[poppler] Movie support

[Hugo Mercier]

2008/1/8, Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr at pdfsages.com>:
>  Great!!   I am excited to finally see another viewer (other than
> Acrobat/Reader) do Multimedia!   This will most certainly help to
> demonstrate to users that PDF is more than just "static paper"!
>

Thanks for your interest.

Embedded movies or 3D are good and underused PDF features, except the
fact that you can "embed" every possible media in a PDF, even files
that cannot be read on a particular system, making the PDF file not
portable.

Maybe Adobe should impose a particular *open* format and codec for
videos and sound inclusion in PDF (imposing a closed format would be a
worse solution)

> FYI - Acrobat/Reader supports movies on all platforms for which we deply -
> Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, etc.
>

Really ? I know it is working under Windows and OSX, but correct me if
I'm wrong, Adobe Reader doesn't support movie playback under Linux: it
redirects to Adobe's website that says no plugin is available.