videojs has a method selectSource (https://github.com/videojs/video.js/blob/master/src/js/player.js#L1119) for this purpose and that should replace the vidFormat list (https://github.com/theonion/videojs-vast-plugin/blob/master/videojs.vast.js#L213) if we can get this method exposed by videojs

Hi !
I'm trying to add ads on videojs player.
I've no problem with preroll ads but I didn't found some doc about post-roll with this plugin.
It's possible or not ?
If is yes can you help me :) and if is not can you help me too :)

Thx !

I don’t know much about VAST but I’ve been trying to setup this plugin. It worked nicely on some simple examples but as soon as I was using the actual XML VAST definition that I need to use, it wouldn’t work and I would get javascript errors about my tracking events. Removing the tracking events would fix the issue.

The errors were from vast-client.js. You can see the issue I opened here dailymotion/vast-client-js#53. But then, I tried updating the the latest vast-client and that seems to fix the issue!

It would probably be a good thing to update to the latest vast-client.js in this repo. I just have no idea if this breaks some things or not.

As title suggest, could you please clarify if this plugin works on 4.0?

any way to make it work on multiple videos ?

Thank you.

With this feature it'll be great!

If the VAST file specifies multiple files of the same type but in different resolutions, then whatever video is listed first seems to be picked. It would seem to be better to pick based on the resolution of the ad video and then looking at the size of the video player to pick the best fitting ad video.

My thoughts would be to pick the video resolution that is equal to or exceeds the dimensions of the video player in either the height or width direction. So the lowest resolution video whose height or width >= player height or width.

Example:

• VAST provides 160 x 120 px and 640 x 480 px
• Player is 320 x 240 px

So the 640 x 480 rendering would be chosen so that no scaling up is done.

Autoplay works properly when the VAST returns ads; but in case of empty/no-response, the video doesn't autoplay.

videojs version: 4.11.1
browsers tested: chrome/firefox

video js 3.2.0 support vast.plugin.js but the highest vertion not support vast.plugin.js

I am using google DFP . it works fine in the pc browsers but not iPad safari

How to fix this ? many thanks

If Vast tag not returning with video Video js not playing on clicking play button. have to click play twice to play the video. is there any method to handle this situation?

When I test the plugin with chrome while emulating apple iphone 5, vast-blocker element comes to screen and skip counter also. But vieo does not play nor counter. I write myvideo.load() to console and it starts normally.

Video js debug writes this to console :

VIDEOJS: ads preroll? -> ad-playback
VIDEOJS: ads ads-ready -> ad-playback

The question is simple.... I try but I can't play rtmp or hls video ref

I'm trying to use this plugin with DFP and we often have wrappers. Can you please add support for wrappers?

Hi,

When i click skipad button, tracking pause and complete called, can i ignore these tracking?
Only call tracking skip event...

And for complete ad, i only want call complete tracking, do not call pause.

Can you help me, how i can do that?

Thanks a lot,

Hello,

just noticed that if I try to use vast plugin in combination with youtube plugin, ads don't play at all. Depending on invocation types I either get no errors, or get this error:

Sorry, no compatible source and playback technology were found for this video. 
Try using another browser like <a href="http://bit.ly/ccMUEC">Chrome</a> or 
download the latest <a href="http://adobe.ly/mwfN1">Adobe Flash Player</a>

If I switch back to webm sources ads are working just fine.

I try to use this code in two different ways. First way is almost the same, as in this primer:
http://theonion.github.io/videojs-vast-plugin/
Here is the part of playVideo(url):

function playVideo(url) {
// ......
  var video = videojs('vast-video', {
    preload: 'auto',
    width: 600,
    height: 400,
    techOrder: ["youtube", "html5"],
  });

  video.src([
  {
     src: "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjS6SftYQaQ",
     type: "video/youtube"
   }
 ]);
  video.controls(true);
  try {
    video.ads();
    video.vast({
      url: url,
      skip: 2
    });
    video.play();
  foo = video; //debug

  } catch(e) {
    alert(e);
  }
}

The second has the following html:

 <!doctype html>
 <head>
  <title>Video.JS Example</title>
  <link href="http://vjs.zencdn.net/4.7/video-js.css" rel="stylesheet">
  <script src="http://vjs.zencdn.net/4.4.3/video.js"></script>

  <script src="http://theonion.github.io/videojs-vast-plugin/vast-client.js"></script>
  <script src="video.ads.js"></script>
  <script src="videojs.vast.js"></script>
  <script src="youtube.js"></script>

</head>
<body>
  <video id="vid1" 
    class="video-js vjs-default-skin" 
    width="640" height="360"
    controls 
    data-setup='{}'>
  </video>
<script>

  var vid1 = videojs('vid1', {"techOrder": ["html5", "youtube"]});
  try {

    vid1.src(
      {
        src: "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjS6SftYQaQ",
        type: "video/youtube"   
      }
    );

    vid1.ads();

    vid1.vast({
        url: "vast.xml",
        skip: 4 // Does not work, I don't see a skip button
    });
    vid1.controls(true);
    // vid1.play();
    // vid1.techOrder = ["youtube", "html5"];
  } catch(e) {
    alert("error:" + e);
  }  
</script>
</body>

Am I doing something wrong, or is it a bug? If it is a bug, can someone help me to find and correct it?

