Questions tagged [media9]
media9 is a LaTeX package for embedding interactive Adobe Flash (SWF) and 3D files (Adobe U3D & PRC) as well as video and sound files or streams (FLV, MP4/H.264, MP3) into PDF documents with Adobe Reader-9/X compatibility.
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Include audio file in PDF — Update due to stopped support of FlashPlayer by Acrobat
usually, I included Audio files via FlashPlayer in PDF documents with the Media9 package:
\usepackage{media9}
\addmediapath{./folder}
\includemedia[
transparent,
passcontext,
addresource=audio.mp3,
...
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How to embed an MP4 video in Beamer
As I'm preparing a presentation, which includes a small 30 second video, I want to embed the video, so that file-location doesn't matter when the PDF is passed along. Furthermore, it has to be as easy ...
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Alternatives for media9 after Dec 2020 in overleaf
I would like to know if there are alternatives for media9 package in overleaf for embedding video / animation. This page says the package is obsolete: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/obsolete-...
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Make video (avi, mp4, etc) out of animate package animation [duplicate]
I have an animation that I made with the animate package for a Beamer presentation. The animation creates a sequence of tikz drawings that change according to an animate variable. The result is an ...
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Why Acrobat 11 does not show SWG animation?
I am using media9 package to import SWG animations to PDF file. E.g.
\includemedia[
width=\textwidth,height=0.539930555556\textwidth, % scale=1.4,
activate=pageopen,
%addresource=Video/...
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Embedding sound file won't play when converted to PDF (Adobe Acrobat Reader DC)
I've been trying to embed a sound file into my PDF, but unfortunately it won't play when opening the PDF.
At first it asks whether the file is trusted, to which i approve. Then it informs me that the ...
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How to insert a video in beamer using TexStudio/MikTex?
I am using TeXstudio/MiKTeX and Adobe Reader for my presentation.
I want to insert two videos in that, one in .mov and other in .avi formats. I saw many similar questions about problems with ...
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3D PDF figure generation
I'm currently writing my bachelor thesis in LaTeX and just a few days ago I found that pdf allows for 3D figures insertion (using the media9 package).
I've managed to add an object I found online into ...
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Issue with media9 package
I am having an issue with the media9 package. The following MWE is not working
\usepackage{media9}
\begin{document}
\includemedia{}{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-29AZf-NkU}
\end{document}
but ...
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How does one include a MP4 within a pdf via Media9 and TexShop?
Here's my MWE:
Based on http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/latex/media9/media9.pdf
[Only a non-clickable button appears, no errors for media9 in Console, other similar queries are from antiquity, thx!]
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Transparent option with media9 not working
Something like
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage{media9}
\newcommand{\myvid}[3]{\includemedia[
width=#2,height=#3,
activate=pageopen,
keepaspectratio,
transparent,
...
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media9 windowed not working
I'm trying to embed a mp4 video file into a latex document. My attempt was to use the media9 package. The problem is that I want the video to play in full screen mode, which I couldn't achieve so far.
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Compilation error when using package media9/ VPlayer.swf
I'm using media9 package with MikTeX 4.0 and TeXstudio 2.12.22 , but when I try to compile there are 2 errors.
Package media9 Error: Line 217: File `imagenes/videosmp4/3dWS-DD.mp4' not(media9) found. ...
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Media9 mp4 video not playing?
I've got the below code, trying to play a video named 'CaseA.mp4'. I am using the media9 package. When I open the document up (have installed latest updates for flash and adobe', the error comes up ...
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Including pdfpages with 3D objects in latex report
I'm writing a technical report and i would like to include a pdf document with interactive 3D Objects.
Currently, i'm using
\includepdf[scale=0.9,pages=-, pagecommand={}]{document.pdf}
and it ...
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Media9 struggling with Polyglossia Arabic
Here is a minor problem met with Media9.
This plugin seems affected by the presence of arabic parameters, and erases all the text from the following Minimal not really working example :
\...
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PDF reader for the multimedia package for Windows
I can embed videos in Beamer either with \movie of multimedia, or \includemedia of media9.
In the first case, videos are correctly displayed in Okular (Linux). In the second case, I use Adobe Reader (...
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Video in beamer gets refreshed with \pause command
\documentclass[10pt]{beamer}
\usepackage{media9}
\usepackage{multimedia}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}[b]{Title}
% If the video is in the first frame, it often doesn't start (I ...
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Embedding with a video with media9 across slide transitions
Within one beamer frame, I want a video clip to play once. I then want text to appear and the final frame of the clip to remain visible. To avoid clicking the video, I use the activate=pageopen option ...
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Start, pause, resume and replay an embedded video
I experiment with an example from https://www.overleaf.com/latex/examples/using-media9-to-include-videos-files/yvdwwvpknjkk to embed a video using the media9 package:
\documentclass{article}
\...
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Error when compiling code with \includemedia and \media9 only on a specific machine
I use the code below
\includemedia[
label=freezing,
width=0.9\linewidth, height=0.675\linewidth,
addresource=freezingVideo.mp4,
transparent,
activate=pageopen,...
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Issue with looping videos in beamer presentation using media9 package
I've stumbled across an issue when trying to embed a video in my beamer presentation using the media9 package. Strangely, it embeds it correctly and displays it properly for the first iteration. ...
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media9 mp4 video not playing
In theory, media9 should be able to embed MP4 movies into a PDF. The document is compiled fine with PDFlatex, but I get a blank screen when opening it in Adobe PDF on Windows 10.
Below is a minimal ...
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Media9 is becoming obsolete Dec 2020. Any alternatives for embedding video/audio in LaTeX?
Media9 is becoming obsolete Dec 2020 due to Adobe dropping Flash support. Is there any replacement out there that does not rely on Flash that will allow the inclusion of video and audio in latex ...
