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Sytse Knypstra said this at Thu, 12 Jun 2003 11:12:01 +0200:

>Let's say I want to start mediaplayer with the file MyMusic.wav.

Well, for this specific example, why not \useexternalsoundtrack (core-fig)?
Acrobat seems to support a fair number of media types in a cross-platform
way, which could get around relying on mediaplayer being around on any
particular machine...

adam

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