[Tex/LaTex] href does not run properly

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I have been working with Mac and TeX Live, the newest version. I want to run videos by a mouse click on the PDF generated by a beamer presentation. I tried with shells and I also used appify to generate an app thereof. I also generated apps directly from the AppscriptEditor. However, when I click in Adobe, it complains that it can not find the application to run the underlying file as set by \href and run:

\href{run:./start.video100.app/Contents/MacOS/start.video100}{something}

I also tried relative paths… nothing is working.

Several users reported that they were successful in their cases. I want to start a script which then runs a playlist of videos, preferably in VLC. Can anybody help?

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[Converting AlexG's comment to an answer]

If you are under OS X and don't mind using Adobe Reader, try the media9 package. Videos can be played in an embedded fashion, or in a detached player window.

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Be careful to escape the hash character #:

\href{http://example.com/ala.do?foo=bar&showSelfStudyTree=true\#}{source} % # truncated

I have to admit that in this case (hash at the very end of the link), this achieves successful compilation, but the hash character is lost upon opening the link from my pdf-viewer (evince). If the hash is somewhere inside the link, it is preserved:

\href{http://example.com/ala.do?showSelfStudyTree=true\#&foo=bar}{source} % # perserved

[Tex/LaTex] How to run VLC in a href (beamer)

This doesn't exactly answer your question because VLC is not used.

With media9, a video can be configured to play in a floating window of arbitrary size rather than in an embedded fashion. The video must be either in the FLV or in the H.264 format, though. But this can be easily done using an online service or FFmpeg on the command line:

ffmpeg -i getR.avi -vcodec libx264 getR.mp4

ffmpeg -i getR.avi getR.flv

The video would be embedded as

\includemedia[
  addresource=getR.mp4,
  windowed=1024x768,
  flashvars={
    source=getR.mp4
   &autoPlay=true
   &scaleMode=letterbox
  }
]{\includegraphics[width=1cm,height=1cm]{Rlogo.jpg}}{VPlayer.swf}

You may want to experiment with the window size (option windowed).

The scaleMode=letterbox FlashVar ensures that the video is resized correctly, in case its aspect ratio doesn't match the one of the playback window.

Alternatively, scaleMode=none suppresses rescaling of the video and it will be shown at its natural size. No pixel interpolations will take place which otherwise might be the source of undesired artefacts.

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