Can I examine the ads in an AdPod / VAST response?

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Can I examine the ads in an AdPod / VAST response?

riksagar opened this issue 2 years ago · 1 comments

From the logging in my app, I see that videojs-ima is only playing about half the ads returned in the adpods. These are adpods returned from thirdparties, in real world content playback scenarios.

I see this in our production app., based on logging of the adPodInfo when the adpod is loaded (AdEvent.Type.LOADED on the ad manager) versus the playback starts (AdEvent.Type.STARTED event).

I don't see a good way to get videojs-ima to report which ads are playable and which will be skipped. Presumably the library is doing some browser capability checks and skipping ads it deems unplayback.

I do see an occasional "There was an error playing the video ad" error logged (adPlayError events). But not enough of those to account for the discrepency.

What events can I register for to catch all the skipped/invalid ads? Alternatively, is there an event that dumps the contents of the mediaFile elements from the vast response, so I can log them?

Thanks,
Rik.

Answer 1 · 2023-04-19T14:42:29.000Z

Hello @riksagar ,

Thank you for raising this issue.

Would you be able to share an example ad VAST or VAST url that can reproduce this issue reliably? You can share it privately with jsui@google.com. This could help me determine if the ads being missed in the ad pods is in fact an error.

The videoJS-IMA plugin does not do any compatibility checks to disqualify certain ads. However, the IMA SDK itself does do this type of checks. Setting AdsRenderingSettings.mimeTypes can set what ad mimeTypes your player can play.