Inserting video after clicking nonlinear ad

So now what i do is just playing the stream i get back from the overlay click. But i get the feeeliung this is not good bec i dont get any click overlay or "this advertisement runs for x seconds".

Hi,

Yeh, this is one of the really hidden things in the framework.

The key thing to note is that you need to make a different call to pass in the timing events. The call has to tell the framework that the video playing is actually related to an overlay rather than the streams in the stream sequence.

The following code is in the OVA for JW5 plugin:

The timing API to call when a linear ad relating to overlays are playing is "processOverlayLinearVideoAdTimeEvent" - instead of a stream index that call takes the index of the overlay in the Ad Schedule (_activeOverlayAdSlotKey in the code above).

The index of the active overlay ad slot can be grabbed out of the OverlayAdDisplayEvent that is passed when when the "overlay is clicked" listener is hit:

You also will notice in that code that there is a property "isActiveOverlayPlaying" on the VASTController. You need to set this to "true" when you load up the overlay related stream and start playing it, and then false when that stream stops playing.

Paul

Aha, so the _vastController.isActiveOverlayVideoPlaying()
does not auto go on true then i guess..
I have to manually set it to true ?
i traced this indd and it stays false; i could not find in your code where you set it to true...
Ok, so basicly:

i check if nonlinear ad is clicked....
then i get the slot key and set _vastController.isActiveOverlayVideoPlaying() to true....
then i play the stream and thus it will switch to overlayvideo ad render...
I wait till its done and then i set _vastController.isActiveOverlayVideoPlaying() to false again... and continue the stream i was playing ....

like this ? :)

yep - I looked at setting it automatically to "true", but the issue is that the OVA Framework doesn't actually play 'streams', so it never really know if that stream is playing, hence why it has to be set manually by the implementation loading up the overlay related stream.

Your flow is close (maybe I mis-understood one of the points) - just to be safe - it is this:

1. Check if non-linear ad clicked
2. Get the ad slot key from the OverlayAdDisplayEvent when the overlay is clicked
3. Set the VASTController.isActiveOverlayVideoPlaying to true
4. Load up the overlay linear ad stream and start playback
5. During overlay linear ad playback, in your code, switch to passing in the timing information via _vastController.processOverlayLinearVideoAdTimeEvent rather than _vastController.processTimeEvent
6. When done, set isActiveOverlayVideoPlaying to false

Paul

ait, k many thnx.
Seems pretty clear now.
Thats a big hurdle cleared up :D

thnx for the fast response.
am going to try to implement that. :)

cool framework btw.

works thnx a million!