Local Syncing

Two advert plugins, on different project screens, can be synchronized so that they play the same adverts when switching between those project screens.

• When a visible ad plugin has syncing is enabled, it broadcasts (via an internal message) the advert it changes to.
• Other non-visible ad plugins, that use the same feed, remember this advert.
• When they become visible, they will start playing that advert.
• Syncing is enabled in the advert plugin's confing file.
• E.g. sync="%%Adverts.Sync%%"
• Where you override the Adverts.Sync variable to = true.

• Limitations:

  • The synced item does NOT set the position in the media item.
  • I.e. of item A is half-way through in full screen, it restarts from the beginning in the banner.
  • Local syncing is currently designed to sync visible plugins with non-visible ones.
  • I.e. if you have multiple visible plugins using the same feed, they will all be sending the sync message, but they won't be recieving them (only non-visible receive) so won't sync with each other. Which may or may not be an issue.
  • Doohad has the same feed with different types.
  • Full/banner plugins would be set to use the “ad-loop”, “ad-banner”
  • It’s up to user to make sure there’s a banner for every full, so the indexes match.