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<p><font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Hi
Kevin,</font></font></p>
<p><font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">You
have been very helpful, as always. My client decided to
follow your advice and use the attachment feature.</font></font></p>
<p><font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Thanks.</font></font><br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Bob Stayton
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bobs@sagehill.net">bobs@sagehill.net</a></pre>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/21/2020 12:43 PM,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:kevin@renderx.com">kevin@renderx.com</a> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It could be that when you run Adobe
Acrobat, you are inserting a video that gets converted in some
way … like it is played using Flash player.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Are you on iOS by any chance?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I will note that I did not click any video
insert tool, I merely ran acrobat and dragged the video into
the edit area which launched a wizard (possibly the same one).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The proper mimetype is “video/mp4”.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The reason I suspect the video is converted
is that if you get then a message stating that you need a
plug-in to play the RenderX one, that is suspect.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Can you play the video raw?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I replicated this in my setup below by
testing an alternate video that actually was mp2 and I got a
Windows Store message to download and install the codec to
support mp2.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I then tried to play the video and I got
the same message as the built-in Windows media player is my
default player.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So, it is all unclear to me as much of the
multi-media stuff and not much used in PDF.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But file attachments as I suggested are
widely used, even now we have customized solutions where the
XML to generate the PDF is injected into the PDF.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kevin<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Xep-support
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 21, 2020 12:25 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'RenderX Community Support List'
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<b>Subject:</b> [xep-support] Re: how to embed an mp4
video in PDF?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So, I went through many things here and I
do not believe this is a “RenderX” issue, I believe this is
some Adobe settings issue.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To test I created one PDF with RenderX and
one using Adobe Acrobat using the exact same video.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At first, I could not get anything to play
at all … Adobe would open and when the video was selected to
play, Adobe would just crash.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This happens for both the RenderX one and
Adobe’s own one.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I then changed some settings in Acrobat to
enable protected mode at startup (which is in Security
Enhanced) and then both would play but Audio only.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The important point here is that both
behave exactly the same.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There is nothing in RenderX that is in the
pure Adobe solution and it yields the exact same result for
me.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now, no video but audio is strange as it
could be I am missing some codec to display the video on my
machine … but I do not think so.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I converted the MP4 to a few other formats
and went through this exact process and got the exact same
result.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">No video, just audio.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I can also double click the video and it
plays in my media player without issue.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So, might I suggest using file annotations
as I would think that is actually a better way to do it
anyway. Then the recipient can view the video in their own
way, whatever is the default player on their machine.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="background:white;text-autospace:none"><span
style="color:black">To do this, one could do like this:<br>
<br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times
New
Roman",serif;color:#000096;background:white;mso-highlight:white"><rx:pdf-comment</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:#F5844C;background:white;mso-highlight:white">
title</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:#FF8040;background:white;mso-highlight:white">=</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:#993300;background:white;mso-highlight:white">"Video
Attachement"</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:#F5844C;background:white;mso-highlight:white">
content</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:#FF8040;background:white;mso-highlight:white">=</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:#993300;background:white;mso-highlight:white">"A
video"</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:#000096;background:white;mso-highlight:white">></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black;background:white;mso-highlight:white"><br>
</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:#000096;background:white;mso-highlight:white"><rx:pdf-file-attachment</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:#F5844C;background:white;mso-highlight:white">
src</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:#FF8040;background:white;mso-highlight:white">=</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:#993300;background:white;mso-highlight:white">"url('SampleVideo_1280x720_1mb.mp4')"</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black;background:white;mso-highlight:white"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times
New
Roman",serif;color:#F5844C;background:white;mso-highlight:white">
filename</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:#FF8040;background:white;mso-highlight:white">=</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:#993300;background:white;mso-highlight:white">"SampleVideo.mp4"</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black;background:white;mso-highlight:white"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times
New
Roman",serif;color:#F5844C;background:white;mso-highlight:white">
icon-type</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:#FF8040;background:white;mso-highlight:white">=</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:#993300;background:white;mso-highlight:white">"paperclip"</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:#000096;background:white;mso-highlight:white">/></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black;background:white;mso-highlight:white"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times
New
Roman",serif;color:#000096;background:white;mso-highlight:white"></rx:pdf-comment></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;background:white;mso-highlight:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>
This would attach the video inside the PDF and double-clicking
the icon will launch an external viewer appropriate for the
filename extension.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You can use the same method to embed Word,
Excel … just about any filetype you wish.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You can also expose the “Attachments” bar
in Adobe Reader to see the attachment and launch from there.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kevin Brown<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">RenderX<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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moz-do-not-send="true">xep-support-bounces@renderx.com</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Bob Stayton<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 14, 2020 3:21 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> RenderX Community Support List <<a
href="mailto:xep-support@renderx.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">xep-support@renderx.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [xep-support] how to embed an mp4 video in
PDF?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">I
have a client who wants to embed an MP4 video into the PDF
generated by DocBook and XEP, but I'm not having much luck.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">I
followed the XEP User Guide, and so I insert an
rx:media-object element in an fo:block for the video.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><rx:media-object
xmlns:rx=<a href="http://www.renderx.com/XSL/Extensions"
moz-do-not-send="true">"http://www.renderx.com/XSL/Extensions"</a>
embed="true" show-controls="true" src="url(<a
href="file:///C:/xml/video_files/video2.mp4"
moz-do-not-send="true">file:///C:/xml/video_files/video2.mp4</a>)"
width="100%" height="auto" content-width="scale-to-fit"
content-height="scale-to-fit" content-type="auto"/></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">I
also included the following pdf-version processing
instruction at the top of the FO:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><?xml
version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><br>
<?xep-pdf-pdf-version 1.5?><br>
<fo:root xmlns:fo=<a
href="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
moz-do-not-send="true">"http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"</a>
...</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">When
I process the .fo file with XEP 4.24, it seems the video is
included in the generated PDF file, because the XEP process
does not report an error, and the file size indicates the
video is included (very large file).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">But
the presentation of the video in the PDF is useless. I just
get a Play button that looks like an arrow inside an
ellipse. When I press the Play button in Adobe Acrobat Pro
9, I get a "Multimedia Player Finder" popup that says:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">"The
media requires an additional player. Please click 'Get
Media Player' to download the correct media player."</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">I
thought the issue might be the content-type attribute, but
every variation I try results in the same display. Here is
what I tried:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">content-type="content:video/mp4"<br>
content-type="video/mp4"<br>
content-type="content:video/mpeg"<br>
content-type="video/mpeg"<br>
content-type="content:auto"<br>
content-type="auto"</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">I
can demonstrate that Acrobat Pro 9 supports mp4 videos by
manually inserting the video into the same PDF file using
the menu items Tools > Multimedia > Video Tool. That
inserts the video, displays the video controls, and allows
me to successfully play the video in the reader.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">So
I want XEP to be able to embed the video the way Acrobat Pro
9 does. I think I'm missing some crucial detail.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<pre>Bob Stayton<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Sagehill Enterprises<o:p></o:p></pre>
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