[pdftex] Movies (.mov or .mpeg) in PDF documents with pdfTeX?

[Steffen Neumann]

Gerben Wierda <sherlock at rna.nl> writes:

> See subject, is this possible?

You need a little shell script in the same directory 
than your *.pdf file, that starts a movie player with 
your desired movie. Commandline arguments are unsupported,
hence the wrapper-script.

If you have a script.pif file next to that this also (in theory)
works for windooze.

Yours,
Steffen



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