Is there a pdf reader that displays animations?

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I'm creating a presentation and need to include some animations. I placed the animation in the pdf file using Beamer (after storing the animation in a bunch of png files). Now, when I open the file on Okular or Evince, I don't see any animation. Searching around, I read that Evince doesn't support animations but Okular might support them. Is this true? Is there any other tool you can use?

It is told that Okular PDF is working with it. Try with sudo apt-get install okular — , Dec 21 '13 at 14:48
@Mitch Yes, but it isn't open source. Also, I find it amusing/disturbing that I cannot "enjoy" LaTeX generated files under Linux. — Yotam, Dec 21 '13 at 17:25

score 6 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

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You can use the Multimedia package to embed movies (mpg, mp4) in a way that you can play them in Okular. Minimal example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{multimedia}
\begin{document}
\movie[height = 0.6 \textwidth,width = 1.0 \textwidth]{}{animation.mpg}
\end{document}

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edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

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answered Jan 07 '14 at 17:38

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Sadly, this doesn't really work. The main disadvantage is that the movie doesn't play automatically, but there some other issues as well. – Yotam Jan 09 '14 at 14:12
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With TeX Live 2015 and Okular Version 0.24.2 this solution does not work. There are no compilation errors, but Okular only displays a blank space. – Luís de Sousa Mar 24 '17 at 13:21
Hi, I've been trying this solution with okular 1.5.3 and TeX Live 2018 and it does not work. After 4 years, do we finally have a working solution to this problem?? – the.polo Dec 02 '18 at 14:03
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@the.polo sadly no – danielleontiev Mar 29 '19 at 23:59
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@the.polo https://pdfpc.github.io/ always worked well for me. Among other things it has video playback support – Waldez Junior Oct 08 '19 at 08:03
@WaldezJunior Great suggestion. This should be an answer by itself. – Tasos Papastylianou May 10 '20 at 11:25

Is there a pdf reader that displays animations?

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