I'd like to set up a small player with playlist in the sidebar of my site and I'd like to have an auto-play, sound-off ad play when the page loads but I don't want a video to load and play behind that. Is it possible to have the ad auto-play and the video click to play?
No, you must define a video in the file: ’’ parameter. Your best option would be to point to a half-second long, blank MP4. Your ads will play, but the end user will never detect that there was a short blip between ads.
@brian
Do you want the video Ad to auto-play once, and only once, before the playlist becomes active, or do you want the Ad to play once before any and all playlist items (when they are first clicked), and then paused, before the playlist item is clicked again to play?
James
Yes, I want the ad to auto-play once on pageload before the playlist is active. When it stops, a click-to-play video from the playlist is ready but doesn't auto-play.
If the video is clicked, I don't need a pre-roll ad to play in front of that.
In this case, your best route would be to put together an Ads only player setup, with autostart=true, which also has the Ad Completion (and Ad Error) events bound which then re-setup the player with just the playlist - no Ads and no autostart.
Let me know if you need help in doing this.
James
I've created an example (build with Tatami) to show how this is possible:
http://dev.powered-by-haiku.co.uk/solutions/tatami/examples/ad-fronted-playlist.htm
James
