Recommend banner ad sizes VideoPlayer SDK example?

Archived
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Doesn’t say in the SDK what size the Banner Ad HD and SD in the VideoPlayer SDK Sample should be.

I am thinking about using it as a sort of “news” section to update people on what’s new with the channel as well as a way of advertising.

Is it possible to script this to be either rotating or random? Any recommendations on tips on where to learn how to do that?

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See SetAdURL on the IfPosterScreen page

SetAdURL(sdAdURL as String, hdAdURL as String) as Void

Set the URL of the banner ad image to be displayed on the poster screen. This is currently only valid for the “arced-landscape” and “flat-category” style of poster screens. Banner ad sizes are as follows:

Banner Ad HD = 728x90 Banner Ad SD = 540x60

  • Joel
3

Thank you Joel.

4

Turns out I am more lost than I thought.

I tried just uncommenting the following in the category.xml file

 <!-- banner_ad sd_img="http://fanboitv.dynu.com/fanboitv/images/banner.gif" hd_img="http://fanboitv.dynu.com/fanboitv/images/banner_hd.gif"-->

Making it look like this…

 <banner_ad sd_img="http://fanboitv.dynu.com/fanboitv/images/banner.gif" hd_img="http://fanboitv.dynu.com/fanboitv/images/banner_hd.gif">

That broke the application.

Then I realized that you were telling me I needed to add some code to one of the .brs files. So I started opening them and looking for something containing “setAd” and I found this code…


    screen.setAdDisplayMode("scale-to-fit")

in the rsHomeScreen.brs file.

Problem is that I have zero clue how to modify the code you gave me to work here.

The code surrounding the above code looks like this…

'******************************************************
'** Perform any startup/initialization stuff prior to 
'** initially showing the screen.  
'******************************************************
Function preShowHomeScreen(breadA=invalid, breadB=invalid) As Object

    if validateParam(breadA, "roString", "preShowHomeScreen", true) = false return -1
    if validateParam(breadA, "roString", "preShowHomeScreen", true) = false return -1

    port=CreateObject("roMessagePort")
    screen = CreateObject("roPosterScreen")
    screen.SetMessagePort(port)
    if breadA<>invalid and breadB<>invalid then
        screen.SetBreadcrumbText(breadA, breadB)
    end if

    screen.SetListStyle("flat-category")
    screen.setAdDisplayMode("scale-to-fit")
    return screen

End Function

So what do I do now?