[Ipe-discuss] [ipe-discuss] Movie in an IPE presentation

[Otfried Cheong]

The OSX PDF viewer can apparently show Quicktime movies.

Is there really a compelling reason that the movie must play inside the PDF file, rather than having it play in a separate window?

I've had a look at the PDF reference - it wouldn't be too hard to add movie annotations, but I'm not sure it's really worth the effort, if there are no PDF viewers that can play them.    

Cheers,
  Otfried

On Mon, Feb 25, 2019, at 18:01, Tim Hutt wrote:
> In the past I have spent quite a lot of time trying to embed videos
> into plain old PDFs using every Latex package that claims that ability
> (and there are several!). Unfortunately none of them really work. The
> fundamental problem is that the PDF format doesn't really support
> videos. It *does* support embedding Flash, so you can sort of get a
> PDF with video in it (and other Flashy nonsense). But the only PDF
> viewer that actually supports embedded Flash is Acrobat and how many
> people still use that?
> 
> I would strongly recommend giving up and going another route (e.g.
> adding a link as Otfried suggested).
> 
> The best possibility would be if IPE supported HTML export, maybe
> using some combination of Ketex, SVG and Remark.js. Then IPE could add
> a proper video object that uses HTML5 video. Quite a lot of work to do
> that though! And it might be awkward to have an object in IPE that
> only works with HTML and not PDF.
> 
> On Mon, 25 Feb 2019 at 14:26, Otfried Cheong via Ipe-discuss
> <ipe-discuss at lists.science.uu.nl> wrote:
> >
> > I'm pretty sure this is not currently possible (a movie is a page annotation, not a page resource, and cannot simply be copied through from the pdflatex output).
> >
> > I will look into making this possible if there is enough interest.
> >
> > For the moment, what you can do is place the movie file in the same directory as your Ipe document and create a link inside Ipe.  (Make a group object, right click and use "Set link URL").
> >
> > Cheers,
> >   Otfried
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2019, at 12:09, Fabien Lafont via Ipe-discuss wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > Did anyone suceeded in embeding a movie in an IPE presentation? I tried
> > > using the latex movie9 package but so far with no success.
> > >
> > > best,
> > >
> > > Fabien
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