I'm new to beamer and use it on linux with just evince and no Acrobat software.
I'm preparing a speech with beamer and want to include a Video.
At the moment I use the multimedia package of beamer in a try to achieve this:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Warsaw}
\usepackage{multimedia}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}{First frame}
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}{Second Frame}
\movie[externalviewer,autostart]{A movie}{my_movie.mp4}
\end{frame}
\end{document}
And I can click the link and the video starts as expected.
Unfortunately I don't know whether I just have a presenter for the presentation or if I will have a mouse, so I would like the video to automatically start when the frame is shown.
This should be possible with the used command, but it doesn't work – the "autostart" parameter doesn't do anything.
Is there a way, how I can achieve this?
Thanks,
mathse
Best Answer
In PDF, this can be implemented using a `Launch' action, triggered by the page-open event.
Works in Acrobat Reader; as Evince does not listen to page events, the `Launch' action must be triggered manually by clicking the link.
pdflatex
orlualatex
;example-video.mp4
, which is not embedded, must be copied into the directory of the PDF: