Max Köhler (Feb 22 2021 at 12:22): Max Köhler (Feb 22 2021 at 12:22):What is the recommended way to record an .avi from a Plots.jl animation?
Currently I'm recording a gif and convert it with ffmpeg to avi. Is there a built in way?
Michael Alexander (Feb 22 2021 at 14:54):When I wanted to make a movie, I basically did what you did and saved out a series of .png images, then used ffmpeg to convert them into an .mp4.
Max Köhler (Feb 22 2021 at 14:59):Turns out that my latex beamer presentation don't want to include my video. I tried mp4, avi, mov and gif. Why is LaTeX sometimes so annoying
Expanding Man (Feb 22 2021 at 15:00):don't you normally just output a pdf from beamer? it never would have occurred to me that it was even possible to include video in it
Expanding Man (Feb 22 2021 at 15:01):I suppose you could include a link and then just open it in your browser
Max Köhler (Feb 22 2021 at 15:02):It is a pdf, but the video is included, you can do it with the multimedia package which is loaded anyways by Beamer. I don't get why an old avi works but my new created ones fail. This must be related to codecs, but I have no idea about codecs 
Max Köhler (Feb 22 2021 at 15:03):even all of my installed media players can play it, doesn't make sense at all
Expanding Man (Feb 22 2021 at 15:04):hm... yeah, video in pdf sounds like it's bound to be a nightmare monstrosity to me :laughing:
Max Köhler (Feb 22 2021 at 15:04):it is, but imho theres no way to explain it without a video given the time constraints of the presentation :frown:
Expanding Man (Feb 22 2021 at 15:05):maybe just include a link to the video in the pdf? I'm pretty sure it's possible to include file system links
Max Köhler (Feb 22 2021 at 15:06):ye, using the external media player option works, just opens the default video player. But idk, I can already see zoom failing on this while I share my screen
Max Köhler (Feb 22 2021 at 15:07):it just bothers me that the old avi works flawless but the new one doesn't
Max Köhler (Feb 22 2021 at 15:43):ok -vcodec libvpx fixed it. Wow, just wasted solid 3h on this
Frederik Banning (Feb 22 2021 at 15:44):did you try sudo pacman -Syubtw? :nerd:
Max Köhler (Feb 22 2021 at 15:45):no admin permissions on the workstation :crying_cat:
mbaz (Feb 22 2021 at 16:33):In my limited experience, videos not playing in a pdf is the fault of the pdf viewer, not latex. Videos tend to play fine when seen using Acrobat on Windows.
Max Köhler (Feb 22 2021 at 16:34):you are probably right, but there are good reasons to it why linux pdf viewers are so restrictive. Lately, I had to include javascript forms into a pdf and linux pdf viewers block the javascript by default, which is actually good (considering that our university was hacked based on excel macros)
mbaz (Feb 22 2021 at 16:41):Oh yeah, I agree with you and I don't want evince to start running javascript.
My point was just that it's not Latex's fault :smile:
Max Köhler (Feb 22 2021 at 16:54):ye that's correct, sorry if my desperation made the impression that LaTeX is the reason of this issue. Luckily fixed now :tada:
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