Re: movies in a beamer (latex) presentation and linux (movie15)

[Sjoerd Hardeman <sjoerd@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl>]

Micha Feigin schreef:
> On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 16:48:55 +0530 (IST)
> Girish Kulkarni <girish@hri.res.in> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Micha Feigin wrote:
> > > I tried to use the package movie15 to include a movie in a beamer
> > > presentation (latex via lyx) which worked great under windows but
> > > doesn't work under linux.
> > Maybe this is an issue with your PDF viewer?  Have you tried
> > appropriately recent versions of Acrobat Reader on Linux?
>
> The latest acrobat on linux (9.1.something) mplayer and vls installed, no error
> message from acrobat, it just shows the image instead of playing the movie.
> After some googling it seems that this package doesn't work with linux, but I
> would be happy to learn otherwise or whether there is a different method for
> including a video in the presentation

Check this link:
http://osdir.com/ml/tex.latex.beamer.general/2007-06/msg00063.html

it claims that this method does work under linux. However, the movie 
must proably be shipped seperatley (ie. is not embedded in the pdf)

Sjoerd

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