Hans van der Meer wrote: > That's what I had and somehow could not get working again. > you mean that you saw no movie? > I therefore did some experimenting and now I have something working: > > > In the above I first thought "StartMovie" etc would work but > "StartRendering" etc did the trick. As of the special purpose of > StartMovie and friends I am still in the dark. > \externalfigure[whatever.mov][....,label=somelabel]
\goto{start}[StartMovie{somelabel}] (i didn't test it; this is typically one of the areas where pdf specs and viewers evolve over time; what works in version 3 viewers may fail in version 5; normally i adapt that kind of stuff when i run into it / need it (with the danger of breaking oder stuff); one problem is that there is a relationship (now) betwene the page where the resource is and where it is activated [it's that kind of dependencies that has shown up]; the same for sounds: resources need to be on the same page as where they are clled (which over time made some examples fail when viewers changed their expectations). > \definerenderingwindow > [movie] > [width=1.33\makeupheight,height= > \makeupheight,strut=no,offset=0pt,frame=off, > background=color,backgroundcolor=BackgroundColor, > closepageaction=StopCurrentRendering] > > I had to remove the openpageaction from the example in the context > fle and then it stopped putting the movie on each and every page once > it had been opened. > the rendering mechanism is using the pdf 1.5/6 features i.e. separation between resource and rendering view (buggy in acrobat 6, but may be better by now) ; there is some example code in x-res-50 etc > Finally typesetting the movie with: > > \useexternalrendering[purple][video/quicktime][purpleshort.mov] > \defineoverlay > [theimage] > [{\externalfigure[themovie][width=\overlaywidth,height= > \overlayheight,type=jpg]}] > starttext > \hfill\framed[offset=0pt,strut=no,background={foreground,theimage}] > {\placerenderingwindow[movie][themovie]}\hfill\null > > As you can seen I placed the movie in a framed. This because I wanted > the still image showing over it (you mentioned a "preview=yes" I will > later experiment with it. I guess it also will work here? > not sure, but overlays are ok (since the undocumented behaviour of viewers is that the annots end up on top when activated, they have their own rendering layer (and as a side effect cannot be made invisible in pdf layers; a typical example of pdf feature creap without forseeing implicationswhich then needs to be repaired in later pdf specs/viewers) > The PROBLEM I encountered was that I thought to change the > renderingwindow's background with a local call to > \setuprenderingwindow[movie][parameters leading to the overlay as in > framed] > but to no avail. > Maybe I did something wrong here? Could it be with the naming and/or > the number of parameters in the setup? > dunno, if you send me a zip with all resources and a small test file i can have a look > Anyway, the stuff seems to work. From your answer I guess a sort of > manual is still far way. Pity. > well, it should go in the widgets manual, but only when the pdf specs is stable for this; there is some example code in the x-res files (media libraires and so) > If you can spare some further hints, if necessary, I will be grateful > as always. > > Hans > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context@ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context