[Tex/LaTex] Okular to play embedded videos in Beamer

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I have been trying to play embedded videos in presentations created in pdflatex/Beamer in Okular. I have read this and this but to no avail!

Any suggestions?

The version of Okular being used is 0.13.3 using KDE devlopment platform 4.7.4. I am running Ubuntu 11.10.

My minimum working example is

\documentclass[bookmarks=true]{beamer}

\setbeamertemplate{footline}[page number]
\setbeamercolor{structure}{bg=yellow, fg=black}

\usepackage[english]{babel}
% or whatever

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
% or whatever

\usepackage{times}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
% \usepackage{movie15}
\usepackage{multimedia}
\usepackage{fourier-orns}

%  \usepackage{caption}
\usepackage[font=scriptsize]{caption}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\captionsetup{compatibility=false}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}
\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}
%\usepackage{paralist}
\usepackage{color}
\definecolor{olivegreen}{rgb}{85, 107, 47}


\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Slide Title Here}
% 
% \centering
% \includemovie{6.5cm}{6.5cm}{waves.avi}
\movie{6cm}{6cm}{waves.wmv}

\end{frame}

\end{document}

My video file is uploaded here for you to download and use.

AVI file and wmv file

All I see in Okular is this:

enter image description here

:(

Best Answer

I managed to get your example working by using:

\movie[
  height = 6cm,
  width = 6cm,
  showcontrols,
  poster
] 
{}{waves.wmv}

Okular success

Note that I did that on Arch Linux with:

$ okular --version
Qt: 4.8.5
KDE Development Platform: 4.12.3
Okular: 0.18.3

For more details on the multimedia package, check this answer or the official documentation.

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