Re: Embedded movies

[Maarten Sneep <maarten.sneep@xs4all.nl>]

On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 09:35 PM, Tobias Burnus wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Maarten Sneep wrote:
>> Are you using windows to display?
> Yes (or more exactly: I access using rdesktop a Windows 2003 server 
> from
> Linux).

I found out at the wrong moment: I had made this nice presentation, 
works nicely on my Mac, but the final presentation machine was a Win XP 
machine...

>> I never got that to work, but Mac works fine...
> Hmm, I will try tomorrow. The PDF should run on a Mac at the end 
> anyway.
>
> Have you tried .avi's or .mpg's, or only Quicktime .mov's?

Both avi and mov.

>> Besides, movies are not embedded (at the moment), so you
>> need to have the movie file next to your pdf for display, and use 8.3
>> names, just to be on the safe side.
> Well, I know that the movie _files_ are not embedded, but I used it - a
> bit unprecise - to note the fact that the movies are shown/displayed in
> the document (and not by - let's say - starting a external program).

The new pdf 1.5 format will embed (or at least has the possibility to 
embed) the files themselves, that's why I was a bit -ahem- annoying.