Bunny Stream - VAST

[rose sierra]

The Vast functionality on bunny stream that allows to show ads in video are not manageable from API.

A use case:
Let’s say I have a tube site, and I want to remove the ADS from videos if a user is a premium member, I can’t do that because there is no API to disable the VAST.

Would be cool to have that 🙂

[leaden marsh]

Hey, I've opened a internal feature request and I'll see what I can do internally. Would a query string parameter to manage this be okay? @rose sierra I was thinking maybe ?ads=false

[rose sierra]

Would be awesome 👏 , so that premium users could see no ads

[north stone]

What would stop your non-premium users from adding the query string and not receiving ads?

[leaden marsh]

I mean, it is hard to implement a way to disable it for users and keep it enabled without the above being an issue. Generally I would tie it to a cookie or use two libraries and dynamically render the URL depending on what's happening.

Or use a custom player and do it that way.

[hazy snow]

Would be good to have the new parameter in the Embed view token config perhaps, to prevent users modifying it?

[leaden marsh]

Was debating this internally since currently you can modify query string parameters since we don't include that in the hash itself. Will see what I can do.

[hazy snow]

You know, if we're dreaming, it would be good to have any of the parameters in the hash and then have a new parameter for the permitted bitrates. Would allow a "if free user then include ads and limit to 720p, but if premium user then disable ads and allow 1080/4k playback" kind of scenario, without the user being able to edit the parameters and/or needing two different stream libraries.

[rose sierra]

@leaden marsh hey sunil any update for this?

[leaden marsh]

I don't have any to provide yet, the query string idea is the easiest way to implement it I suppose, but advanced users could make a plugin to rewrite embed urls to include this query string.