The following minimal working example that embeds a film in a pdf:
\documentclass{article}
\pdfoutput=0
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[british]{babel}
\usepackage[ps2pdf]{hyperref}
\usepackage{movie15}
\begin{document}
Test.
\begin{figure}[ht]
\includemovie[playerid=AAPL_QuickTime,autoplay,controls,repeat,%
text={Anything here}]{10cm}{10cm}%
{/Users/christoph/Desktop/BLF/Films/Ultrafast-camera.mov}
\end{figure}
\end{document}
does not work in the dvi - ps- Distiller route. It compiles in latex, produces ps, but Distiller says:
Distilling: minworkex.ps
%%[ Error: undefinedfilename; OffendingCommand: file ]%%
Stack:
(r)
(/Users/christoph/Desktop/BLF/Films/Ultrafast-camera.mov)
{fstream1}
-mark-
%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%
Distill Time: 0 seconds (00:00:00)
**** End of Job ****
To show that nothing obvious is wrong, I add that the pdf is produced correctly if I change the filename to relative and use ps2pdf instead of Distiller.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! I would like to produce my free downloadable textbook with Distiller in the next edition.
P.S. I know that movie15 is obsolete, but for the time being it seems hard to change the many types of code for the dozens of movies in the tex source.