Re: Embedded movies

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

Hi,

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Piotr Kopszak wrote:
> They (avi and mov) do work  both and on both windows and linux (didn't
> try on  Mac).
What do you mean by "work on Linux"? Are you able to show the movies under
Linux? (This would be great!) Or have you only created the movies under
Linux.

> I made a  presentation with lots  of avis in it  about a
> year ago with ConTeXt and it works fine. Have you got the right codecs
> installed on your system?
Hmm, probably I haven't the right codecs.

I tried now another one (I'm not really a movie expert) and it seems to
work (using: mencoder -noautosub -nosound -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg1video -ovc
lavc -o output.avi elf-iso.avi)

I encountered now this problem with this test file:
\starttext
  \externalfigure[output.avi][height=2em,
                               width=2em,
                             preview=yes,
                              repeat=yes]
\stoptext

a) Using ConTeXt  ver: 2003.1.31  fmt: 2003.4.30
Works ok (I think, using rdesktop I can only see the preview, I don't know
whether the playing works).

b) Using ConTeXt  ver: 2003.4.29  fmt: 2003.6.17:
systems        : begin file test at line 1
)
! Incomplete \ifx; all text was ignored after line 6.
<inserted text>
                \fi
<*> &cont-en test.tex

?


Tobias