[Tex/LaTex] Video not playing

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I want to play video in pdf using latex. Following is my sample code. When I try to play it, just an empty screen comes and video is not played. My basic requirement is that it should display picture with play/pause and when I play it should play. I could not understand much from media9 package file. Please help

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{media9}

\begin{document}

\includemedia[label=videofile, width=1.0\textwidth, addresource=srs.mp4,
flashvars={source=srs.mp4}]{\includegraphics[width=1.0\textwidth]
{views}}{VPlayer.swf} 

\end{document}

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Flash support has discontinued from Dec 2020. Media9 no longer works as above. Fixes are in Media9 Alternatives

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[Tex/LaTex] \includemedia won’t play video

The code is not correct. Playback of a video file (movie.mp4) needs a Flash-based media player to be included as the last argument of \includemedia. The video file itself must be embedded as a resource file and be made known to the media player by means of a media player specific Flash variable.

Adobe Reader on Linux has support for Flash and media playback up to version 9.4.1. It was dropped thereafter. The built-in Flash player of AR-9.4.1 supports Flash content up to Flash version 9. However, the media players shipping with media9 require Flash Player 10.

player_flv_maxi.swf is Flash Player 9 compatible and can be used with media9 and AR-9.4.1 on Linux. Its FlashVars for configuration are documented here. The most important FlashVar is the one for setting the video source. Here it is called flv=....

AR-9.4.1 for Linux can be downloaded from Adobes FTP server.

Here is your adapted code example that should work:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Singapore}
\usepackage{media9}

\begin{document}
\begin{frame}{Title}

\includemedia[
  width=\paperwidth,
  height=0.7\linewidth,
  activate=pageopen,
  addresource=movie.mp4,
  flashvars={flv=movie.mp4&autoplay=1}
]{}{player_flv_maxi.swf}

\end{frame}
\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] \includemedia does not play video but remains blank

Your video file seems to be corrupt/using the wrong video codec. I successfully tried your example with file random.mp4 (h.264 codec) from the media9 package.

Note, that with the current configuration, on clicking once, VPlayer.swf will be activated only. To have the video start playing after one click, you must append &autoPlay=true to the flashvars option. Alternatively, you could put activate=pageopen to the options list of \inlcudemedia. Then, VPlayer.swf will be automatically activated showing the first frame of the video file and obscuring the embedded poster graphics file. The first click will start playback.

Further note that one of the width options (\includegraphics or \inlcudemedia) is redundant.

The label option is only needed if you want to refer to this media inclusion from a \PushButton with JavaScript or a \medialink (soon to come).

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