I am trying to use movie15
to embed vector animations in my presentation. The trouble is that embedded SWF files refuse to display on Acrobat Reader X sometimes with a "This Media requires an additional player" message. Eg. this example file doesn't work.
Animated GIFs won't display either, with no error message.
Maybe this is an Acrobat issue but I tried the flashmovie
package with the same SWF files and that does work (but only with the embedded player option so no controls are visible). But flashmovie
is supposedly unstable with beamer
so I was wondering if someone had run into the same problem with movie15
.
I am using Windows 7, Acrobat 10.1.2 and MiKTeX.
Best Answer
The replacement package is available on CTAN. It is called
media9
and documented on CTAN.Use the MiKTeX or TeXLive package managers for installation.
A simple example embedding an SWF would be
A minimal example for embedding a video file, using the video player component
VPlayer.swf
shipping withmedia9
and using thepdflatex
,lualatex
,latex
-->dvips
-->ps2pdf
orlatex->dvipdfmx
/xelatex
work-flows would beVideo files must be in the
MP4
format. Videos in other formats must be converted toMP4
, or recreated from the raw material. TheH.264
codec gives high quality video at stunningly small file size. Withffmpeg
, video files can be created easily.From an existing video file, such as
Sample.avi
, re-encoded with 30 frames (entered on a single command line):From a numbered sequence of bitmaps, such as
frame-0.png
,frame-1.png
, ... :