CAF receiver app

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Hi, I am implementing the CAF receiver app. I got pre-roll ads set in bitmovin player config
{key: BITMOVIN_ENV,
analytics: {
videoId: playback_id,
customData1: xxx
},
ui: false,
playback: {
autoplay: true,
},
advertising: {
adBreaks,
},
cast: {
enable: true,
},
remotecontrol: {
type: ‘googlecast’,
receiverVersion: ‘v3’,
receiverApplicationId: APPID
}}

However I encountered some issue is, the chromecast is actually working fine. just after I click the cast button, the video plays on TV however pre-rolls only played on my phone. After the pre-roll ads finished, the video played on TV is reset and it plays from the beginning again. Is there any setting I can make the pre-roll ads play on TV as well? or it is some functionality I need to implement on the CAF receiver app? Thanks in advance!

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Hi @jialin.yang , welcome to Bitmovin community. Bitmovin player SDKs do not support Ads + Casting use case out-of-the-box. The expected behaviour of player is to not play Ad on sender device when connected to casting receiver. The default receiver will only play main content.

If you wish to playback Ad on cast receiver, it should possible to implement this in a custom CAF receiver application. You can forward the Ad config/tag information from sender to receiver using Bitmovin config and then read the same in CAF received LOAD request. You can find more information about sending custom data in Send custom metadata on a custom Chromecast receiver - #2 by lucky.goyal

Then you can use the Ad config/tag to configure Ads directly in receiver code.

Please let me know if you have more questions.