show gif movie in beamer slide

[Dr Engelbert Buxbaum]

Hi,

for one of my beamer-lectures I would like to show a gif-movie; I tried
movie-15. Unfortunately that doesn't work ("file not found" error).
Which other format could I use, and how do I convert?

Thanks in advance

Engelbert

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[orod...@gmail.com]

My suggestion is: forget about including a movie in your beamer. It is always OS dependent (besides being Acroread version dependent). It is much easier to create a webpage with your GIF (which is 100% OS independent) and add a link to it from your beamer. Here it follows an example of such link:

\begin{frame}

\frametitle{Beamer topic}

\begin{center}
\scalebox{1}{\textit{Movie:}}\pdfstartlink attr{/c [1 1 1] /Border [0 0 0]} user{
/Subtype /Link /A << /Type /Action /S /Launch /F (webpage.html) >> }
{some text with LaTeX code} \pdfendlink
\end{center}

\end{frame}

If for some reason you still want a movie in your beamer here it follows some code to do it:

\begin{frame}

\frametitle{Beamer topic}

Some text...

\flashmovie[width=7cm,height=7cm]{amovie.swf}

\end{frame}

As you can see it includes a SWF (not a GIF) movie. And it requires flasmovie.sty (and no guarantee to work on all OSes).

Good luck with it.

Best regards

Tordar

[Alexander Grahn]

Am Montag, 8. April 2013 19:56:58 UTC+2 schrieb Dr Engelbert Buxbaum:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> for one of my beamer-lectures I would like to show a gif-movie; I tried
>
> movie-15. Unfortunately that doesn't work ("file not found" error).
>
> Which other format could I use, and how do I convert?

Movie15 is obsolete, use package media9 for embedding videos in the FLV, H.264 or SWF formats. See, e. g. http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/102600

Another option is the animate package that allows you to animate a bitmap sequence (in PNG or JPEG formats with pdflatex, Postscript format with latex+dvips+ps2pdf). This bitmap sequence can be obtained by splitting an existing animated gif into its constituent frames. (Gif is not a supported format in Adobe Reader).

gifsicle --unoptimize animated.gif tmp.gif
convert tmp.gif frame.png

For animating the obtained sequence frame-0.png, frame-1.png, etc. using the animate package, see

http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/99361

or using a size optimized animated gif, see

http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/107508

Alex