram)
acl videocache_allow_url url_regex -i video\.break\.com\/(.*)\.(flv|mp4)
acl videocache_allow_dom dstdomain .mccont.com dl.redtube.com .cdn.dailymotion.com
acl videocache_deny_url url_regex -i http:\/\/[a-z][a-z]\.youtube\.com http:\/\/www\.youtube\.com
url_rewrite_access deny videocache_deny_url
url_rewrite_access allow videocache_allow_url
url_rewrite_access allow videocache_allow_dom
redirector_bypass on
# --END-- videocache config for squid

5)Changed the following parameters in the /etc/videocache.conf

cache_host = 192.168.1.254
proxy = http://192.168.1.254:3128/
base_dir = /var/spool/videocache/:4000

6)Restart SQUID -> service squid restart

7)Look if it is working -> tail -f /var/log/videocache/videocache.log