AreWeCompressedYet

AreWeCompressedYet is an automatic service for compressing videos with Daala and generating graphs using different metrics, to enable comparisons between different versions of the Daala source code.

Command-line tools

submit_awcy.py

Usage:

 DAALA_ROOT=./ submit_awcy.py --help

You must have a secret_key file in the current directory, containing your key to access AreWeCompressedYet.

By default, the prefix used for the run is your local branch name.

Repos

https://github.com/tdaede/awcy

https://github.com/tdaede/rd_tool

Machine

The server is a CentOS 7 virtual machine running on catfish.xiph.org. There are few config file changes, so the CentOS machine should be easily upgradeable to get security fixes.

Daemons

awcy

The AWCY server has a unit file at /etc/systemd/system/awcy.service. It listens at localhost:3000.

nginx

NGINX is configured to be a TLS endpoint and proxy_pass to localhost:3000.

chrony

Chrony is required to keep the system time in sync. Amazon Web Services signatures require an accurate system clock.

journald

See AWCY logs with

 journalctl -u awcy.service

Directory Structure

-rw-rw-r--.  1 awcy awcy 3078 Aug 19 19:06 awcy_server.js
-rwxrwxr-x.  1 awcy awcy  169 Aug 17 23:43 create_test_branch.sh
drwxrwxr-x. 12 awcy awcy 4096 Aug 20 16:31 daala
-rw-------.  1 root root 1692 Aug 18 16:26 daala.pem
drwxrwxr-x. 14 awcy awcy 4096 Aug 19 15:02 daalatool
-rw-rw-r--.  1 awcy awcy 1079 Aug  7 19:31 LICENSE
drwxrwxr-x.  5 awcy awcy   48 Aug 17 23:47 node_modules
-rwxrwxr-x.  1 awcy awcy  124 Aug 18 17:22 nuke_branch.sh
drwxrwxr-x.  3 awcy awcy 4096 Aug 18 17:17 rd_tool
-rw-rw-r--.  1 awcy awcy   10 Aug  7 19:31 README.md
drwxrwxr-x. 25 awcy awcy 4096 Aug 20 19:49 runs
-rwxrwxr-x.  1 awcy awcy  148 Aug 17 23:43 run_video_test.sh
-rw-rw-r--.  1 awcy awcy   23 Aug 17 23:48 secret_key
-rwxrwxr-x.  1 awcy awcy 1212 Aug 19 14:27 submit_awcy.py
drwxrwxr-x.  2 awcy awcy 4096 Aug 19 21:33 www

.ssh/config contents:

Host *
      	StrictHostKeyChecking no
        UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null
        LogLevel ERROR