VAST pre-roll playing in small window simultanously with main clip

[adammada]

I'm trying to use your plugin to play pre-roll, using google example tag:

https://developers.google.com/interactive-media-ads/docs/vastinspector

http://ad.doubleclick.net/pfadx/N270.132652.1516607168321/B3442378.3;dcadv=1379578;sz=0x0;ord=79879;dcmt=text/xml

But it just starts to play ad together with main clip, and ad area is smaller than flowplayer area. What is proper form to use it?

[thatguystone]

Which version of flowplayer are you using? And could you paste in your flowplayer config?

[adammada]

Sorry, for not giving more details:

flowplayer config:

flowplayer( "a.flowplayer", "/js/assets/flowplayer/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.16.swf", { key: "#$c3ed5658c4f45549dae", clip: { scaling: "fit" }, debug: true, plugins: { ima: { url: "/js/assets/flowplayer/flowplayer.ima-3.2.7.swf" } }, onLoad: function() { this.getPlugin("ima")._fireEvent("onUpdate"); this.getPlugin("ima").playAd("http://ad.doubleclick.net/pfadx/N270.132652.1516607168321/B3442378.3;dcadv=1379578;sz=0x0;ord=79879;dcmt=text/xml"); }
} );

flowplayer with splash image, so video is runned after cliking on img.

And how it looks in screen.

[thatguystone]

I'm starting to realize how woefully out of date my documentation is. I'll give it an update. In the meantime, give this config a shot:

flowplayer( "a.flowplayer", "http://releases.flowplayer.org/swf/flowplayer-3.2.16.swf", {
    key: "#$c3ed5658c4f45549dae",
    clip: {
        scaling: "fit"
    },

    debug: true,

    plugins: {
        ima: {
            url: "/js/assets/flowplayer/flowplayer.ima-3.2.7.swf"
        }
    },

    playlist: [
        {
            provider: 'ima',
            url: 'http://ad.doubleclick.net/pfadx/N270.132652.1516607168321/B3442378.3;dcadv=1379578;sz=0x0;ord=79879;dcmt=text/xml'
        },
        {
            url: 'http://pseudo01.hddn.com/vod/demo.flowplayervod/Extremists.flv'
        }
    ]
});

The this.getPlugin("ima").playAd function is for forcing FP to play an ad, and it will play over everything. Providing the ad as a clip in a playlist makes it function like you would expect.

[adammada]

It works! Thank you. And about documentation:

Provides basic support for VAST ads. You can only give it a URL to some VAST xml, and it will play whatever it finds in there.

This means only pre-rolls, right? What if in VAST will be something more, like "mid-roll" ?

[thatguystone]

As longs as it's part of a flowplayer playlist, it should work the same.

[OmahaMetro]

Anyone got this to work with Drupal 7.0?

[thatguystone]

I've never actually worked with Drupal, but why wouldn't this work with Drupal? What's going wrong with it?