On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Liviu Andronic <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 7:40 PM, stefano franchi
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Liviu Andronic <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Not a PDF reader proper, more of a PDF presenter, but Impressive [1]
>>> should be able to do that. It is cross-platform, and boasts sound and
>>> video playback capabilities via MPlayer [2]. Never tried it for video
>>> playback, though, and I'd be curious to hear of any successful
>>> experience.
>>
>> Unfortunately not from me. I have exactly the same behavior as with
>> Reader and Okular, i.e. nothing at all.
>>
> Did you use Beamer's recommended method,
yes. \usepackage{multimedia} then \movie[various options]{movieclip} in ERT
>or 'movie15'?
I haven't tried this package yet
> Moreover, how
> did you install Impressive?
Through Synaptic (Ubuntu's package manager). I have Arch on my desktop
at home and will try that tomorrow.
>Are you sure that it was built with
> support for MPlayer?
No, I am not. How do I find that out? This is what I find in the
console when I launch impressive on the pdf file:
Welcome to Impressive version 0.10.2
/usr/bin/impressive:94: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is
deprecated; use hashlib instead
import random, getopt, os, types, re, codecs, tempfile, glob,
StringIO, md5, re
Detected screen size: 1280x800 pixels
OpenGL renderer: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 965GM GEM 20091221 2009Q4
Using GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two.
Note: error in file produced by pdftk, hyperlinks disabled.
PDF parser error message: referenced non-existing PDF object
Background rendering finished, used 222.7 MiB of disk space.
Total presentation time: 0:52.
Cheers,
Stefano
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