\movie command

[g.a.]

Hi all,

I started using beamer under a Kunbuntu o.s. and my first use of the command /movie was simply perfect. Under Okular I could see the movie within the pdf without problems.

I'm now working on Ubuntu 9.04 and I can not see anymore the movie within the pdf.

I tried several stuff, using Okular, Acrobat and the gnome document viewer but nothing was successful.

I read several posts that suggest to use the command \href and link to an executable script to do the game.

I wonder why it worked so simply under Kubuntu, what kind of libraries or configurations may I miss under my new Ubuntu ?

Any suggestion is welcome.

Best,
gianluca

[Sebastian Robitzsch]

Hi Gianluca,

Can you play the file itself in Gnome (VLC or so)? What format do you
use (mpg, avi, fla, ....). Have you installed texlive-full?

Please provide a little bit more information since this is rather an OS
issue than a beamer one.


Rgds,
Sebastian


g.a. wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I started using beamer under a Kunbuntu o.s. and my first use of the command
> /movie was simply perfect. Under Okular I could see the movie within the pdf
> without problems.
>
> I'm now working on Ubuntu 9.04 and I can not see anymore the movie within
> the pdf.
>
> I tried several stuff, using Okular, Acrobat and the gnome document viewer
> but nothing was successful.
>
> I read several posts that suggest to use the command \href and link to an
> executable script to do the game.
>
> I wonder why it worked so simply under Kubuntu, what kind of libraries or
> configurations may I miss under my new Ubuntu ?
>
> Any suggestion is welcome.
>
> Best,
> gianluca
>
> -----
> Ubuntu 9.04 64bit kernel 2.6.28-15-generic
> Dell Precision M2400 Intel Dual Core 2
> Nvidia Quadro FX 370M (Driver Nvidia 180.11)
> HDA Intel (STAC92xx Analog)

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[g.a.]

Hi Sebastian,

yes, I'm sure that beamer is working fine but I hope to find here someone that is user of both beamer and linux...

> Can you play the file itself in Gnome (VLC or so)? What format do you
> use (mpg, avi, fla, ....).

I can play without problems the videos with mplayers, both mpg and avi, from the shell or under nautilus or using a proper script.

>Have you installed texlive-full?

no, not the full. do you think i might miss some usefull packages? of course I have texlive and latex-beamer installed.

my impression is that it is rather an issue concerning Acrobat and Okular, a missing package or an un proper configuration file. In fact:

Acrobat asks for an additional player, it prompts for connection to its website and then tells me that no player is available for my o.s.

Okular reports the following message when opening the pdf from terminal:

okular(27799): Attempt to use QAction "bookmark_action_0" with KXMLGUIFactory!
okular(27799) Phonon::KdePlatformPlugin::createBackend: using backend:  "Xine"

thanks,
gianluca