Post Roll Advertising

I can not find links to the pre/post roll sample SWF source files that were used with the v3.12 player. And all the links to the pre/mid/post roll demos are broken or point to the longtail company. My company licensed your player in part because of the support of the pre/post roll advertisement and the sample code you provided for the swf based advertisement. Flv postrolls are not good enough, we need interactivity. Very disappointing and disturbing business practice. Does not put much confidence on how you going to treat your longtail solutions customers in a future.

Please fix the links to the v3.12 player and the swf samples for the port/preroll advs.

@Oleg: understandably, but the pre/postroll implementation was badly implemented and (for most people) quite useless. LongTail offers support for real advertisement networks, while the preroll/postroll implementation was only useful for in-house ads and required a playlist.

Note that the 3.12 player is still [url=http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_Media_Player#history]available for download[/url] though. And so is the postroll FLA file, at this location: www.jeroenwijering.com/upload/postroll_swf.zip. The 3.14 player will also feature the <album>commercial</album> tag again. No separate pre- or postroll, but just general playlist ad support.

The playlistad setup page is indeed removed, to avoid confusion.

I'm using RSS playlist, but <category>commercial</category> does not seem to work the way <category>postroll</category> use to. The player just stops when it gets to the end of the video, and does not proceed to the postroll.

@Ryan: that's true, you'll have to set "repeat=list" as well to be able to show the ad. Or you can revert to the 3.12 player, which had the previous option.

I tried repeat=list, and it does continue to the postroll. However, once the postroll stops, the play button starts the postroll again, instead of starting from the beginning of the list, as was the behavior for the postroll album or category. We are currently running 3.12, but was hoping to stay current.

Let me think this over very good for version 4.0. Problem is that we're mixing up playlists and advertisements here. They simply are not the same. I'll have to find another way to fix this...

Hello,

I have a problem to load the advertisement in the FLV player (PRE/POST AD advertising). Please provide me the step by step installation guide to fix the advertisement problem in the FLV player for my site. If anyone can help this i would appriciate the best.

Thanks
Suresh

Suresh, do you refer to the LongTail Implementation of Pre/Post ads?

Yes, Darjan but i have a own advertisement files to load in to the jeoran player. Can you say how to implement to my own advert files and continuous play my FLV video files to loads into the Jeoran FLV player? is there any additional code can i write for the advertisement files? is there any available example code for that? Please help....

Where can I get the code of the Mid-Roll Ads Sample?

I need to apply it but with videos.. something like this..

http://www.adjustables.com/index.php?page=showcases#

Raul,

Look in this thread for the Mid Roll Ads code: [url=http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?thread=7508#msg41841]MID ROLL ADS[/url]

Suresh, if you sign up with LongTail, you will be able to run your own ads.

I want to use the Post Rolls but I can´t, I use the next xml file:

<recommendations>
<recommendation>
<title>Myself - First Recommendation</title>
<image>http://192.168.1.71/Melted/thumb/11_54.jpg</image>
<link><![CDATA[javascript:loadRecommendation('Myself', 'First Recommendation', 'http://192.168.1.71/Melted/thumb/11_54.jpg')]]></link>
</recommendation>

<recommendation>
<title>Reporting screenshot from Mint</title>
<image>http://192.168.1.71/Melted/thumb/11_54.jpg</image>
<link>http://www.haveamint.com</link>
</recommendation>

</recommendations>

In my javascript file I have:

function thisMovie(movieName) {
if(navigator.appName.indexOf("Microsoft") != -1) {
return window[movieName];
} else {
return document[movieName];
}
};

function loadRecommendation(rAuthor, rTitle, rFile) {
loadFile({author:rAuthor, title:rTitle, file:rFile});
};

function loadFile(obj) {
thisMovie('mpl').loadFile(obj);
};

And the parameters of my object are:

