[Tex/LaTex] Beamer multimedia: display first then last image of a movie

animationsbeamermultimedia

Using the rather plain:

\documentclass{beamer}

\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{multimedia}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
    \movie{\includegraphics{first_image.png}}{movie.mp4}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

I get the first image of the movie in my presentation as a "poster" (cf. beamer doc), which is great. And I can click it in order to launch the movie. But it immediately gets back to the poster (so the first image) once finished, which is not what I want.

What is the simplest way to have the last_image.png displayed as a "poster" once the movie ends?

Best Answer

If the PDF is intended to be viewed in Acrobat Reader for Windows or OSX, or in Foxit Reader, you may try package media9 instead of multimedia. Its video player VPlayer.swf stops at the last frame of the video by default. (Though it can as well be configured to rewind to start after playback.)

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{media9,graphicx}

\begin{document}

\includemedia[
% width=0.4\linewidth,
% height=0.3\linewidth,
  addresource=movie.mp4,
  flashvars={
     source=movie.mp4
    &autoPlay=true %start playback immediately after loading VPlayer.swf
%   &autoRewind=false %the default
  }
]{\includegraphics{first_image.png}}{VPlayer.swf}

\end{document}
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