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VAST - the Video Ad Serving Template, is an Interactive Advertising Bureau specification for inserting advertisements into Flash, HTML5 and native video players.

VAST (Video Ad Serving Template) is a specification released by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) that sets a standard for communication requirements between ad servers and video players.

It is a data structure declared using XML.

VAST has 6 versions: 1.0 (deprecated), 1.1 (deprecated),2.0, 3.0 and current version is 4.0.

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Html video player suggestions

I'm looking for Html video player that has the ability to add advertising clip or image at the begining of the video like what YouTube does. What video player do you recommend? Thanks
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Kaltura HTML5 VAST/VPAID player doesn't pass AdParameters to InitAd in CreativeData parameter

I have a Kaltura Html5 player embedded in a web page. The player is configured to use VAST/VPAID and a VAST tag is provided which returns the following:
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contentPauseRequested in Video Suite Inspector

I have a problem. I have VPAID JS creations . Here's Vast Tag
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Integrate VAST compliant video player into a windows application

We currently play videos in our windows application using Flash.ocx but we need to change to a VAST compliant solution... Can anyone make any recommendations? Thanks
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serve html5 video ads using VAST

Does anyone know if (and how) it is possible to serve HTML5 video ads using VAST (Video Ad Serving Template)? I know that flash (swf) videos are supported, but I'm not sure if I need to jump through hoops in order to wrap my HTML5 video source with…
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Preloading VPAID Flash ads - not possible/allowed? why?

With VAST complaint video ads, you may get a "nested" VAST (VAST Wrappers), which will eventually yield a MediaFile that is a media that you could preload (e.g. MP4/WebM/flv, etc.). However in the case of VPAID (flash, yuck!), which contains swf as…
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Differences between responding with dynamically created XML and XML file

So here's a problem I'm busting my head around for the past few days: I have a nodeJS app that does the following: var VAST = require('vast-xml'); var vast = new VAST(); vast.version = "2.0"; var ad=vast.attachAd({ id : 1 , structure :…
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Running an external script in a VAST tag

I have a 3rd party script (which does some data analysis in the client browser) that usually gets appended to an ad creative on a display ad. I would like to append this script to a video ad, using a VAST tag. I have read the VAST spec, and I have…
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Google IMA3 SDK, VAST on iOS - dispatching event mediaLoadTimeout

I am currently working on using Google's IMA3 SDK to show third party ads. My implementation works on browsers, but not on iOS Safari and iOS Chrome, where I get timeout error. Output from IMA3 SDK Debugging version: [Debug] [ 31.706s]…
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Playing video Ads with VAST2.0 on Cordova\Phonegap application

I'm developing Application on PhoneGap\Cordova platform, and willing to integrate MobFox video ads. I'm trying to play video-ad, when getting a VAST 2.0 XML from MobFox ad-server, But can't figure out how... Test Ad…
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Please explain one VAST 2.0 scenario

I'm trying to understand the sequence of actions the media player must execute when playing this sample VAST 2.0: http://demo.tremorvideo.com/proddev/vast/vast_wrapper_linear_1.xml. Several moments I don't understand: Ad the wrapper links on…
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VAST: Unable to request ads from server. Cause: Error #2048

I am getting error in testing VAST using passing URL of XML file but if i am trying to pass XML code than it's working fine. VAST Testing…
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Parse Text Using Delimiters

I am trying to figure out how to parse out a URL (A VAST video tag) from a field in MySQL. This field contains multiple rows that vary, but should contain the same XML code. This is the URL I am trying to parse out:…
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change vast ads dynamically with media in kaltura

I'm trying to change media and corresponding vast ads with button clicks in kaltura. I'm using the kdp.setKDPAttribute("configProxy.flashvars.vast","prerollUrl",$(this).attr('preroll')); to set the vast preroll url for the media. Mediafiles I'm…
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How to use a service returning VAST xml file - getting "Unable to request ads from server. Cause: Error #2048"

I'm using Video Suite Inspector in Google Interactive Media Ads , though the question might be general for services. when i'm using this direct url , the video is valid and is played. However, when i'm using another address that representing my…
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