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="533" id="mpl" height="360" wmode="transparent" data="{$baseurl}/flvideo/flvplayer.swf?file={$baseurl}/flvideo/{$vinfo[0].flvdoname}&autoStart=true&enablejs=true&javascriptid=mpl&allowScriptAccess=always&recommendations=recommendation.xml">
<param name="movie" value="{$baseurl}/flvideo/flvplayer.swf?file={$baseurl}/flvideo/{$vinfo[0].flvdoname}&logo={$baseurl}/images/logo1.png&image={$tmburl}/11_{$vinfo[0].VID}.jpg&javascriptid=mpl&enablejs=trueallowScriptAccess=always&recommendations={$baseurl}/flvideo/recommendation.xml"/>
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />
<param name="autostart" value="true" />
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" />
<param name="enablejs" value="true" />
<param name="javascriptid" value="mpl" />
<param name="id" value="mpl" />
<param name="recommendations" value="{$baseurl}/flvideo/recommendation.xml" />
<param name="FlashVars" value="file={$baseurl}/flvideo/{$vinfo[0].flvdoname}&width=533&height=360&autostart=true&showfsbutton=false&logo={$baseurl}/images/logo1.png&image={$tmburl}/11_{$vinfo[0].VID}.jpg&backcolor=0x000000&frontcolor=0xFFFFFF&screencolor=0x000000&enablejs=true&allowScriptAccess=always&recommendations={$baseurl}/flvideo/recommendation.xml&javascriptid=mpl"/>
</object>

Help me because it doesn´t work

Well, you are mixing up Adobe Flash Player parameters and JW FLV Media Player flashvars.

Specifically, two mixups are: 'recommendations' is a JW flashvar and there is no Adobe FP parameter named 'data'.

I suggest that you Google "Adobe Flash Player object embed" and you will find pages like these two: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_12701 and http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_4150

Pay careful attention to which Adobe Flash Player attributes are specified within the object tag and which are specified as parameters of the object eleent.

Then also study this page: http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Supported_Flashvars for the supported flashvars.

I don't use object/embed anymore (it's VERY obsolete now), so I might make a disastrous mistake if I tried to advise you on the details.

And... don't confuse postroll advertising with recommendations. They are very different animals, kind of like dogs and cats fish.

After studying the pages that I recommended above, you should end up with somethng similar to this (NOT guaranteed to be working code):

Your recommendation.xml and your JavaScript look OK.

I have a question, I use the midrolls but only appear the advertirsers that LongTail offer, and I want to customize that!!! They told me that this isn´t possible, but in past messages Darjan wrote that this was possible.............. then???? or what is the recommendation if I want to use my advertirsers???????

LGB, we have changed the Mid-Roll to only support XML feeds. Previously, it read any type of JS tag and you could easily customize it back and forth. However, that version has several issues so we decided to make a new one in Flash that supports XML feeds instead.

We were emailing and I told you that with the new one, you can indeed use your own advertisers as long as they support XML feeds. You told me that your current advertisers, in fact, do not support XML feeds and that is why you cannot "customize" it from your end.

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hi, i need a big favor from you.i have an application where i use jw player to play videos.i need to add pre post and mind roll videos and i need to play the mid roll video only when i replay the video.i am using a xml file as you given in the example.and i'm using the version 4.0 of the player.the problem is when i reply the video it only plays post roll video.Please explain me how can i get this working

Hi, this is Adam from LongTail. You can run ads using LongTail's AdSolution, which you can sign up for here:

http://www.longtailvideo.com/adsolution.html

As an FYI, it's illegal to run any type of ad in the media player without purchasing an enterprise license from LongTail. For more info, feel free to email me directly @ adam [a] long tail video [.] com.

thanks for the feedback.i'll go through it

I am developing an online TV channel for www.klasse.be and I'd like pre- and post-roll swf support. Not for ads, but for giving a video some context. We want to break up 10-15 minute videos in shorter segments, but still provide the broader context. Playlists are a way, but pre- and post-roll swfs could really make it more flexible.

@Toon, you should sign up for LongTail's AdSolution.

Learn more here: http://www.longtailvideo.com/adsolution

how are these ads paying, I dont understand it I use it on my site, and Im running my own 300x250 ad, however it shows someone elses most the time and then the middle roll ad is always someone elses ad. I dont understand this, it looks to me like i am just running some one else's ads earning them revenue.

@Wetard,

You can only run your own 300x250 ad as a pre-roll/post-roll, not as a mid-roll overlay. If you need more help or have further questions about your specific site, please contact us: http://www.longtailvideo.com/about/contact-us

The D-related plugin does exactly what I needed. But I could use an example skin FLA for that.

Hi Toon,

This is Ethan from LongTail here to help you.

Here is the source - http://www.longtailvideo.com/addons/documentation/54/drelated.zip

Please email me directly at ethan [at] longtailvideo [dot] com to follow up if you have any other questions, thank you.

Best Regards,
-Ethan