On Oct 28, 2011, at 3:19 PM, stefano franchi wrote:

> 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

I don't have linux, but maybe this info helps: 
For the movie15 package, I have been told that linux "sort of" works, if you do 
the following:
- Use Adobe Reader 9 (latest version).
- When you first open a PDF with embedded video file in PDF the movie will only 
start if you click on the 'paper clip' attachment symbol and agree to open the 
video file. 
- As far as I understand it, the movie player then opens in a separate window. 
On Mac and Windows, it plays in the PDF itself.

If you want to try a PDF with an embedded movie, I've got one online on this 
page:
http://pages.uoregon.edu/noeckel/PDFmovie.html
(see step 3 under "Creating the files").
I'd also be interested to find out how/if these instructions are accurate or if 
it got better/worse since I last looked at linux...

Jens



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