Doesn't look like our on-site players do this. Need to investigate why.

I have a pre-roll video playing via VAST. Works well (Thank you)

After the video plays, I want to automatically reload the player and play the next video. I have tried different methods, but the pre-roll video doesn't play.

The kinda confusing part is that there is an videojs .ended() event fires when the VAST pre-roll video ends. (I am not sure that it should from an overall perspective)

I am ok with reloading the player and getting another pre-roll video but for some reason I can't get it to try to reload another video when the ended event fires. Any ideas?

 vid2.ready(function(){
          this.on("ended", function(){ 
                    console.log("ended");
                    var vid2 = videojs("vid2");
                    vid2.dispose();
                    //put it back into the same div
                    videojs("vid2", {"preload":"auto","width":1920,"height":1080}, function(){
                    // Player (this) is initialized and ready.
                    this.src("http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.mp4");
                     this.ads();
                        this.vast({
                          skip: -1,
                      url: 'https://vastserver/example'
                            });
                    });
                    this.play();


          });

Video JS 4.11.1
VASt plugin 0.1.2

In the pre-roll video is played in the format flv after which the movie starts again, and the main video does not play.

If during this movie go to watch the main video, the video starts playing again.

The file contains only VAST videos in flv format.

If the file has VAST videos in MP4, everything works correctly.

Please help fix bugs!!!

Hello,
I have a list of different videos on a single webpage, when I am using example code with diiferent video player ID only first video ad is playing.
Can you please help me to resolve this?

Travis is up - let's use it.

So I copied the tutorial down exactly and everything works great, it loads the testad from livereal and everything is great, However whenever I change it to another vast2.0 complient XML file it breaks giving "net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED" in the vast-client.js line 1352. Any idea what is going on and how I can fix it? This is on a locally stored XML file If I use a remote XML file I get "No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin" error

I am trying to get this plugin working. I have my ad server generating the xml

http://banners.midnightvenushost.com/banners/www/delivery/fc.php?script=bannerTypeHtml:vastInlineBannerTypeHtml:vastInlineHtml&source=&format=vast&charset=UTF_8&nz=1&zones=pre-roll-0%3D1%7Cmid-roll-0%3D1%7Cpost-roll-0%3D1

But i can not seem to figure out how to get it to play the ad.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Hello,

Is there any easy way to change "skip" text.

Thanks.

Hi,
we have a vast that redirects to another vast server.
This works in google-chrome but not in firefox.
(Currently I can't test IE)

Testurl: http://kino-zeit.de/playertest

VAST url: http://ad.dc2.adtech.de/?advideo/3.0/1076.1/3664276/0//cc=2;vidAS=PRE_ROLL;vidRT=VAST;cors=yes;vidRTV=2.0.1

Thanks for any help on that.

Hi ,

I try to config plugin VAST on my mobile site . But i have some trouble

1 . on Iphone : I can play video ads , but can not click it
2 . on android , When i want click pause video ads , its redirect to destination link in VAST file . I try to back my mobile site and click play button . But it can not play again , it only redirect to destination link. I must refesh page

Please help me check

Hello,

Is there any API that can be used once the ad has been skipped or finished?

We are planing to use the player in a pre-roll so once the user engaged with the ad (closed it or finished watching it), the player should be removed to give access to the content on the page.

Not sure if the player itself or the plugin can allow us listening to this event and fire our own function that will remove the player from the page.

Thanks for your help,

It's hooked up to Sauce Labs - now lets write some actual tests

I do have a case in which it is necessary to know whether the VAST tag is empty or not, before displaying the player at all.
I am building a rotation system including non-VAST delivery. If VAST tags are not available, I want to be able to react on JavaScript side.

This led me to change the videojs-vast-plugin code, by overwriting the events defined in videojs.vast.js:
'vast-ready', 'vast-preroll-ready', 'vast-preroll-removed', 'contentupdate', 'readyforpreroll'

Are there any plans to include VAST prefetch with callback as a functionality?

Tanks in advance!

