Embedded movies

[Tobias Burnus <tobias.burnus@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

Hi,

I somehow completely fail to embed successfully a movie into a pdf.

I tried to test-view http://www/pragma-ade.com/general/uptodate/up-003-s.pdf
but this failed with:
"texwork.mov" cannot be found. Would you like to choose a replacement file?

Then I tried
\externalfigure[elf-iso.avi][height=\textheight,
                               width=\textheight,
                             preview=no,
                              repeat=yes]

The problem I have is that I have neither a working AVI file (the one I
created with mencoder doesn't work with Quicktime or Windows Media
Player due to the codec used) nor a .mov file.
Windows Media player is able to play a MPEG file with the extention .avi,
but Acrobat doesn't like it :-(
Moreover Acrobat Reader is not able to create useful error message :-(

Thus: Is it in principle possible to embed *.mpg files? This would save me
a lot of work. (Somehow I failed to do so when modifying core-fig.tex)
Otherwise, what is the best way to proceed?


Tobias

PS: Rdesktop is a nice way to access Windows from Linux :-)
    but Adobe could support movies in PDFs under Linux :-(