Movie as externalfigure

Movie as externalfigure

[Eckhart Guthöhrlein]

Hi all,

probably I'm missing something trivial, but I can't make context include
a mov-file. Here is my input:

\starttext
   \externalfigure[mdmovie.mov]
      [label=md,width=4cm,height=4cm,preview=yes]
\stoptext

I don't get a movie in the pdf resulting from `texexec --pdf`, only this
message seems to be a hint:

figures        : figure mdmovie.mov is not preset

I found this problem in the archive; it was solved by specifying height
and width.
But I did already specify both height and width, so what's the problem?
The movie is located in the same directory as the tex-file, so it has to
be found, too. (And I guess 'preset' is not a typo anyway, is it?)
I couldn't find anything helpful in the docs or the wiki, either.

My version is the latest beta:
pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10a-RC3-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.3)
ConTeXt  ver: 2004.8.18  fmt: 2004.9.16  int: english  mes: english

Thanks in advance,
Eckhart

Re: Movie as externalfigure

[Eckhart Guthöhrlein]

Hello again,

I've tried several things today, without success. Well, I need some
stuff until Monday, and it would be really great - although not vitally
important - to have that *#?! movie in my presentation. If anybody has
an idea what's going wrong, please let me know soon.

Thanks a lot,
Eckhart

Re: Movie as externalfigure

[Eckhart Guthöhrlein]

Hello,

it seems I have a problem with OS / version / plugin or whatever
dependencies. While I there is nothing visible where the movie should
appear using Acrobat Reader 5.08 (Solaris), everything works well using
the same pdf file and Acrobat Reader 6.02 (Windows 2000).
Since my target is a windows machine this time, I hope everything will
be fine.

Greetings,
Eckhart

Re: Movie as externalfigure

[Vit Zyka]

> it seems I have a problem with OS / version / plugin or whatever
> dependencies. While I there is nothing visible where the movie should
> appear using Acrobat Reader 5.08 (Solaris), everything works well using
> the same pdf file and Acrobat Reader 6.02 (Windows 2000).

Unix/Linux AR versions have not support movie/sound annotations yet.
Nothing seems to change :-((

Vit Zyka

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