On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 February 2014 16:10:02 stefano franchi wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 6:20 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann < > > > > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > Can I start a short mp4 movie from within a beamer presentation? I use > > > > Debian. > > > > > > 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, > > > > > > S. > > > > Thanks for that, Stefano. > > So I would just leave the presentation for the time showing the movie and > switch back to the presentation afterward, I guess. > That's exactly what I ended up doing. I had a bullet saying "video" on my slide, switched to a preset VLC player, then went back to the presentation. Liviu's suggestion of using a link may be worth investigating too. S. -- __________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA [email protected] http://stefano.cleinias.org
