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Are Mid-Roll Ads possible Yet?
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Are Mid-Roll Ads possible Yet? 5 Months, 2 Weeks ago Karma: 1
Hello,

I am sorry if this is already covered somewhere else, but I have been looking for a while and have found no solution to this:

We would like to implement mid-roll (not pre or post) ads on all of our hwdvideoshare videos as soon as possible.

We currently use OpenX to serve our ads to joomla and would like to stick with it if possible? We also have an account with LongTail if needed?

I know that HwdRevenueShare has some functionality regarding this, but If I am not mistaken it only does Pre & Post Roll ads?

Basically what we need is the ability to serve mid-roll ads based on keywords or page content to all of the videos in the media center of our site (which is hwdvideoshare)

A tutorial would be AMAZING if anyone knows how to do this?

Thanks in advance for help!!!

PS. We are on the latest versions of hwd,joomla, & open x... And have both the JW player and flow player plug-in's installed.
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Re:Are Mid-Roll Ads possible Yet? 5 Months, 1 Week ago Karma: 189
Please don't duplicate posts or bump your threads.

All threads do get answered and duplicating your posts simply wastes time by having to either answer twice or check both and delete one of them.

We would like to implement mid-roll (not pre or post) ads on all of our hwdvideoshare videos as soon as possible. We also have an account with LongTail if needed?Yes, the Longtail mid roll advert solution has been working in hwdVideoShare for over a year now. Install hwdRevenueManager and check the "Longtail" tab. If you have problems, let us know.

I know that HwdRevenueShare has some functionality regarding this, but If I am not mistaken it only does Pre & Post Roll ads?No, you can run mid-roll adverts with Longtail.

We currently use OpenX to serve our ads to joomla and would like to stick with it if possible?We are also working on the OpenX/Flow player video advert plugin with the original developer. Can't give a release date, but this is in the pipeline.

A tutorial would be AMAZING if anyone knows how to do this?See:
documentation.hwdmediashare.co.uk/wiki/L...in_hwdRevenueManager

More docs will be added in the future.
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Re:Are Mid-Roll Ads possible Yet? 5 Months, 1 Week ago Karma: 1
I apologize for that I just wasn't sure if I posted in the correct thread initially.

Thanks for the information on hwdRevenueShare... It worked well and easily for us...

However, after seeing the type of ads that it was pulling we realized that it would be WAY more beneficial for us to be able to display our own text based mid-roll ads.

Therefore, after doing some research, we decided to purchase the Adtonomy Plugin for JW Player. I saw that there was one other person who had a thread about implementing it into the jw player plug-in but there was no final solution.

According to the documentation for Adtonomy, this is what I am supposed to do:

Add the Adtonomy Text Ads plugin to JW Media Player by adding adttext to the plugins parameter and supplying additional parameters for the plugin.
Here's a minimal configuration:

<script type="text/javascript"> 
var so = new SWFObject('player.swf','movieplayer','400','250','9','#ffffff'); so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true'); 
so.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always'); 
so.addVariable('file','video.flv'); 
so.addVariable('plugins','adttext'); so.addVariable('adttext.config', 'myconfig.xml'); so.write('preview');
</script>


The adttext.config variable is used to provide the configuration file for the Adtonomy Text ads plugin. You will need to provide an external configuration file to use with the adttext plugin. See below for some example configurations.

The Adtonomy Text Ads plugin supports the following global parameters. Each parameter is prefixed with adttext. for identification and uniqueness against other JW Media Player configuration parameters.

Parameter= adttext.config / Required = yes / URL to Adtonomy Text Ad=myconfig.xml

NB: All parameter names handled by the JW Media Player are converted to lower-case. Parameter names for the Adtonomy Text Ads plugin that use capital letters will not be loaded properly.

I then created the myconfig.xml file as indicated, but had no success... here is an example XML file:

<?xml version="1.0"?> <ad-program>
<ad type="overlay"> <text_ad
title="Try Adtonomy Text Ads!"
1 of 3
LongTail Video | Adtonomy Text Ads Plugin
description="Advertise with LongTail" link="http://www.longtailvideo.com" length="0:10" />
</ad>
<spot timing="0:03"></spot> </ad-program>


I tried all of that... and had no success perhaps I am missing something? TIA for helping... It's gonna be AWESOME when we can write our own mid-rolls!
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#26997
Re:Are Mid-Roll Ads possible Yet? 5 Months, 1 Week ago Karma: 1
I spoke with the guys at longtail and got slightly more information, here is what was discussed:

Me: here is the code or the part of the code I edited in the file: /httpdocs/plugins/hwdvs-videoplayer/jwflv.view.php

so_".$ui.".addVariable("width","".$getFlashVars->param_width."");
   so_".$ui.".addVariable("height","".$getFlashVars->param_height."");
   so_".$ui.".addParam("allowfullscreen", "true");
   so_".$ui.".addParam("allowscriptaccess", "always");
   so_".$ui.".addParam("quality", "high");
   so_".$ui.".addParam("wmode", "transparent");
   so_".$ui.".addParam("plugins", "adttext");
   so_".$ui.".addParam("adttext.config", "myconfig.xml");
   so_".$ui.".addParam("flashvars","".$flashvars15."");";


Longtail: theres your issue
Longtail: flashvars override addvariables
Longtail: $flashvars15
Longtail: you need to add them into the $flashvars15 variable
Me: can you explain how to do this?
Longtail: $flashvars15 is from hwd
Longtail: i dont know where it is

Hope this helps?

Thanks again
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#26999
Re:Are Mid-Roll Ads possible Yet? 5 Months, 1 Week ago Karma: 1
I DID IT

near line 136 I made it look like this:

$code.='<embed src="'.JURI::root().'plugins/hwdvs-videoplayer/jwflv/mediaplayer.swf" width="'.$getFlashVars->param_width.'" height="'.$getFlashVars- >param_height.'" allowscriptaccess="always" wmode="transparent" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="plugins=adttext&adttext.config=http://www.mysite.com/plugins/hwdvs-videoplayer/myconfig.xml&'.$flashvars15.'" />';
$code.='</div>';


Thanks anyways... hope this helps someone else!
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Last Edit: 2010/02/18 00:04 By patrickegan.
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