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prajwalshetty's avatar
prajwalshetty
Visitor
11 years ago

Showing Ad Pod Markers

Hi Everyone,

Could some one help me figure out on how to display ad markers. For example like a dot in the video player progress bar like how youtube display a green or red dot so that users know when a ad break will appear in the video playback.

And also was wondering if we can display a overlay on the roVideoscreen

Any help on the above question would be helpful.

thanks in advance

Prajwal
Roku Developer Program

6 Replies

  • TheEndless's avatar
    TheEndless
    Channel Surfer
    11 years ago
    Neither of these is possible with roVideoScreen. You can create a custom video player with roVideoPlayer and roScreen/roImageCanvas which would let you draw any kind of overlays you want, but you'd also have to implement the trick play functionality yourself (fast forward, rewind, etc.).
  • prajwalshetty's avatar
    prajwalshetty
    Visitor
    11 years ago
    Hi,

    Thanks for the reply. Sorry one more question is there any way we can show the ad markers in progress bar?

    Prajwal
  • TheEndless's avatar
    TheEndless
    Channel Surfer
    11 years ago
    "prajwalshetty" wrote:
    Hi,

    Thanks for the reply. Sorry one more question is there any way we can show the ad markers in progress bar?

    Prajwal

    Not with the roVideoScreen. As I mentioned above, the only way to do that would be to write a custom video player.
  • vjani's avatar
    vjani
    Visitor
    8 years ago
    Just have the same question but for Scenegraph Video node. Is this possible with the default UI for the Video node? Even without setting any such information, by default there are couple of dots visible on the progress bar, which I don't understand. What do they indicate?
  • tim_beynart's avatar
    tim_beynart
    Channel Surfer
    8 years ago
    The dots mean nothing. It would be fascinating to hear an explanation from Roku why they decided to add meaningless dots in an area that, according years of convention, is reserved for chapter markers.
    While it is possible to add your own shapes on top of the built-in controls by creating a new layer, it is almost impossible (I quit trying) to figure out the dimensions of the scrubber.

    In other words, build your own custom controls.
  • NB_'s avatar
    NB_
    Roku Guru
    8 years ago
    "vjani" wrote:
    Just have the same question but for Scenegraph Video node. Is this possible with the default UI for the Video node?

    There may be an unpublished API that allows that and we may be interested in sharing that with developers.
    Contact us direct for more. (Side-eye @ tim_beynart)

    Even without setting any such information, by default there are couple of dots visible on the progress bar, which I don't understand. What do they indicate?

    These are quartiles (i.e. 25%, 50%, 75%).