[pdftex] FYI: Acrobat Reader 5.0.5

[Patrick Riley]

I have used movies in my presenations on linux. In the end it looks
good, but it's a pretty big hack to make it work. I've used mpeg and
MpegTV (http://www.mpegtv.com/) to play the movies. I have this in my
tex file:

\newcommand{\moviedir}{movies}
\newcommand{\movielink}[2][]{\href{run:\moviedir/run-#2.sh}{\includegraphics[#1]{\moviedir/#2}}}

\movielink[scale=.87]{hillclimb45}

Then in the movies directory, I have this: hillclimb45.mpg (the movie file),
hillclimb45.png (the preview image), and run-hillclimb45.sh.

The .sh file is:
#!/bin/sh

# use -G to set geometry

# I do this linking so that my window manager knows not to put a frame around this window
ln -sf `pwd`/movies/hillclimb45.mpg /tmp/no-frame-movie.mpg
mtvp -G+485+359 /tmp/no-frame-movie.mpg 


Because the window come up without a frame, it looks like the movie
plays right in the presenation, but in fact it's just another
window. I have to play around with scaling and geometry stuff to make
it look right. xwininfo is your friend in that case :-)

YMMV

-- 
Pat Riley
Third Year Ph.D. Student                                 
Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University     
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pfr



oscar at iit.upco.es writes:
 > story at uakron.edu escribió:
 > > 
 > > Acrobat Reader 5.0.5 for Linux and Sun Solris SPARC
 > > has been loaded to the adobe web site.  See
 > > 
 > > http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
 > 
 > Many thanks for the link. 
 > 
 > Does anybody know if this version has improved the video display support
 > for linux. I work on a linux box and I create presentations using
 > pdflatex and I usually insert a video by means of:
 > 
 > \newcommand{\video}[5]{\vspace{#3}\hspace{#2}{\pdfannot width #4 height
 > #5 depth 0cm { /Subtype /Movie /C [1 0 0] /Border [0 0 3] /Movie
 > <</Poster true /F (#1)>> }}}
 > \video{g.avi}{4cm}{12cm}{12cm}{12cm}
 > 
 > Of course this video can only be displayed properly in windows, but for
 > development pourposes this was enough, because the presentation usually
 > was in a windos PC. So I develop the presentation on linux and finally
 > the video was displayed in a windows PC
 > 
 > Recently, I tested an old presentation using this method in a PC with
 > Acrobat 5.00 and it was unable to load the video. it asked me for
 > QuickTime Plugin. What does it mean ? Should I buy QuickTime? Does it
 > exist any way to display avi videos in current acrobat  version?
 > 
 > Moreover there exist any way to produce a presentation to be displayed
 > in linux with a video format. I usually produce a video image by making
 > a sequence of graphs that I merge into a single gif animated and
 > converted to avi. But I do not mind the format of the video animation,
 > I'd just like to show a sequence of graphs without striking N times the
 > enter key.
 > 
 > Does anybody please comment its own experiences including video formats
 > on linux?
 > 
 > Thanks a lot for your help
 > Best regards
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