Created attachment 68433 [details] generated pdf with linked (embedded) video file, with an without autoplay Version: 0.13.2 (using KDE 4.7.4) OS: Linux generated pdf-file with latex-beamer-package "multimedia" integrated video does play, but documented option "autoplay" is being ignored - video has to be clicked to start. latex documentation: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/beamer/doc/beameruserguide.pdf #chapter 14.1 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: open pdf-file, wait. ;) Actual Results: nothing happens Expected Results: video starts automatically OS: Linux (x86_64) release 3.0.0-15-generic Compiler: gcc
This is a known shortcoming. A partial patch has been posted by Edward Hades. Please see the discussion at the end of bug 136574 for details.
So you could Confirm that Bug? I think its not a shortcoming - its a Showblocker!
Thanks to work by Edward Hades and Tobias König, autostarting movies with the MovieAnnotation (i.e., as produced by the 'multimedia' package) is now implemented in okular. You need the development branch and poppler 0.20. However: your particular movie still doesn't autostart. Apparently, the pdf is malformed and doesn't actually contain the necessary entries for autostart. Does your test case work with Acroread on Windows? If it doesn't: could you please file a bug for 'multimedia'?
Well Thanks in advance for working on this. The Testfiles don't work on Windows either - so we have to continue searching for a solution. How can we check if the autostart MovieAnnotation is right integrated? - Possibly we must ask the Latex - Beamer people to fix the malforming. How did you create the working pdf?
Please report a bug at https://bitbucket.org/rivanvx/beamer/wiki/Home, then, and post the link here. I was never able to create a working pdf, for the same reasons as you. And I don't know how the original working pdf (of https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136574) was created.
Well, since this is a broken pdf i'm closing this bug as invalid, next time it'd be cool if the pdf files you attach are not broken, i'm sure it helps people trying to implement the feature ;-)
I just found out that you need to use latex+dvitops+pstopdf in order to generate a working pdf with autoplay. pdflatex or pdftex does not work. This seems to be a bug in either the multimedia package or pdftex.
There used to be a bug in the multimedia package, but that has been fixed recently: https://bitbucket.org/rivanvx/beamer/issue/188/autostart-of-video-files-not-working Even the fixed package uses a different way to trigger the autostart when compiling with pdflatex than with latex+... and that different way is not supported by Okular (yet): https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300051
Well - than how is a autoplay - video - pdf displayed on linux?
Write your LaTeX file using the 'multimedia' package, but compile it with latex+dvitops+pstopdf. Then use a (very) recent version of poppler and okular to display. Alternatively, use the 'movie15' package instead of 'multimedia' (plus again recent poppler and okular). Then autostart also works for files compiled with pdflatex.