Re: embedded movies in PDF
I've used the multimedia package in latex and the videos were viewable
using okular and acrobat.
James
On Tuesday, May 03, 2011 07:20:50 AM Matteo Semplice wrote:
> It does, up to a point... In the sense that in this way you give up
> compression granted by video files and get huge PDFs by storing all
> frames individually, even if the frames do not differ much.
>
> Part of the question was: googling seems to indicate that embedded
movie
> playback works using acrobat reader under other OSs (plural!) and I
was
> wondering wether it could be made to work under linux as well.
>
> Matteo
>
> On 29/04/2011 08:12, Yngve Inntjore Levinsen wrote:
> > 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.p
> >> df>.
> >>
> >> (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
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