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Embedded file stream does not work for Movie Annotation

Jingboxian
Registered: Feb 15 2011
Posts: 2

When i generate the pdf with respect to the PDF reference with embeded file stream of an avi file, it works file with Media Rendition but not work for Movie Annotation.
 
For the file specification, i set both F and EF. The result seems that the Media Rendition respects the EF to get the embedded resource. But when dealing with Movie Annotation, the Acrobat Reader 9.0 only try to get the file on the disk from path stored in F.
 
I know in PDF reference, there is no guide line for the F entry in Movie Annotation. I would like to know whether there is detailed rule for Acrobat on this?

My Product Information:
Reader 9.0, Windows
UVSAR
Expert
Registered: Oct 29 2008
Posts: 1357
As stated in ISO 32000:2008, Movie annotations are obsolescent and their use is no longer recommended. They are superseded by the Multimedia object framework, so you're not going to see any more information posted about them that isn't already in the documentation.

Given the removal of legacy media authoring from Acrobat X and the default blocking of legacy playback, people still creating content using the obsolete system should switch to use only multimedia objects, which in your case you know works fine.
Jingboxian
Registered: Feb 15 2011
Posts: 2
Thanks for your kind help.

When i use the multimedia rendition, do i have to manually set the apperence for each annotation or is there an easy way of displaying the first frame of the video as the "Poster" in movie annotation?
UVSAR
Expert
Registered: Oct 29 2008
Posts: 1357
The poster image has to be stored as a bitmap, it can't reference a frame in a video stream - the Video Tool in Acrobat extracts a bitmap capture automatically when you create a video annotation via the UI, but if you're creating it via code you will have to handle the extraction and embedding of a bitmap image yourself.