Hi Guys,
I've spent a few weeks on trying to insert video into a PDF and just can't
get it to work as I expect it to. Following the book I use annotations and
have tried many different file formats (mp4, wav, avi, etc). With mp4's and
all formats except swf I get a PDF that when I click on the video to play
in Adobe Reader X I get told there's no media player, I need a 3rd party
plugin and get directed to Adobe.com where I get told there's no plugin.
SWF's embed and play but the quality is low and the file size is huge.
There's no player though with a start/pause, etc. A few times I've gotten a
video to work but no sound, but it doesn't seem to be consistent at all.
In Adobe Acrobat I can click Insert Video, select an MP4 and the video gets
embedded with a nice video player and everything works perfectly and has a
small file size (close to the original mp4 file size). I tried creating my
own buttons in iText, but had the same 3rd party plugin errors. Am I
missing something? Shouldn't I bet able to embed mp4's directly into a PDF
and have them just work? They are h.264 encoded so should work!
PdfFileSpecification fs = PdfFileSpecification.fileEmbedded(writer,
targetPath.getText(), "Video", null, true);
annot = PdfAnnotation.createScreen(writer,rectangle,"HIP Video", fs,
"video/mp4", false);
writer.addAnnotation(annot);
Any help, or pointing me to a working example would be great. The book has
a swf example but the player is built into the swf file.
Sincerely,
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