I can not tracking click for ClickTracking, but i can tracking for ClickThrough

Please help me, Thanks a lot.

hi,
how can i disable the control when the ad is playing, or disable until the skip button get active

Hi,
this is really great. It would even be better if one could turn off the skip function.
And if there would be a messag "Advertising. Your movie starts in xx Seconds".
If anyone could give me a hint on how to do that (?).
Thanks

Using the Video.js option loop causes the pre-roll to play over and over.

Video.js VAST plugin examples.

<video id="vid1" class="video-js vjs-default-skin" controls preload="auto"
    poster="http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.png"
    data-setup='{}'
    width='640'
    height='400'
    >
  <source src="http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.mp4" type='video/mp4'>
  <source src="http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.webm" type='video/webm'>
  <source src="http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.ogv" type='video/ogg'>
  <p>Video Playback Not Supported</p>
</video>

<video id="vid2" class="video-js vjs-default-skin" autoplay controls loop="True" preload="auto"
    poster="http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.png"
    data-setup='{}'
    width='640'
    height='400'
    >
  <source src="http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.mp4" type='video/mp4'>
  <source src="http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.webm" type='video/webm'>
  <source src="http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.ogv" type='video/ogg'>
  <p>Video Playback Not Supported</p>
</video>

I am using a third-party video ad server as my video ad server. Frequency capping is not working. For example, when I set a frequency cap of 3 impressions per hour, that cap is ignored. If I refresh and play the video 30 times, the video ad will display 30 times instead of only 3. The ad serving engineer tells me that the reason for this problem is that the ad serving request is coming from this plugin and not from the browser. Note: I have tested the ad code using an OVA VAST inspector and frequency capping works just fine. Can someone tell me how to correct this problem?
Thanks!

We're using videojs v4.5.2 and videojs-vast-plugin and it supports VAST 2. We show a preroll video using DFP. The skip video link has a default of 5 secs. We found that if the video player supports VAST 3 then we can set a different value for skip link for example 10 secs using DFP admin. My question is: Does videojs v4.5.2 and or the videojs plugin has support for VAST 3?

Thanks,

Fernando

see here

Hi,

Id like to check if there is an option to develop the VPAID plugin for the videojs player. Were ready to pay for the implementation so if there is any interest from your side pls share your e-mail and i`ll shoot you the requirements.

Thanks in advance
Alex

Added a few things - skipButton changes, adclick, and maybe some writeup on video file formats.

The plugin is working fine for the pre-roll ads as long as there is always a VAST response, however when an ad-server doesn't respond, or the vast is empty, the content never starts and the loading icon keeps spinning.

Hello,

I was wondering if you were planing to be VAST/VPAID complaint too soon? It seems that a lot of ad. agency are only proving VPAID tag.

How hard will it be to have a plugin that could be VAST/VPAID compliant?

Cheers,

If the VAST feed has only invalid mime-types, createSourceObjects returns an empty array. At this point, the plugin should trigger "adtimeout," but the player just hangs instead.

Using the Video.js option loop causes the pre-roll to play over and over.

Replicate:

In demo.html that's included with the source, change the line

<video id="vid2" class="video-js vjs-default-skin" autoplay controls preload="auto"

to

<video id="vid2" class="video-js vjs-default-skin" autoplay controls loop="True" preload="auto"

How can i integrate Vimeo plugin and Vast plugin

var vid1 = videojs('vid2', { "techOrder": ["vimeo"], "src": "https://vimeo.com/63186969" });
vid1.ads();
vid1.vast({
url: 'http://ad3.liverail.com/?LR_PUBLISHER_ID=1331&LR_CAMPAIGN_ID=229&LR_SCHEMA=vast2'
});

With this code, the ad is played, but at the end, player doesn't switch to the vimeo videojs player.
I must say that vimeo plugin works too.

What version of Video.js, and any plugins used?
VideoJS 4.3.0
videojs-vimeo: https://github.com/eXon/videojs-vimeo
vast-video-js: https://github.com/PetroFrolov/vast-video-js

Code example:

poster="http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.png"
src="https://vimeo.com/63186969"
data-setup='{}'
width='640'
height='400'

Thanks for your help

We are using the plugin "videojs-resolution-selector". First time ad plays, main video gets play, if user changes the HD/SD. I think player gets reinitialized and ad plays again then main video. any hint?
I have set a flag but not working
if( !INIT_Ad) {
videoPlayer.ads();
videoPlayer.vast({
url: vastArray[Math.floor(Math.random() * vastArray.length)]
});
INIT_Ad = true;
}
videojs-resolution-selector; https://github.com/dominic-p/videojs-resolution-selector

I noticed that the skip button never notifies that vastTracker that an ad has been skipped.

is there any call back or variable to check if the ad is playing or main video. we need this. we are logging the events of main video , video started, and on completion of video.