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

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. ________________________________ This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the original message (including attachments).

On 12/02/2012 03:43 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

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

Aditya

FWIW, Adobe Acrobat Reader 11.0 installs and runs on Xubuntu 12.04 i386 (at least the normal functions run, haven't tried any of the oddball stuff). -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA

On 12/02/2012 06:29 PM, Martin Schröder wrote:

And where do you get that? It's not listed at http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=10&platform=unix

Best Martin

Note: "under wine" means running a Windows program via the WINE translation layer so it is the Windows version of Acrobat Reader, not a native Linux/BSD/Unix application. Adobe has stopped supporting Linux/BSD/Unix as of Reader 9.5. Fortunately, WINE provides a workaround. -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA