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archanagwda's avatar
archanagwda
Reel Rookie
6 years ago

Excessive video buffering detected, canceling ad play

Hi, 

I am trying to play ads in my code, I am not able to play the ads. Getting this following error:
showVideoAd(): excessive video buffering detected, canceling ad play

This is the Ad URL: 
https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad ... &is_lat=1& correlator=9924


Please let me know how can I fix this. I tried with stream tester too.
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5 Replies

  • archanagwda's avatar
    archanagwda
    Reel Rookie
    6 years ago
    I am still getting this error. I tried with sample RAF code provided by roku, still throwing same error, We struct in between because of this error. Any updates on this error? 
  • NB_'s avatar
    NB_
    Roku Guru
    6 years ago
    Hi archanagwda -
    not to worry, this just means that it takes excessive time to buffer the video - more than 15 secs or more than the whole clip length is, and to protect user experience, RAF cancels the play for that ad. This is a rare event in production apps and in investigation has always turned out to be either
    a) bad CDN (i.e. slow hosting of mp4) or
    b) no low-bandwidth creatives in the ad (in VAST, multiple versions of the video are provided, so that the player can choose quality based on the network conditions)

    your specific case might be that you are trying to play US-only ads from abroad (common for off-shore developers) and US ads servers are not configured to server fast worldwide. You could however host locally VAST files and change media URLs to point to local web server, that way issue won't happen during dev/QA
    • MuviDev's avatar
      MuviDev
      Binge Watcher
      2 years ago

      Happens to me in dev mode when i come back and play the video , the first time it is ok. What to do ? WE have other apps like Android , iOS , it is playing fine there