Hi Matteo,
Yes, I agree that it isn't a solution for all cases, but it is convenient for
some use-cases. In my case I often have an animation which is a "small" set of
plots, say 20-30, in which case this is a good solution. For a two minutes movie
it is of course pretty much useless.
I wasn't aware that \movie would work in Okular, thanks for the tip! I'll
perhaps try
that next time. My problem is usually that I have to give the presentation on a
Windows machine which usually is lacking codecs.
Finally, I absolutely agree that knowledge on how to best do animations/movies
with
latex/beamer/prosper is needed for a large part of us Linux guys! :)
Cheers,
Yngve
On Tuesday 03 May 2011 14.27.50 Matteo Semplice wrote:
> I had troubles with that in past, so I was looking for alternatives...
>
> Anyway you are (partially) right.
> Including .mpg or .mp4 with \movie from the multimedia package produces
> a PDF file that okular can play back correctly.
>
> acroread (9.4.2 from debian-multimedia) however cannot handle it,
> complaining that "it is not a supported file type. Would you like to
> choose a replacement file?"
>
> So it's solved for me since I can use okular, but I guess we could all
> benefit from knowledge of what file formats acroread can play back.
>
> Matteo
>
> On 03/05/2011 13:33, James U wrote:
> > 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
> >>>>
> >
> >
>
>
>
