Re: [NTG-context] Including movies in pdf files

On Sun, 2 Dec 2012, Rogers, Michael K wrote:

On Dec 2, 2012, at 1:02 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

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On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

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Hi,

I was updating the wiki entry on \externalfigures (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/externalfigure) and noticed that I cannot get ConTeXt to include a movie.

[...] So, does ConTeXt support including movies in pdf files, and if so, can someone provide a minimal working example.

It appears to be a viewer issue.

\pdfcompresslevel=0 \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext \externalfigure[clip.mov][height=2cm, width=2cm, preview=yes] \stoptext

The pdf file has

<< /Type /Annot /A << /ShowControls true >> /Subtype /Movie /T (movie clip.mov) /Border [ 0 0 0 ] /Movie << /Poster true /Aspect [ 56.692913385827 56.692913385827 ] /F (clip.mov) >> /Rect [70.867 657.6468 127.5599 714.3397]

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so, ConTeXt appears to be including the right annotation, but the viewer (acroread) is not rendering the movie.

Your example works on my Mac with Adobe Reader 10.1.4, with one of my own .mov files substituted. The pdf code is the same, except with a different filename.

Thanks for checking. This means that it is a viewer issue on Linux :-( Aditya