Including movies in pdf files

Including movies in pdf files

[Aditya Mahajan]

Hi,

I was updating the wiki entry on \externalfigures 
(http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/externalfigure) and noticed that I 
cannot get ConTeXt to include a movie.

I tried the following

\starttext
\externalfigure[clip.mov]
\stoptext

(where clip.mov is a quicktime movie distributed with Mathematica, which I 
copied to the current directory).

The movie file is 16K and the resultant PDF file is 4.5K, which means that 
the movie is not embedded in the PDF (which in itself is not a problem, 
because, IIUC, context does not embed the movie in the pdf file anyways). 
However, when I open the file in acroread 9.5.1 (on Linux), and no movie 
is shown in the pdf file.

So, does ConTeXt support including movies in pdf files, and if so, can 
someone provide a minimal working example.

Aditya
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Re: Including movies in pdf files

[Aditya Mahajan]

On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was updating the wiki entry on \externalfigures 
> (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/externalfigure) and noticed that I 
> cannot get ConTeXt to include a movie.
>
> [...]
> 
> So, does ConTeXt support including movies in pdf files, and if so, can 
> someone provide a minimal working example.

It appears to be a viewer issue.

\pdfcompresslevel=0
\setupinteraction[state=start]
\starttext
\externalfigure[clip.mov][height=2cm, width=2cm, preview=yes]
\stoptext

The pdf file has

<<
/Type /Annot
/A << /ShowControls true >> /Subtype /Movie /T (movie clip.mov) /Border [ 0 0 0 ] /Movie << /Poster true /Aspect [ 56.692913385827 56.692913385827 ] 
/F (clip.mov) >>
/Rect [70.867 657.6468 127.5599 714.3397]
>>

so, ConTeXt appears to be including the right annotation, but the viewer 
(acroread) is not rendering the movie.

Aditya
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Re: Including movies in pdf files

[Rogers, Michael K]

On Dec 2, 2012, at 1:02 PM, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
 wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was updating the wiki entry on \externalfigures (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/externalfigure) and noticed that I cannot get ConTeXt to include a movie.
>>
>> [...]
>> So, does ConTeXt support including movies in pdf files, and if so, can someone provide a minimal working example.
>
> It appears to be a viewer issue.
>
> \pdfcompresslevel=0
> \setupinteraction[state=start]
> \starttext
> \externalfigure[clip.mov][height=2cm, width=2cm, preview=yes]
> \stoptext
>
> The pdf file has
>
> <<
> /Type /Annot
> /A << /ShowControls true >> /Subtype /Movie /T (movie clip.mov) /Border [ 0 0 0 ] /Movie << /Poster true /Aspect [ 56.692913385827 56.692913385827 ] /F (clip.mov) >>
> /Rect [70.867 657.6468 127.5599 714.3397]
>>>
>
> so, ConTeXt appears to be including the right annotation, but the viewer (acroread) is not rendering the movie.

Your example works on my Mac with Adobe Reader 10.1.4, with one of my own .mov files substituted.  The pdf code is the same, except with a different filename.



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Re: Including movies in pdf files

[Aditya Mahajan]

On Sun, 2 Dec 2012, Rogers, Michael K wrote:

> On Dec 2, 2012, at 1:02 PM, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I was updating the wiki entry on \externalfigures (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/externalfigure) and noticed that I cannot get ConTeXt to include a movie.
>>>
>>> [...]
>>> So, does ConTeXt support including movies in pdf files, and if so, can someone provide a minimal working example.
>>
>> It appears to be a viewer issue.
>>
>> \pdfcompresslevel=0
>> \setupinteraction[state=start]
>> \starttext
>> \externalfigure[clip.mov][height=2cm, width=2cm, preview=yes]
>> \stoptext
>>
>> The pdf file has
>>
>> <<
>> /Type /Annot
>> /A << /ShowControls true >> /Subtype /Movie /T (movie clip.mov) /Border [ 0 0 0 ] /Movie << /Poster true /Aspect [ 56.692913385827 56.692913385827 ] /F (clip.mov) >>
>> /Rect [70.867 657.6468 127.5599 714.3397]
>>>>
>>
>> so, ConTeXt appears to be including the right annotation, but the viewer (acroread) is not rendering the movie.
>
> Your example works on my Mac with Adobe Reader 10.1.4, with one of my own .mov files substituted.  The pdf code is the same, except with a different filename.

Thanks for checking. This means that it is a viewer issue on Linux :-(

Aditya
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Re: Including movies in pdf files

[Bill Meahan]

On 12/02/2012 03:43 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>
> Thanks for checking. This means that it is a viewer issue on Linux :-(
>
> Aditya

FWIW, Adobe Acrobat Reader 11.0 installs and runs on Xubuntu 12.04 i386 
(at least the normal functions run, haven't tried any of the oddball stuff).

-- 
Bill Meahan
Westland, Michigan USA

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Re: Including movies in pdf files

[Martin Schröder]

2012/12/3 Bill Meahan <subscribed_lists@meahan.net>:
> FWIW, Adobe Acrobat Reader 11.0 installs and runs on Xubuntu 12.04 i386 (at
> least the normal functions run, haven't tried any of the oddball stuff).

And where do you get that? It's not listed at
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=10&platform=unix

Best
   Martin
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Re: Including movies in pdf files

[Bill Meahan]

On 12/02/2012 06:29 PM, Martin Schröder wrote:
> And where do you get that? It's not listed at
> http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=10&platform=unix
>
> Best
>     Martin
>
Note: "under wine" means running a Windows program via the WINE 
translation layer so it is the Windows version of Acrobat Reader, not a 
native Linux/BSD/Unix application.

Adobe has stopped supporting Linux/BSD/Unix as of Reader 9.5. 
Fortunately, WINE provides a workaround.

-- 
Bill Meahan
Westland, Michigan USA

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