On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Scott Kostyshak <[email protected]> wrote: >> In theory, yes (look at chapter 14 of Beamer documentation). In practice, I >> was never able to get it to work. I think it is a more an issue with pdf >> readers on linux than with beamer itself. In other words, a >> beamer-on-Debian-produced pdf file run on a windows/mac installation of >> acrobat reader (or other pdf viewer) might work (I haven't tried). >> But in my experience, linux-produced and linux-consumed beamer presentations >> with video do not work. >> YMMV, > > I've experienced the same thing as Stefano on Ubuntu. Even using the > Linux version of Adobe Acrobat did not work. My last try was a couple > of years ago though so it's possible the newest version has improved > in this aspect. > Hmm, is it possible to simply link to a video file and have a PDF viewer that opens the file with an external video player? That would be good enough for many cases.
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