PDFs with videos and animations

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Daemonax
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I recently came across this creative commons licensed physics textbook (though the license is rather restrictive, it's still nice to have a quality free textbook). It has videos and animations embedded in it apparently, which should work in abode acrobat reader.

http://www.motionmountain.net/ <-- Physics textbook

On page 123 of the first part of the book is an example of something that should be animated, but at least in xpdf and evince it doesn't work.

Anyone have any ideas as to how to get those extra things working?

AndrewT

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PDFs with animations are very rare, AFAIK, but I'm not surprised they don't work in Trisquel.

Daemonax
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They do seem to be incredibly rare, but it doesn't look like it'd be
that hard for them to enable them, as the videos in that pdf I linked to
appear just be standard mpeg videos, not sure what codec though... Even
if there was just some way to extract the videos that would be useful
for the moment.

On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 06:46 +0100, name at domain wrote:
> PDFs with animations are very rare, AFAIK, but I'm not surprised they don't
> work in Trisquel.