lazy mode: contact ad-server when starting to play, not when loading the player

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currently, the adserver is contacted and an adrequest made when the flash 
video player is loaded. it would be quite handy to also have a mode, where 
the adserver is only contacted when the user actually clicks on play (or 
the player is in autoplay mode).

this would be helpful if the current webpage contains more than one video 
to play. currently, when having more than one video on a page, ad view 
capping doesn't really work as i would have expected.

scenario 1:
- 1 page with 2 videos
- 1 campaign with 1 video preoload ad with 1 view per user per session

as far as i understand, currently, the ad would be shown twice when the 
user plays both videos, instead of just once.

scenario 2:
- 1 page with 2 videos
- 1 campaign A with 1 video preoload ad with 1 view per user per session, 
weight 10
- 1 campaign B with 1 video preoload ad with 1 view per user per session, 
weight 1

as far as i understand, currently, the ad from campaign A would be shown 
twice, whereas the one from B wouldn't be seen.

if the adserver would be only contacted when the video is about to play, 
it would know when the 2nd player is started that the first ad is already 
shown. 

as an added bonus, this would lower the load on the adserver, as i have 
some pages with 10 videos and more...

maybe this is already possible, or maybe it should already work and my 
setup is broken?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by outnow...@gmail.com on 27 Feb 2010 at 3:32

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Yep, this is a good suggestion. I've been terming this "on-demand" mode in 
other requests where the VAST 
request is made "on-demand" just before a stream is to be played. Working on 
this, but it's a big change and 
requires a fair amount of rework. Don't have a definitive schedule for it yet, 
but i'm marking it as critical to put 
high priority on it.

Original comment by paul.sch...@gmail.com on 20 Apr 2010 at 10:20

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Moved to enhancement

Original comment by paul.sch...@gmail.com on 20 Apr 2010 at 8:01

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A long time coming but I am about to tackle this issue. Have moved the issue to 
the new OVA developer site for further tracking. See 

http://developer.longtailvideo.com/ova/ticket/20

Original comment by paul.sch...@gmail.com on 5 Aug 2010 at 7:11

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