Hi, I somehow completely fail to embed successfully a movie into a pdf. I tried to test-view http://www/pragma-ade.com/general/uptodate/up-003-s.pdf but this failed with: "texwork.mov" cannot be found. Would you like to choose a replacement file? Then I tried \externalfigure[elf-iso.avi][height=\textheight, width=\textheight, preview=no, repeat=yes] The problem I have is that I have neither a working AVI file (the one I created with mencoder doesn't work with Quicktime or Windows Media Player due to the codec used) nor a .mov file. Windows Media player is able to play a MPEG file with the extention .avi, but Acrobat doesn't like it :-( Moreover Acrobat Reader is not able to create useful error message :-( Thus: Is it in principle possible to embed *.mpg files? This would save me a lot of work. (Somehow I failed to do so when modifying core-fig.tex) Otherwise, what is the best way to proceed? Tobias PS: Rdesktop is a nice way to access Windows from Linux :-) but Adobe could support movies in PDFs under Linux :-(
Are you using windows to display? I never got that to work, but Mac works fine... Besides, movies are not embedded (at the moment), so you need to have the movie file next to your pdf for display, and use 8.3 names, just to be on the safe side. Maarten On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 09:00 PM, Tobias Burnus wrote:
I somehow completely fail to embed successfully a movie into a pdf.
I tried to test-view http://www/pragma-ade.com/general/uptodate/up-003-s.pdf but this failed with: "texwork.mov" cannot be found. Would you like to choose a replacement file?
Hi, On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Maarten Sneep wrote:
Are you using windows to display? Yes (or more exactly: I access using rdesktop a Windows 2003 server from Linux).
I never got that to work, but Mac works fine... Hmm, I will try tomorrow. The PDF should run on a Mac at the end anyway.
Besides, movies are not embedded (at the moment), so you need to have the movie file next to your pdf for display, and use 8.3 names, just to be on the safe side. Well, I know that the movie _files_ are not embedded, but I used it - a bit unprecise - to note the fact that the movies are shown/displayed in
Have you tried .avi's or .mpg's, or only Quicktime .mov's? the document (and not by - let's say - starting a external program). Tobias
On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 09:35 PM, Tobias Burnus wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Maarten Sneep wrote:
Are you using windows to display? Yes (or more exactly: I access using rdesktop a Windows 2003 server from Linux).
I found out at the wrong moment: I had made this nice presentation, works nicely on my Mac, but the final presentation machine was a Win XP machine...
I never got that to work, but Mac works fine... Hmm, I will try tomorrow. The PDF should run on a Mac at the end anyway.
Have you tried .avi's or .mpg's, or only Quicktime .mov's?
Both avi and mov.
Besides, movies are not embedded (at the moment), so you need to have the movie file next to your pdf for display, and use 8.3 names, just to be on the safe side. Well, I know that the movie _files_ are not embedded, but I used it - a bit unprecise - to note the fact that the movies are shown/displayed in the document (and not by - let's say - starting a external program).
The new pdf 1.5 format will embed (or at least has the possibility to embed) the files themselves, that's why I was a bit -ahem- annoying.
At 21:10 16/06/2003 +0200, Maarten Sneep wrote:
Are you using windows to display? I never got that to work, but Mac works fine... Besides, movies are not embedded (at the moment), so you need to have the movie file next to your pdf for display, and use 8.3 names, just to be on the safe side.
this is strange, mov and avi should both work on windows (since i implemented them on windows); however, sometimes an quicktime or media player update messes up the system acro 6 + pdf 1.5 will provide more multi media; i'll look into that later Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dnia Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:00:48PM +0200, Pan(i) Hans Hagen był(a) łaskaw(a) napisać:
At 21:10 16/06/2003 +0200, Maarten Sneep wrote:
Are you using windows to display? I never got that to work, but Mac works fine... Besides, movies are not embedded (at the moment), so you need to have the movie file next to your pdf for display, and use 8.3 names, just to be on the safe side.
