Identifying whether advertising is enabled and getting time offsets and durations

Requests

A client application must check whether ads are enabled for channels, events, and content (including catch-up and recorded events) so it can insert ads at the appropriate points.

To do this, it must check the values of the following fields:

• csaiEnabled indicates whether ads are enabled.

• csaiAdCueTimes contains the time offsets and durations of the ads (not applicable for channels).

See the following pages for details of how to retrieve channels, events, catch-up, recordings, and VOD content:

Live

• Channels – Retrieving channel lists

• Events – Retrieving events for an EPG window – advanced queries
  Note that in MDS, events are referred to as programmes in MDS.

Catch-up

• Retrieving catch-up content – predefined queries

Recordings

• Events – Retrieve event recordings and requests

• Series – Retrieve series recordings and requests

VOD content

• Retrieve content information

See also

• Metadata Server (MDS) API Documentation

• Content Discovery Facade API documentation

• NPVR User Recordings API documentation v2