Remove need for duration

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Remove the need for a duration to be specified in the config

Original issue reported on code.google.com by paul.sch...@gmail.com on 31 Aug 2009 at 8:01

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Implement as example 21

Original comment by paul.sch...@gmail.com on 31 Aug 2009 at 8:01

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Do you mean duration from the flash config?

There might be issues with users specifying a wrong duration
- specified duration too long: player would show a blank or hang for a few 
seconds.
could we go directly to the video content if the specified duration in the VAST 
is
too long?
- specfiied duration too short: might be desired effect. 

Original comment by matthieu...@gmail.com on 2 Sep 2009 at 4:05

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Request also made by Greg on this:

But we tested a bit with the 0.2.1. version and found something strange.
Perhaps it is a bug?

In some cases it isn't possible to know the clip-duration of the "normal" clips.
Is there any solution, to start a video without the duration parameter like in 
the older versions?

playlist = [ { "file":"http://myclip-url.flv","duration":"00:00:30" } ];

Original comment by paul.sch...@gmail.com on 4 Sep 2009 at 6:52

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Moved to critical for next release.

Extra note - Flowplayer won't actually need duration even for mid-roll/child 
clips due to the API it has - JW 
Player will - so probably need to add something like:

_VASTController.requireDurationWhenSlicing = true

Need to work out what the default option is - probably true, so Flowplayer OAS 
would set the line and turn it 
off in the function that slices and dices the stream sequence

Original comment by paul.sch...@gmail.com on 15 Sep 2009 at 9:49

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Oops, forgot to move to critical status - moved now.

Original comment by paul.sch...@gmail.com on 15 Sep 2009 at 9:50

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Just a vote for this to get worked on.  Thanks.

Original comment by jkra...@gmail.com on 2 Nov 2009 at 4:20

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Is there any workaround for this issue that can be used right now? I have to
implement a Flowplayer-based solution with the OpenAdStreamer plugin for a site 
that
has thousands of videos without the length stored anywhere.

Even a dirty hack inside the plugin itself would greatly help me out.

Original comment by tschneid...@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2009 at 11:41

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Right now, I can't think of anything that will work as a hack... you could try 
just configuring the show streams as 
a standard flowplayer playlist (as per example 
http://static.bouncingminds.com/examples/openadstreamer/flowplayer/examples/all-
example43.html and 
leave the duration off and see what happens).

This issue is high on my TO DO list now - I'm about 3 weeks from a release with 
it sorted, but that doesn't help 
in the short term...

Original comment by paul.sch...@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2009 at 11:48

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Thanks for the quick response!

Unfortunately, using a standard playlist doesn't change anything - the shows 
without
a duration are just completely ignored.

I think I'll probably have to start loading the videos in the preloader, getting
their length and injecting that into the configuration or some such horrible 
thing.

Thanks anyway!

Original comment by tschneid...@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2009 at 12:35

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Here is my ugly workaround.  A shell script on the media server uses ffmpeg to 
get
durations for a defined set of files, writes it out to a file then transfers 
the file
to the site hosting server.  A perl script used as a server-side include on the
hosting site takes a filename as a param and returns the duration.

Mike

Original comment by jkra...@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2009 at 2:45

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Thanks for making this high on your priority list.  Any update on the progress?

Original comment by sleekdig...@gmail.com on 11 Jan 2010 at 10:08

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Hi, I'm working on this right now - trying to get it into this next release 
which I wanted out this week, but looks 
like it will be early next week.. Struggling a bit on it, but getting there. 
Please email me at 
paul.schulz@bouncingminds.com if you want more direct info ;)

Original comment by paul.sch...@gmail.com on 12 Jan 2010 at 8:26

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Early this week is over :-)
Sorry... I know developers have hard life. Any change to get this fixed? I have 
the
same problem too and there are about 20k movies withot duration.

Original comment by rechenge...@gmail.com on 19 Feb 2010 at 10:53

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Still working on it (literally right now) - removing the duration has massively 
de-stablised the framework so it's 
taking a lot of testing and fixing, particularly across the complex 
configuration cases.. can't promise that it will 
be out in the next few days, but it is very close. Trying to get the release 
out by end this month (Feb)....

If you email me at paul.schulz@bouncingminds.com I can provide you with a test 
build in the next day or two to 
start testing... 

Original comment by paul.sch...@gmail.com on 19 Feb 2010 at 11:01

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The project home page shows a new release is coming very soon.  Perhaps the this
update will be in there.

Original comment by skrich...@gmail.com on 19 Feb 2010 at 11:02

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Yep, it will definitely be in the next release - it's a major part of the next 
release along with support for linear 
interactive (SWF and image) ads, new ad servers etc.

Original comment by paul.sch...@gmail.com on 19 Feb 2010 at 11:04

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Done - as of 0.5.0 FP RC1

Original comment by paul.sch...@gmail.com on 1 Apr 2010 at 4:06

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