this is strange, mov and avi should both work on windows (since i implemented them on windows); however, sometimes an quicktime or media player update messes up the system
acro 6 + pdf 1.5 will provide more multi media; i'll look into that later
Hans
They (avi and mov) do work both and on both windows and linux (didn't try on Mac). I made a presentation with lots of avis in it about a year ago with ConTeXt and it works fine. Have you got the right codecs installed on your system? Piotr -- Piotr Kopszak, Ph.D. Polish Art Gallery, National Museum in Warsaw -----------------------------> http://kopszak.mnw.art.pl/
On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 11:43 AM, Piotr Kopszak wrote:
Dnia Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:00:48PM +0200, Pan(i) Hans Hagen był(a) łaskaw(a) napisać:
At 21:10 16/06/2003 +0200, Maarten Sneep wrote:
Are you using windows to display? I never got that to work, but Mac works fine... Besides, movies are not embedded (at the moment), so you need to have the movie file next to your pdf for display, and use 8.3 names, just to be on the safe side.
this is strange, mov and avi should both work on windows (since i implemented them on windows); however, sometimes an quicktime or media player update messes up the system
They (avi and mov) do work both and on both windows and linux (didn't try on Mac). I made a presentation with lots of avis in it about a year ago with ConTeXt and it works fine. Have you got the right codecs installed on your system?
Just to be sure that was the case I installed QuickTime the day before my presentation. And the movies play just fine in the QuickTime player (stand alone). When I open the pdf and reach the page with the movie, I get a Open file dialog, asking me to select the movie. When I select the movie, Acrobat tells me it is not a movie... And to anticipate these problems, I had made two different pdf-files (one with the avi and another with the mov linked in). I normally don't use Windows, and I leave the maintenance of those machines to others. Regards, Maarten
At 12:10 17/06/2003 +0200, you wrote:
Just to be sure that was the case I installed QuickTime the day before my presentation. And the movies play just fine in the QuickTime player (stand alone). When I open the pdf and reach the page with the movie, I get a Open file dialog, asking me to select the movie. When I select the movie, Acrobat tells me it is not a movie... And to anticipate these problems, I had made two different pdf-files (one with the avi and another with the mov linked in).
I normally don't use Windows, and I leave the maintenance of those machines to others.
you need the movie plug in, actually installing the full quicktime sometines spoils the movie plugin setup Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hi, On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Piotr Kopszak wrote:
They (avi and mov) do work both and on both windows and linux (didn't try on Mac). What do you mean by "work on Linux"? Are you able to show the movies under Linux? (This would be great!) Or have you only created the movies under Linux.
I made a presentation with lots of avis in it about a year ago with ConTeXt and it works fine. Have you got the right codecs installed on your system? Hmm, probably I haven't the right codecs.
I tried now another one (I'm not really a movie expert) and it seems to work (using: mencoder -noautosub -nosound -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg1video -ovc lavc -o output.avi elf-iso.avi) I encountered now this problem with this test file: \starttext \externalfigure[output.avi][height=2em, width=2em, preview=yes, repeat=yes] \stoptext a) Using ConTeXt ver: 2003.1.31 fmt: 2003.4.30 Works ok (I think, using rdesktop I can only see the preview, I don't know whether the playing works). b) Using ConTeXt ver: 2003.4.29 fmt: 2003.6.17: systems : begin file test at line 1 ) ! Incomplete \ifx; all text was ignored after line 6. <inserted text> \fi <*> &cont-en test.tex ? Tobias
Dnia Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 12:35:54PM +0200, Pan(i) Tobias Burnus był(a) łaskaw(a) napisać:
Hi,
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Piotr Kopszak wrote:
They (avi and mov) do work both and on both windows and linux (didn't try on Mac). What do you mean by "work on Linux"? Are you able to show the movies under Linux? (This would be great!) Or have you only created the movies under Linux.
Well, not with Acrobat Reader to be sure. Derek Noonburg was so kind to send me a patch for xpdf which allows playing movies with help of any external program. I don't know if this feature was included in the mainstream version. I also created movies under linux, but this was not too easy a year ago. I tried to use various tools but exporting version of xanim was most useful. Now things are (probably) better. Piotr
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