Roku Developer Program

[EnTerr]

"Blackhawk" wrote:
 Like this?

That's fine. I would have gone even simpler. Should build from simpler to more complicated, never start with the complicated first - since troubleshooting won't be a beach. And the simplest way to do it is 3 calls:

RAF = Roku_Ads()
adPods = RAF.getAds()
is_finished_ok = RAF.showAds(adPods)

That's it and... - like Alton Brown said - "walk away - just walk away!"
That's good enough and should work, should be able to see an ad play (it will be a sample clip).
What it does is (a) get RAF library instance, (b) ask for an ad and (c) show the ad.

The rest of Nielsen gallimaufry are just "improvements" on the basics for better targeting by advertisers - mind you if using that you actually need to know what to set in these (i can't be of help). But like most things - first learn to walk, then to run.

[Blackhawk]

I changed the feed code this

Library "Roku_Ads.brs"

Function CreateLiveFeed() as integer

 'AA for base video, ad and Nielsen configuration.

 'For additional information please see official RAF documentation.

 videoContent = { 

 streamFormat : "hls",

 'Lengthy (17 min.) TED talk to allow time for testing ad pods

 stream: {

 url: "https://livestream.com/accounts/16944724/DetroitAutoShow.hls",

 bitrate: 800,

 quality: false

 }

 }

 PlayContentWithFullRAFIntegration(videoContent)

 

End Function

　

'A full RAF integration Example:

' - Include RAF.

' - setAdURL to set the ad URL.

' - Examples of RAF MACROS being passed in the ad call.

' - getAds() for VAST parsing.

' - showAds for rendering.

' - Enable Nielsen.

' - Pass all parameters to Nielsen beacons with examples of genre, program id and content.

'@param videoContent [AA] object that has valid data for playing video with roVideoScreen.

Sub PlayContentWithFullRAFIntegration(videoContent as Object)

 'Main facade creation.

 canvas = CreateObject("roImageCanvas")

 canvas.SetLayer(1, {color: "#000000"})

 canvas.SetLayer(2, {text: "Loading..."})

 canvas.Show()

 RAF = Roku_Ads()'RAF initialize

 print "Roku_Ads library version: " + RAF.getLibVersion()

 RAF.setDebugOutput(true) 'for debug pupropse

 'RAF content params

 RAF.setContentId(videoContent.contentId)

 RAF.SetContentGenre(videoContent.contentGenre)

 'Indicates whether the default Roku backfill ad service URL 

 'should be used in case the client-configured URL fails (2 retries)

 'to return any renderable ads.

 RAF.setAdPrefs(true, 2)

 adPods = RAF.getAds()

 is_finished_ok = RAF.showAds(adPods)

 curPos = 0

 if playContent

 videoScreen = PlayVideoContent(videoContent)

 end if

 closingContentScreen = false

 contentDone = false

 while playContent 

 videoMsg = wait(0, videoScreen.GetMessagePort())

 if type(videoMsg) = "roVideoScreenEvent"

 if videoMsg.isStreamStarted()

 canvas.ClearLayer(2)

 end if

 if videoMsg.isPlaybackPosition()

 'cache current playback position for resume after midroll ads

 curPos = videoMsg.GetIndex()

 end if

 if not closingContentScreen 'don't check for any more ads while waiting for screen close

 if videoMsg.isScreenClosed() 'roVideoScreen sends this message last for all exit conditions

 playContent = false

 else if videoMsg.isFullResult()

 contentDone = true 'don't want to resume playback after postroll ads

 end if

 'check for midroll/postroll ad pods

 adPods = RAF.getAds(videoMsg)

 if adPods <> invalid and adPods.Count() > 0

 'must completely close content screen before showing ads

 'for some Roku platforms (e.g., RokuTV), calling Close() will not synchronously

 'close the media player and may prevent a new media player from being created

 'until the screen is fully closed (app has received the isScreenClosed() event)

 videoScreen.Close()

 closingContentScreen = true

 end if

 else if videoMsg.isScreenClosed()

 closingContentScreen = false 'now safe to render ads

 end if 'closingContentScreen

 if not closingContentScreen and adPods <> invalid and adPods.Count() > 0

 'now safe to render midroll/postroll ads

 playContent = RAF.showAds(adPods)

 playContent = playContent and not contentDone

 if playContent

 'resume video playback after midroll ads

 videoContent.PlayStart = curPos

 videoScreen = PlayVideoContent(videoContent)

 end if

 end if '!closingContentScreen

 end if 'roVideoScreenEvent

 end while

 if type(videoScreen) = "roVideoScreen" then videoScreen.Close()

End Sub

'Creation and configuration of video screen.

