Additional Playback Events (such as mute, fullscreen)

[olivier-yospace]

Hi,

The VAST Standard defines the following Player Operation Metrics (for use in Linear and NonLinear Ads):

• mute: the user activated the mute control and muted the creative.
• unmute: the user activated the mute control and unmuted the creative.
• pause: the user clicked the pause control and stopped the creative.
• resume: the user activated the resume control after the creative had been stopped or paused.
• rewind: the user activated the rewind control to access a previous point in the creative timeline.
• skip: the user activated a skip control to skip the creative.
• playerExpand: the user activated a control to extend the player to a larger size. This event replaces the fullscreen event per the 2014 Digital Video In-Stream Ad Metric Definitions.
• playerCollapse: the user activated a control to reduce player to a smaller size. This event replaces the exitFullscreen event per the 2014 Digital Video In-Stream Ad Metric Definitions.
• notUsed: This ad was not and will not be played (e.g. it was prefetched for a particular ad break but was not chosen for playback). This allows ad servers to reuse an ad earlier than otherwise would be possible due to budget/frequency capping. This is a terminal event; no other tracking events should be sent when this is used. Player support is optional and if implemented is provided on a best effort basis as it is not technically possible to fire this

I would like to make it possible for a player to report via CMCD the following events:

• mute: the user activated the mute control and muted the creative.
• unmute: the user activated the mute control and unmuted the creative.
• playerExpand: the user activated a control to extend the player to a larger size. This event replaces the fullscreen event per the 2014 Digital Video In-Stream Ad Metric Definitions.
• playerCollapse: the user activated a control to reduce player to a smaller size. This event replaces the exitFullscreen event per the 2014 Digital Video In-Stream Ad Metric Definitions.

I believe all the other events are already supported via state/playhead time.

NOTE: The notUsed event is outside of the scope of CMCD as this is a decision made by the DAI Provider.