[Mac OS X TeX] how to embed movies in a presentation?

[arun_mangalam at mac.com]

ConTeXt does this very well. Look at some of the docs and examples at:

http://ds035.xs4all.nl/

The odd web address is because they are currently restructuring their 
website. Anyway, I quote from their manual:

"In ConTEXt moving images or movies are handled just like figures. The 
file format type is not determined automatically yet. This means the 
user has to specify the file format."
	\externalfigure[demo.mov][label=demo,width=4cm,height=4cm,preview=yes]

ConTeXt can also do slides [a lot easier than any other package IMHO].

- Arun

On Thursday, January 10, 2002, at 11:10 AM, Guido Mocken wrote:

> I would like to create a presentation using LaTeX and the "prosper"
> package. I'm using tetex, dvips and finally ps2pdf to create a PDF that
> is suitable for Acrobat Reader. Now, I want couple of quicktime movies
> to appear on some of the slides.
>
> Browsing through Adobe's PDF-Reference, the web, several newsgroups, and
> other forums, I have found the following piece of code - which *almost*
> does the trick:
>
> \special{!
> [
> /Type /Annot
> /Subtype /Movie
> /Rect [ 200 600 440 790 ]
> /Movie
> << /F (My_Movie.mov) /Aspect [ 190 240 ] /Poster true /Rotate 0 >>
> /A
> << /ShowControls true /Volume 0.1 /Mode /Once /Rate 1.0 >>
> /ANN pdfmark
> }
>
> The only problem with this code is that all my movies appear on the
> very first slide - not on the pages where they are supposed to be.
>
> Can anyone give me a hint on how to correct for that?
> (I know a working solution for pdftex - "\pdfannot"-  but 
> unfortunately, I cannot use
> pdftex in this case, because the "prosper" package does not work in 
> pdftex.)
>
>
>         Guido
>
>
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