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After installing media9 install I get \prg_generate_conditional_variant:Nnn etc as undefined control sequence
I have attempted to install media9 and seem to have done it as per https://gitlab.com/agrahn/media9 then I have included some videos in a latex/beamer document but on compile I get Undefined control ...
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Connect .swf with media9
I found out that it is possible to call external javascript in an browser with my interactive .swf document using the ExternalInterface provided by Adobe. That means, that with e. g. button clicks I ...
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Pass value to command / Create custom buttoms with media9
I am quite a newby when it comes to defining custom methods/macros in LaTeX. My MWE looks like that:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\newcounter{myCounter}
\setcounter{myCounter}{1}
\...
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How to insert movie in Palin Tex? [duplicate]
How to insert movie in Palin Tex?
% Plain TeX
\input media9.sty
\includemedia[addresource=cube.mp4,
flashvars={source=cube.mp4&autoPlay=true &loop=true},passcontext
]{\includegraphics[...
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Non-rotating film by XeLatex
Non-rotating film by XeLatex
% XeLatex
\documentclass[10pt]{report}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{media9}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\rotatebox{45}{\includemedia[...
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How can I resize a poster image in Latex (media9 package) while keeping the original media size?
I would like to use LaTeX with the Media9 package to make a pdf with embedded u3d files where each has a poster image that is scalable independently of the size of the media.
I have already tried to ...
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Read video (mp4) with beamer on Windows with the multimedia package
I am using beamer on Windows 10, and I want my mp4 video to be read using the multimedia package (I do not want media9 since I have multiple videos and the final pdf file is way too heavy in the end). ...
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TEMPO: play a sound in animated GIF/PDF/SVG
When practicing piano, TEMPO (an app on iOS, CHplay) is a metronome that often be used to beat on time.
I can make animated GIF/PDF/SVG/frame (in beamer) for TEMPO, but don't know how to play a ...
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\ifthenelse statement inside includemedia options
I try to enable / disable some options for my 3D view with \ifthenelse.
\documentclass[fontsize=12pt,paper=a4]{scrbook}
\usepackage{media9}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{ifthen}
\begin{document}
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media9: How to disable zoom in 3D view
I try to disable the "zoom" functionality in my 3D .prc model using media9 package. How can I archive this?
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{media9}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
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Add a .avi video in Beamer
I am trying to add a single video in a beamer presentation. I am using \usepackage{multimedia} and in my main code following code added for the video:
\begin{frame}{Movie}
\movie[showcontrols]{\...
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My code uses `media9` and does most of what is expected, except play the video or audio files!
The .jpg, .MP3 and .MP4 files reside in folder …/Files. The code was lifted from Overleaf but I cannot get it to play the audio and video files. What is missing? I am running with Windows 10 and ...
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How to shift a video on a beamer frame?
I have a video in my beamer presentation which is already in fullscreen size but is shifted a few cm down and a few cm to the right. How can I shift an \includemedia environment?
MMW :
\...
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Beamer - mp3 - file does not play
For a presentation I need to add a mp3 file. I already followed all steps in the Q&A at How to include multimedia files in beamer. My followed MMW does compile but do not deliver any sound at all. ...
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embedding sound with beamer overlays
I want to embed audio with beamer slides. I am using media9. I want my audio to start when a slide becomes visible, and stop when it disappears. Without overlays this is not a problem. But I can't ...
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Set precise time on a video using javascript
Hi i'm trying to get a button to set the video time a precise point.
The code listed below is what i've made up till now but its not working.
i think because it cant get the document.getElementById.
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Media9 in beamer
When I run below code in my Linux system, there are some errors which I cannot understand where they come from.
Here is my code:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{media9}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\...
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Embedding video in beamer using okular
I've read everything on this topic like this, this, this, this, etc.
All solutions are very old and I am not able to get them to work on my current system.
I am using:
arch 4.19.4
okular 1.5.3
...
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Compilation error when using Media9 package
I am compiling this example from example link
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{media9}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}{dumb frame}
\dots
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}{frame with sound \includemedia[
...
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Alternative to media9 package for embedding MP4 videos in LuaLaTeX PDF
I have a presentation from 2 years ago which embeds MP4 videos into a PDF document generated with LuaLaTeX using the multimedia and media9 packages. Now, two years later, the document is still ...
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Embedding Videos in Poster: media9 with baposter
I am creating a "poster" that will be displayed on a screen. A central feature of the poster will be a video that will play continuously.
I am using the baposter document class to create the poster (...
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No 3D graphic in output PDF file using media9
I want to attach a 3D file from Inventor to my pdf, I have done what was said in this comment https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/52090/1053, but after compiling pdf, I can see only origin of the 3D file, ...
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Import 3D (*.stl) model with media9 [closed]
I have seen that is possible to insert a 3d model (*.u3d) model inside a pdf. But I have some stl objects and I can't manage to insert them into a pdf.
Does anyone know a way to insert a stl file ...
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Latex Beamer - Media9 : Coloring the Mediabuttons & Playbutton
My current code is the following
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Introduction To AWS}
\hspace{-0.8cm}
\includemedia[
label=myVidPlayer,
width=10cm,height=6cm,
activate=pageopen,
addresource=1.flv,
...
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Cross-reference to “VIEW” of media9 prc content
I use the media9 package to insert a 3D model in my thesis. I created several views highlighting different parts of the model. Now when I describe the model within the text I would like to set a ...
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Multiple videos playing as a grid
Can anyone help me with multiple videos playing simultaneously in beamer ? I need to play 9 different videos as a 3x 3 grid. Any suggestions to adapt this to my problem? Thank you
beamer, media9 - ...
