Thread: [Mplayerplug-in-devel] Acroread
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From: Peter S. <pet...@nr...> - 2006-01-25 14:24:32
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Hi, I've been using mplayer for a while but just now installed the mplayer plug-in for firefox. I'm very impressed. Is there an future plans to produce a similar plugin for acroread? Embedded movies for presentations produced in pdf (beamer, slidetex, etc) would be widely applicable to the scientific community. Presently, the absence of a capability to include embedded movies in pdf presentations (on the Linux side) is a major drawback of an otherwise great operating system. thanks, -- Pete |
From: James B. <jim...@ya...> - 2006-01-25 21:42:38
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On 25 Jan, Peter Schuck wrote: > Hi, > I've been using mplayer for a while but just now installed the > mplayer plug-in for firefox. I'm very impressed. > > Is there an future plans to produce a similar plugin for acroread? > > Embedded movies for presentations produced in pdf (beamer, slidetex, > etc) would be widely applicable to the scientific community. > Presently, the absence of > a capability to include embedded movies in pdf presentations (on the > Linux side) > is a major drawback of an otherwise great operating system. > > thanks, > > -- Pete > Adobe Reader 7.0.1 and earlier for Linux has a plug-in that works with Firefox. I don't know if it supports embedded movies, though. Also, there exist Plugger and Mozplugger which are free pdf reader plug-ins, but I'm pretty sure they don't support embedded movies. Mplayerplug-in only works with mplayer, which will play pretty much anything. It's just a matter of getting mplayer to pull the movie out of the pdf file. You should contact the mplayer development folks about that. - Jim |