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.

Liviu

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