RAF and VMAP support

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I have looked at the several posted related but they did nothing to alleviate my issues.

RAF 1.4
SF version 7.0 (9021)

I have the below code:


function createVideoScreen()
  screen = CreateObject("roVideoScreen")
  screen.SetLoop(true)
  screen.SetPositionNotificationPeriod(1)
  
  return screen
end function

sub showVideoScreen(screen As Object, episode As Object)
  port = CreateObject("roMessagePort")
  episode = getStreamForEpisode(episode, webClient())
  
  playbackPosition = 0
  
  screen.SetContent(episode)
  screen.SetMessagePort(port)
  
  shouldUseRAFAdsFallback = false
  maxRetries = 2
  
  adIface = Roku_ads()
  adIface.SetAdPrefs(shouldUseRAFAdsFallback, maxRetries)
  
  adIface.setAdUrl("https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ads?sz=640x480&iu=/124319096/external/ad_rule_samples&ciu_szs=300x250&ad_rule=1&impl=s&gdfp_req=1&env=vp&output=vmap&unviewed_position_start=1&cust_params=deployment%3Ddevsite%26sample_ar%3Dpremidpost&cmsid=496&vid=short_onecue&correlator=")
  
  adPods = adIface.getAds()
  
  'Play pre-roll
  shouldPlayContent = adIface.showAds(adPods)

  if shouldPlayContent then
    screen.Show() 
  end if
  
  while shouldPlayContent
    msg = wait(0, port)

    if msg.isPlaybackPosition() then
      episode.PlayStart = msg.GetIndex()
    
      adPods = adIface.getAds(msg)
      
      if adPods <> invalid and adPods.Count() > 0
        print "Ad break hit @ " episode.PlayStart
      
        screen.Close()
        shouldPlayContent = adIface.showAds(adPods)
      
        if shouldPlayContent
          screen = createVideoScreen()
          screen.SetMessagePort(port)
          screen.SetContent(episode)
          screen.Show()
        end if
      end if
    end if
    
    if msg.isScreenClosed()
      shouldPlayContent = false
    end if
  end while
  
  screen.Close()
end sub

function getStreamForEpisode(episode As Object, client As Object) As Object
  stream = client.getUrlForContent(episode.contentId)

  episode.Stream = {
    url: stream.url,
    bitrate: 0,
    quality: false
  }
  
  episode.PlayStart = 0
  episode.StreamFormat = "hls"
  episode.adUrl = stream.vmapUrl
  
  return episode
end function

But the adpod count is 0. Works on Google IMA’s video inspector and any of the ads that aren’t a playlist work. Looking on some input on why this isn’t working and how to make it work.

In the above example I am using the google ima test ad directly.

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There’s something odd about that URL. It explicitly specifies VMAP as the output format, but it’s returning an XML playlist, instead. As far as I’m aware RAF doesn’t support playlists, so you’ll likely either need to parse the playlist yourself and pass the individual VAST URLs to RAF at the appropriate times, or figure out why you’re not getting a VMAP response back (which RAF does support).