Wrapper support about videojs-vast-plugin HOT 11 CLOSED

This actually should support wrappers just fine. We use this functionality from time to time ourselves. To see an example, just plug the url http://videoads.theonion.com/vast/224.xml into our test player at http://theonion.github.io/videojs-vast-plugin/.

Have you already tried this with wrappers, and have run into issues? If so, let's us know what you're seeing, and we can certainly look into it.

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In the call to vast.client.get it is returning undefined as the value for the response in the callback. I can see that the VAST XML document is getting called. Here is an example ad tag that we are using: http://ad.doubleclick.net/pfadx/ddm.kslm/ReaderApp;sz=1x1000;pos=player;tile=1;ord=1396381165?

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I tried your wrapper XML file and it worked fine. I'm also on DFP so maybe that is the problem?

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Hey, I tried your URL, and it worked at first, but now isn't serving an XML file. Could you provide some static sample files demonstrating the problem? Because I think your DFP URL expired, perhaps.

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Well, seems to be working. It was just that the ad server (DFP) kept wanting to send me Flash ads.

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I am trying to get to work this plugin with DFP but I am still unsuccessful :-( My tag from DFP doesn't even work on test player but it works in other test players, eg. jwplayer. Should it work in video.js with videojs-vast-plugin or I am trying the impossible. I feel sorrowful. I will be grateful for any advice.

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Hey @snizemic, do you have some kind of example code somewhere? Or some kind of detail on the errors you're seeing? Without that, this is pretty difficult to diagnose.

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Hi, thanks for quick reply. Here is my tag from DFP. It works here but it does not here.

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The problem has nothing to do with wrappers, so this is the wrong ticket. I have opened up issue #33 for this.

The issue here (if you look at the network requests) is that the test player is requesting the VAST file twice, and DFP does this really fun thing where subsequent requests with the same "correlator" value lead to an empty file. So, on the second request, DFP returns an empty file, the player says "ok, well then I guess I'll just play the video".

I'm not sure why the sample player does this, as our on-site player do not, so I would recommend that for the time being, you try this out on your own, outside of the test player.

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Thanks for your time and information!

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Hello,

Regarding this reply
"The issue here (if you look at the network requests) is that the test player is requesting the VAST file twice, and DFP does this really fun thing where subsequent requests with the same "correlator" value lead to an empty file. So, on the second request, DFP returns an empty file, the player says "ok, well then I guess I'll just play the video"."

Please let me know if there is a solution to this.

According to this page: https://support.google.com/dfp_premium/answer/1068325?hl=en
"A random number, typically the timestamp of the page view, that's shared by multiple requests coming from the same page view. If you're not using the Google IMA SDK, see note below.* Correlator is used to implement competitive exclusions, including in cookieless environments."

Thank you

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