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

[Dmitriy Morozov]

Fantastic! That worked. I just couldn't find the right place in the manual.

Many thanks, Otfried.

Happy New Year.
Dmitriy

On Sat, Dec 30, 2023 at 4:05 AM Otfried Cheong <ipe at otfried.org> wrote:

> Hi Dmitriy,
>
> the status is still what I described on the list in 2019.  It is not
> possible to actually store the movie inside the Ipe presentation, but one
> can place it in the same directory and play it from the Ipe presentation.
> Pdfpc will actually play it embedded inside the Ipe slide.
>
> Details for how to create the movie link are here:
>
>
> https://otfried.github.io/ipe/30_objects.html#links-to-websites-videos-and-other-pages
>
> Cheers,
> Otfried
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 30, 2023, at 02:48, Dmitriy Morozov wrote:
> > I found this old thread. What is the current status of movie embedding
> > in Ipe? I tried using pdfpc-movie package, but I keep getting a
> > compilation warning and an error:
> >
> > Package pdfpc-movie Warning: The movie file "foo.mp4" could
> > not be found in the current directory, where it must reside for viewing.
> on inp
> > ut line 55.
> >
> > ! pdfTeX error (ext4): link annotations cannot be inside an XForm.
> > <argument> ...shipout:D \box_use:N \l_shipout_box
> >
> > Any pointers or tips on the subject?
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Dmitriy
> >
> > P.S. I'm on macOS, in case it makes any difference.
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 6:53 AM Otfried Cheong via Ipe-discuss
> > <ipe-discuss at lists.science.uu.nl> wrote:
> >> I just had a look at pdfpc (https://pdfpc.github.io/) and Presentation
> (http://iihm.imag.fr/blanch/software/osx-presentation/), two apps for
> showing PDF presentations.
> >>
> >> Both support videos, and both do NOT use the PDF movie annotations.
> Instead, the user embeds in the PDF file only a link to a video, and then
> the player plays that video.   pdfpc will even embed the video inside the
> slide, Presentation will show it in a separate "movie view".
> >>
> >> I have just tested that I can create files with (a slightly modified
> version of) Ipe that will contain videos that display correctly with pdfpc
> and Presentation.   In pdfpc the video is indeed nicely embedded inside the
> slide, and you can set it up so that it starts automatically when you enter
> the slide.   In Presentation you have to click on the movie object on the
> slide, then the movie starts playing in a separate movie view.
> >>
> >> I will make it possible to use this in the next version of Ipe (you
> cannot currently do this with the released Ipe version, as it needs a
> different type of link annotation - a /Launch action rather than a /URI
> action).
> >>
> >> On Tue, Feb 26, 2019, at 12:36, Fabien Lafont via Ipe-discuss wrote:
> >> > I will try again and keep you posted. In my case embeding a video in
> an
> >> > IPE presentation would be used to replace the animations you can get
> >> > with keynote or powerpoint. Most of the time it is useless but from
> >> > time to time a continuous animation of a plot, curve, process gives a
> >> > better understanding to the audience to my opinion.
> >>
> >> Now that we have IpePresenter and are no longer restricted by the
> possibilities of PDF for Ipe presentations, I'm planning to add animations
> to Ipe in the near future.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>   Otfried
> >>
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