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VPAIDHTML5Client

About

JS iframe wrapper for VPAID.

VPAID or Video Player Ad-Serving Interface Definition, establishes a common interface between video players and ad units, enabling a rich interactive in-stream ad experience.

The goals of VPAIDHTML5Client are:

• common interface for VPAID in different technologies HTML5 and FLASH.
• handle how to load the VPAID adUnit
• be a simple and "stupid" implementation of VPAID

check videosjs-vast-vpaid if you need VPAID in videojs

JS

The project uses:

• gulpjs to compile.

TODO

• test how will work with a real ad in the demo and test
• try to use the slot element inside the iframe to see if the ad's will not mess the css of the page
• validate better if the postmessage and iframe works across browsers

Running the project

• install nodejs and gulp
• npm install to install all dependencies
• gulp serve or npm start to start build script and a demo page should be open in default browser
• gulp to watch, bundle and run tests
• npm test or gulp test:ci task used by the server
• gulp deploy:demo task used to update githubpage with demo and bin

Example of the usage

 
var vpaid = new VPAIDHTML5Client(el, video, {});
vpaid.loadAdUnit('vpaidAdURL.js', onLoad);
 
function onLoad(err, adUnit) {
    if (err) return;
 
    adUnit.subscribe('AdLoaded', onInit);
    adUnit.subscribe('AdStarted', onStart);
 
    adUnit.handshakeVersion('2.0', onHandShake);
 
    function onHandShake(error, result) {
        adUnit.initAd(480, 360, 'normal', -1, {AdParameters: currentAd.adParameters}, {});
    }
 
    function onInit() {
        adUnit.startAd();
    }
 
    function onStart() {
        console.log('-> AdStarted');
    }
 
}
 

License

licensed under the MIT License, Version 2.0. View the license file

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