Questions tagged [vast]

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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Which video player is embedable in a swf and supports VAST or VPAID

We have a flash application, and we want to show our videos on the website. But we would also like to show advertisements in this video. For the advertisements we need a player that is compatible width VAST or VPAID, and that is embeddable in flash.…
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TypeError: Error #2007: Parameter child must be non-null in as3 while playing VPAID Ads in adobe player

We have VAST tags which returns VPAID Ads and we developed plugin similar to OVA using actionscript3 so that Ad should be displayed in the adobe player using our developed plugin. But everytime it gives error as TypeError: Error #2007: Parameter…
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Can we use VAST for HLS streaming? Is it possible to send m3u8 files in VAST tags

We are implementing video player with the VAST pre-roll, mid-roll, and post-roll video advertisement support. Is it possible to send m3u8 files in VAST tags? I gone through the specification of vast and vast tags examples there is no where I able…
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Sending tracking http requests

I am trying to take advantage of the tracking features supplied by vast. On each quartile I am sending an AJAX request (I have tried get, head, and post) to the url provided within VAST XML but every time I get 405'd. Thank you!
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PHP file_get_contents and VAST xml

This is what am I trying to do: download a xml VAST from a URL and save locally in a XML file, in PHP. For that I am using file_get_contents and file_put_contents. this is the script I am using:
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VAST 2.0 mid-roll and overlay implementation

We are implementing into our video player the VAST 2.0 png/jpeg banner overlay and the mid-roll video advertisement. My question is: From where the time information comes when (during the movie or series episode watching) the mid-roll video should…
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videojs vast can't run

I'm trying set up Vasts in Videojs but can't make it work! My code looks like that. What i make wrong? The player works but does not display ads.
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Can i change style of skip button in video.js with vast plugin?

i am newbie in video.js and for ads i have integrated vast-plugin, And i wanted to change the style of Skip-ads-button. Is there any way to change this button. Anyhelp will appreciated thanks in advance.
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access analytics from server side

This is the first time I ask a question here and I am so new to video field so please forgive me if my question is so dumb but I have researched a lot and the documentation is not really clear to me. We add video ads to websites' videos, I want to…
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Error in my vast xml?

I have very little experience with vast but I need to learn fast. Right now I'm writing a vast file that will do a waterfall between several vast urls. Now it's the beginning so I put only one partner tag. But when I test it in the google vast…
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how VAST Tags track referral/traffic source domain?

I'm try to understand, how vast tags, track the referral/traffic source domain ? thy use any JS code? what kind of?where is the code ? or on which url/tag in vast xml? want to know about VAST as much possible.
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FlowPlayer OVA Plugin - use XML directly

So, i usually pass the url for the VAST XML into the plugins.ova.ads.schedule[0].server.tag. Is there a way to pass the VAST XML string directly instead of a url for it? ova: { url: 'flowplayer/ova.swf', autoPlay: true, …
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