OVA Preroll For .swf Files?

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Posted: Thu, 2011-12-08 19:09 akabin

I'm curious if anyone has used OVA to serve pre-roll ads before a .swf game vs. a video. The JW Player and Flowplayer use .flv files, but I would need to break the player down and swap it out with a .swf file. Not sure if OVA can do that.

Posted: Fri, 2011-12-09 03:03 paul

Hi,

Yep - I've definitely seen it used in a case where OVA is loaded before a SWF game, the ad plays, then on completion of the ad the player is removed and the SWF game shown.

Normally it's done as a DIV over the SWF game as it's loading so the game load happens during ad playback.

There are some Javascript callbacks in OVA RC5 to make all this work.

See section 17:

http://developer.longtailvideo.com/ova/wiki/OvaReleaseNote-0.5.0-RC5

From the OVA developer site (http://developer.longtailvideo.com/ova)

It's a nice use-case and definitely works...

Paul

Posted: Fri, 2011-12-09 13:19 akabin

Hi Paul,

Thanks for the links. I'll take a look!

Posted: Fri, 2011-12-09 14:57 paul

Cool... I should also have added that there are some Javascript related examples here that may also help: