Hi Matteo,
My favourite way to show embedded movies is animategraphics, which is independent of codecs etc. being installed. It does only work with acrobat though to my knowledge.
What you need then is a numbered series of png's or similar, and you then use a command like:
\usepackage{animate}
...
\animategraphics[width=0.7\textwidth,controls]{2}{./figures/ellipse/elan}{19}{57}
In this example it is showing two frames every second, from figure number 19 to 57. The pngs were called elan19.png, elan20.png and so forth.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Yngve
On Thursday 28 April 2011 22.28:00 Matteo Semplice wrote:
Hi everybody,
this must be a sort of "evergreen" question, but browsing around
never quite gets me the definitive answer...
So, if a PDF file (say generated with latex-beamer) links to a movie,
for example as explained previously on this list
<http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2007/05/msg00006.html>, xpdf and
acrobat show the movie in a separate window. This is better than
nothing, but not ideal during a presentation.
So, is there a program/library to show a PDF file with embedded movies?
It should show correctly at least one of the examples in the movie15
manual
<http://ctan.mackichan.com/macros/latex/contrib/movie15/doc/movie15.pdf>
or this one with embedded mp4
<http://pages.uoregon.edu/noeckel/computernotes/movieExample/movie.pdf>
or this other one with embedded swf
<http://pages.uoregon.edu/noeckel/computernotes/movieExample/movie-swf.pdf>.
(For the record, the beamer code for the last 2 examples are to be found
at http://pages.uoregon.edu/noeckel/PDFmovie.html)
If I open one of the above files with acroread, I get an error window
"Multimedia Player Finder" which asks me to download a plugin for
acroread and if I agree I get the web page
http://www.adobe.com/special/acrobat/nomediaplayer.html which tells me
that there are no plugins available for my system.
Is it possible to see such PDF files in Debian? Does anybody have an hint?
Best regards,
Matteo Semplice