Media Playback Time Spent panel
In Analysis Workspace, Playback Time Spent is the amount of time spent viewing your media streams at a specific point in time. It includes pause, buffer, and time to start.
The Media Playback Time Spent panel enables analysis of playback over time, with details on peak concurrency and the ability to break down and compare.
Customers who have purchased the Streaming Media Collection Add-on can analyze playback time spent to gain valuable insight into the quality of content and viewer engagement, and to help when troubleshooting or planning for volume or scale.
Playback Time Spent can help you understand:
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Where peak concurrency occurred
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Where drop-offs occurred
Following is a video overview of this panel:
Use the Media Playback Time Spent panel
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Go to a report suite with streaming media components enabled.
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Select the panel icon on the far-left, then drag the panel into your Analysis Workspace project.
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Continue with the following sections to customize the Media Playback Time Spent panel
Panel Inputs Input
You can configure the Media Playback Time Spent panel using these input settings:
This visualization is limited to 1440 rows of data (for example, 24-hours at minute-level granularity). If a date range and granularity combination results in more than 1440 rows, the granularity is automatically updated to accommodate the full date range.
This visualization is limited to 1440 rows of data (for example, 24-hours at minute-level granularity). If a date range and granularity combination results in more than 1440 rows, the granularity is automatically updated to accommodate the full date range.
If you are using breakdowns, a summary number is displayed for each.
Optionally, you can break down your visualization by segments, dimensions, dimension items, or date ranges.
- You may view up to 10 lines at a time. Breakdowns are limited to a single level.
- When dragging a dimension, the top dimension items will be automatically selected based on the selected panel date range.
- To compare date ranges, drag 2 or more date ranges into the series breakdown filter.
Hours:Minutes:Seconds (default) or in Minutes (which is displayed in whole numbers, rounded up at .5).Default view
Panel Output Output
The Media Playback Time Spent panel returns a line chart and summary numbers to include details for the maximum, minimum, and/or sum of playback time spent. At the top of the panel, a summary line is provided to remind you of the panel settings you selected.
At any time, you can edit and rebuild the panel by clicking the edit pencil on the top right.
If you selected series breakdown, a line on the line chart and a summary number is displayed for each:
Data Source
The only metric that can be used in this panel is Playback Time Spent.
hours:minutes:seconds (or minutes) of content viewed during the selected granularity including pause, buffer, and time to start.FAQs
This visualization is limited to 1440 rows of data (for example, 24-hours at minute-level granularity). If a date range and granularity combination results in more than 1440 rows, the granularity will be automatically updated to accommodate the full date range.
When changing from a larger date range to a smaller one, the granularity will be updated to the lowest detail allowable once the date range is changed. To view a higher granularity, edit the panel and rebuild.