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Adtonomy MP4 Prerolls

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Posted: Wed, 2010-03-10 10:33 Jan S.
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Hello!
I'm trying to implement prerolls with the adtonomy plugin.
My prerolls are MP4 files which work perfectly alone with the jwplayer. When i try to implement them as preroll in the adtonomy_config.xml they just get passed and the main movie starts to play. My main movie is a flv file while the ads are mp4 files. I've set the mimetype correctly to video/mp4 and have also tried the standard video/x-flv and the not existent video/x-mp4 with the same result. FLV files are working well with the adtonomy plugin...

My XML for the ad looks like this:
<ad id="MyAd" type="video" title="Ad" description="Description for Ad">
<ad_video length="0:20" url="myad.mp4" type="video/mp4" scalable="true"/>
<destination url="http://www.your-site-here.net/trackers/?clickthrough"/>
</ad>

Anyone expected the same problem or knows whats wrong here ?

Posted: Wed, 2010-03-10 14:28 Ethan LongTail  
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Can you provide a link to where you are running this?

Posted: Thu, 2010-03-11 05:13 Jan S.  
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Problem occurs in Firefox 3.6 Windows and Solaris, havent tested other browsers or systems yet...

http://eatsmarter.de/mp4test/AdtonomyMP4.html

Posted: Thu, 2010-03-11 13:17 Ethan LongTail  
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Hi Jan,

In your config, try to set the type to just video, not video/mp4.

Best,
-Ethan

Posted: Fri, 2010-03-12 08:40 Jan S.  
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I forgot to mention that I've already tried this.
I've done it on the testpage again but as expected there is no difference.

Posted: Wed, 2010-03-17 09:38 Cameron LongTail  
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Hi Jan,

Unfortunately it looks like this is a limitation of the Flash component we use to play videos within Adtonomy. The component specifically looks for the .flv extension.

Despite this though, the component does actually support playback of mp4s. The workaround in this case is to actually add ".flv" to the end of your mp4 file. Once you do this Adtonomy should play your videos without a problem.

Thanks.

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