'@param content [AA] object that has valid data for playing video with roVideoScreen

'@returns [roVideoScreen] video screen object

Function PlayVideoContent(content as Object) as Object

 ' roVideoScreen just closes if you try to resume or seek after ad playback,

 ' so just create a new instance of the screen...

 videoScreen = CreateObject("roVideoScreen")

 videoScreen.SetContent(content)

 ' need a reasonable notification period set if midroll/postroll ads are to be

 ' rendered at an appropriate time

 videoScreen.SetPositionNotificationPeriod(1)

 videoScreen.SetMessagePort(CreateObject("roMessagePort"))

 videoScreen.Show()

 return videoScreen

End Function

Theres another error
Type Mismatch. (runtime error &h18) in roku_ads_lib:/Roku_Ads.brs(3608)
3608: ??
Backtrace:
#3  Function roku_ads_configurecontentid(id_ As String) As Void
   file/line: roku_ads_lib:/Roku_Ads.brs(3609)
#2  Function playcontentwithfullrafintegration(videocontent As Object) As Void
   file/line: pkg:/source/LiveFeed.brs(46)
#1  Function createlivefeed() As Integer
   file/line: pkg:/source/LiveFeed.brs(19)
#0  Function main() As Void
   file/line: pkg:/source/main.brs(20)

[renojim]

Get rid of all the RAF.setXXX lines. You have no contentId and no contentGenre defined anywhere and the other calls are equally unnecessary.

-JT

[Blackhawk]

I had modified the code to play more than one video (not at the same time)

Library "Roku_Ads.brs"

Function CreateLiveFeed() as integer

 'AA for base video, ad and Nielsen configuration.

 'For additional information please see official RAF documentation.

 videoContent = { 

 streamFormat : "mp4",

 'Lengthy (17 min.) TED talk to allow time for testing ad pods

 stream: {

 url: "https://archive.org/download/MuhammadAliVsSonnyListon/MuhammadAliVsSonnyListon_512kb.mp4",

 bitrate: 800,

 quality: false

 }

 streamFormat : "hls",

 'Lengthy (17 min.) TED talk to allow time for testing ad pods

 stream: {

 url: "https://livestream.com/accounts/16944724/events/6910212/videos/147348826",

 bitrate: 800,

 quality: false

 }

 }

　

　

 PlayContentWithFullRAFIntegration(videoContent)

　

 

End Function

Yet there's an error

Current Function:
027:      adPods = RAF.getAds()
028:    is_finished_ok = RAF.showAds(adPods)
029:
030:      curPos = 0
031:    videoScreen = PlayVideoContent(videoContent)
032:
033:      closingContentScreen = false
034:      contentDone = false
035:*     while playContent
036:          videoMsg = wait(0, videoScreen.GetMessagePort())
037:          if type(videoMsg) = "roVideoScreenEvent"
038:              if videoMsg.isStreamStarted()
039:                  canvas.ClearLayer(2)
Use of uninitialized variable. (runtime error &he9) in pkg:/source/Functions.brs
(35)
035:     while playContent
Backtrace:
#2  Function playcontentwithfullrafintegration(videocontent As Object) As Void
   file/line: pkg:/source/Functions.brs(35)
#1  Function createlivefeed() As Integer
   file/line: pkg:/source/LiveFeed.brs(26)
#0  Function main() As Void
   file/line: pkg:/source/main.brs(21)

[renojim]

The error is telling you that the variable 'playContent' is never initialized.