On Wednesday 12 February 2014 16:10:02 stefano franchi wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 6:20 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann < > > engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Can I start a short mp4 movie from within a beamer presentation? I use > > Debian. > > In theory, yes (look at chapter 14 of Beamer documentation). In > practice, I was never able to get it to work. I think it is a more an > issue with pdf readers on linux than with beamer itself. In other > words, a > beamer-on-Debian-produced pdf file run on a windows/mac installation of > acrobat reader (or other pdf viewer) might work (I haven't tried). > But in my experience, linux-produced and linux-consumed beamer > presentations with video do not work. > YMMV, > > S.
Thanks for that, Stefano. So I would just leave the presentation for the time showing the movie and switch back to the presentation afterward, I guess. Wolfgang
