What's New? (1.0.1 Final Release Candidate)

The following versions have been issued as "release candidates".

• OVA for AS3 v1.1 RC1
• OVA for JW Player 5 v1.1 RC1 (required JW5.7 or higher)
• OVA for Flowplayer v1.1 RC1

1. Change Summary

• Ticket #442 - Changed the [embed] code to ensure that the code compiles with Flex 4.6 and runs with Flash 9.
• OVA for Flowplayer now builds against Flowplayer 3.2.10 with Flex 4.6
• Modified the build process for OVA for Flowplayer so that it is completely self-contained. The Flowplayer devkit is no longer required to build the source.
• #445 - 'player.showBusyIcon' option added to allow the "ova busy" sign to not be shown
• #446 - play() API added to OVA
• Companions "html5" option renamed to "nativeDisplay": false - default setting is "true" (backward compatibility maintained)
• "nativeDisplay":false option added to "ads" to allow an external library to be used if requested for HTML5 non-linear ad display. Default is "nativeDisplay":true - this option will override companions setting and can be used for companions as well
• VASTController.processCompanionsExternally() renamed to VASTController.processCompanionDisplayExternally()
• #448 - OVA for JW5 - "controls.anchorNonLinearToBottom" option added to allow VPAID non-linear ads to be anchored to the bottom of the display (appearing over the control bar)
• #451 - Fixed defect stopping forced impressions firing for VAST2 wrapped tags with a linear template ad
• #438 - Corrected the logic that was checking if the non-linear VPAID ad was playing or not - this was incorrectly returning false causing VPAID non-linear ads to be reinitialised
• #436 - OVA for Flowplayer - onError not firing for bad stream URLs
• Upgraded Flowplayer package to include 3.2.11 (Flash 10.1 minimum requirement although OVA still builds to a baseline of Flash 9)
• #453 - SkipAd bug fixed where pause/resume automatically displayed the skipAd button regardless of whether or not it was active via the "showAfterSeconds" option
• #452 - OVA for Flowplayer Bitrate Selection plugin now works with OVA ad clips - OVA now sets an empty bitrate array on ad clips to ensure compatibility - Bitrate select plugin "menu" option will not work until a new version of bitrateselect plugin is released
• #444 - Support added for AdTech extension event that tracks Click to Play and Auto start
• #459 - Fixed bug stopping wrapped on-demand linear ad does not play OVA for Flowplayer - the first ad was being taken on the returned template and at times, that ad may actually be a holding companion or an empty ad
• #460 - Flash content now loaded in it's own ApplicationDomain() as per the VPAID spec - was throwing an exception on SpotXChange ads
• #461 - Fixed wrapper issue that meant that a pre-roll wasn't correctly matched if a wrapper had an empty non-linear ad block as well as the linear template

2. Stopping the "OVA Busy" icon from showing

When OVA (for JW) makes an ad call, the JW Player "buffering" sign is shown. This behaviour can be stopped via the showBusyIcon configuration option as follows:

{
    "player": {
         "showBusyIcon": false
    },
    "ads": {
         ....
}

An example of this option in action can be found  here.