On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller <[email protected]> wrote: > stefano franchi wrote: > I think none of the existing PDF readers on Linux can play embedded movies. > Particularly, Adobe Reader for Linux does not provide a suitable media player, > whereas such files usually work on Windows (and Mac). > Using acroread I managed to play video embedded in PDF, on Linux. Try to open the 'movie15' example on CTAN [1] and you will have acroread asking if you wanted to play the file externally, and then firing up VLC. So I guess it depends what format you're embedding and how, and how much luck you've got.
Liviu [1] http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/movie15/doc/overlay-example.pdf
