Adobe Community: Linux: player options for AVI movies?

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1. Varun Khaneja,

Aug 28, 2009 3:49 AM in reply to Gerhard Schneider

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Hi Gerhard,

Adobe Reader for Linux supports only Real Player for multimedia playback.

Hence, to be able to play AVI files inside Adobe Reader, you'd need to install a version of Real Player that supports playing AVI files.

Sincerely,

Varun Khaneja

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2. James Quirk,

Aug 28, 2009 5:32 AM in reply to Gerhard Schneider

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Hi Gerhard,

For a portable solution, I would suggest that you convert your AVI files to SWF's and

use the new /RichMediaAnnotation, rather than the older media player route.

Here I'm attaching a PDF, mooncall.pdf, also available at:

http://www.galcit.caltech.edu/~jjq/4adobe/mooncall.pdf

which shows what I mean. As it stands, the attached lacks the usual video player

controls, but they can easily be added.

James

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mooncall.pdf (4.2 MB)

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3. James Quirk,

Aug 28, 2009 9:12 AM in reply to James Quirk

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As a follow-up, attached shows a FLV file streaming in a PDF

with a custom set of video controls. In short, given the flexibility

of PDF's new /RichMediaAnnot, and ffmpeg's ability to convert

AVI's to SWF or FLV, I personally would not bother with

the old media player approach.

James

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apollo_11.pdf (241.5 K)

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4. Gerhard Schneider,

Aug 30, 2009 10:34 PM in reply to James Quirk

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Thank you for your replies, but:

1) We get the PDF files from different sources, converting them is no option for a larger conference with 1500 speakers..

2) On Linux the codecs supported by Real Player Gold (and the Helix Player) are very limited.

So the limitation to Real Player seems to be a show stopper for Adobe Reader on linux..

Thank you!

Gerhard Schneider

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5. James Quirk,

Aug 31, 2009 5:51 AM in reply to Gerhard Schneider

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Sorry. It's always hard to offer assistance without knowing the full

context in which a question is asked.

In this instance, it would also be useful to know what Adobe's future plans are

for AR's media player. In the long term I would imagine that the media player

will be deprecated, as the SWF based route gives Adobe better software

control in that they no longer need rely on third-party players. But that's

just speculation on my part, and some official guidance would be welcome.

James

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6. Black Anthony,

Mar 15, 2010 9:25 AM in reply to James Quirk

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Are there any updates about Adobe's plans on this annoying issue?

Other Linux pdf viewers such as Okular and Evince are trying to include multimedia capabilities but are still under development.

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