Bug 198035

Summary:	support for media Rendition
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	Vito De Tullio <vito.detullio>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	bradh, gbodley, luigi.toscano
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Vito De Tullio 2009-06-27 08:43:16 UTC

Version:           0.8.80 (using Devel)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

I encountered a really "strange" pdf.
One of the problems I see is that the authors of the pdf say there is a background music, that I can listen while reading the pages.

Does okular support this "multimedia" pdf? 

I can pass you the pdf but
1) it's really a "beast" of 109Mb
2) I'm not really sure about its legality (it's a fan manga scanlation)

ps: for the record, adobe acrobat it's supposed to support audio via plugin / external media player, but the necessary plugin it's not present for linux (http://www.adobe.com/special/acrobat/nomediaplayer.html)

Comment 1 Pino Toscano 2009-06-27 09:04:39 UTC

Yes, Okular (or better, Poppler) supports some kind of multimedia.
Of course, without the document there's nothing to do, I'm afraid.

Comment 2 Vito De Tullio 2009-06-27 10:03:24 UTC

If you have no problems, the link to download the file is http://www.vazcomics.org/bbf/downloads.php?cat_id=77&download_id=507

Comment 3 Brad Hards 2009-06-28 03:54:58 UTC

Managed to download it.

Looks like it is using the Rendition annotation to play audio/mpeg data. (PDF 1.7, Table 8.64 and Section 9.1.2 onwards).

Interestingly, podofobrowser had problems with the embedded stream.

Comment 4 gbodley 2019-01-05 12:57:05 UTC

Ideally there would be high quality text to speech integrated into documents.  I imagine that is a long way off as text to speech on Linux is generally extremely poor.

Comment 5 Luigi Toscano 2019-01-05 15:03:58 UTC

(In reply to gbodley from comment #4)
> Ideally there would be high quality text to speech integrated into
> documents.  I imagine that is a long way off as text to speech on Linux is
> generally extremely poor.

This bug report is not about text-to-speech. Please keep the comments to bug reports relevant to the bug report itself; this is not your first example of derailing from the topic of the bug report.