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Adding movie: embed it or stream it?

noki
Registered: May 14 2007
Posts: 2

What's better when adding a movie to a PDF, to embed it in the file or stream it from a website? Thanks — JG

pdftrainer
Expert
Registered: Dec 14 2005
Posts: 180
Well, it depends. Will your users always have a connection to the internet? If so, then you might as well link to the stream.

If the file is distributed on CD or your user don't have an internet connection, then embed. If you don't know, embed.

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heymarchetti
Registered: Mar 15 2006
Posts: 1
I'd recommend taking a look at http://www.bcpictures.com/ for ideas. The author/webmaster Bob Connelly recently spoke about Rich Media at the PDF/Cre8 conference in Orlando...