Streaming YouTube Videos in PDF!

[mylelo]

I just tested and seems to be working great, I enjoyed the girls dancing.

[Sipboy3000]

Originally Posted by Sean Kelly

Unfortunately not since those sites convert the PDF into Flash, here is the PDF (Flash is broken) on Scribd:
Streaming YouTube Video in PDF

Sean

Dang! That would have been really cool if it worked.

Hopefully one day it will work.

I have been using document sharing websites to get targeted traffic and I was thinking I could drive a visitor straight to a check out page by providing the link inside the document.

I still think it could work in other ways though. You could give away some free content inside a pdf and drive a viewer straight to the checkout page for an upsell from inside the document. Sounds like a really cool idea.

Thanks for sharing.

[John Hocking]

The video worked fine for me in Adobe Reader 9.0. I was prompted to allow multimedia content to play.

[Sean Kelly]

The Flash Player is now ready. It can stream from any url and use the YouTube api.

We are working on three fronts now:
1. Update the product to support Mac OSX
2. Add support for web players that have their own player controls (play, pause, etc)
3. Add support for YouTube private viewing

Its looking like the OSX Preview tool does not support Flash in PDF in any shape or form which is a real shame. This would mean OSX people need to install the Adobe PDF Reader to view the Flash in PDF files.

Many thanks to everyone of you for your fantastic support!

Sean

[Jim Phillips]

Hi Sean,

That really looks good.

So basically you are embedding the chomeless player in a Flash application,
then using ActionScripts to tell it what to do.

All this by using youtube's API's.

Then embed the Flash app into word. Convert that into a PDF.

Very cool. Good idea.

Best Regards,

Jim

[Sean Kelly]

Originally Posted by Jim Phillips

Hi Sean,

That really looks good.

So basically you are embedding the chomeless player in a Flash application,
then using ActionScripts to tell it what to do.

All this by using youtube's API's.

Then embed the Flash app into word. Convert that into a PDF.

Very cool. Good idea.

Best Regards,

Jim

Hi Jim, actually I'm embedding a Flash Player I wrote with a guy I know into the PDF.
The Flash Player contains the controls that define what the movie should do.

If you have Acrobat Pro you can go through the hassle of doing it yourself

We're adding support for YouTube private video viewing and embedded web players right now. That's about 10 days work. I'm personally writing a page where people can fill in their source video url and it spits out the swf Flash file with the correct Url in it. I'll post the link here for free when it's ready.

Sean

[Jim Phillips]

Hi Sean,

Thanks for your effort.

I'm looking forward to when you are finished. Will you be adding these
various features to PDF Printer Pro?

Have a great week.

Best Regards,

Jim

[russellprisco]

Worked In Adobe 9.1 On Vista 64

Very neat, and very funny video lol...

Is this your product?

~Russell Prisco =)

[desertfish]

hi, when we need to use PDF FILES? I often hear of it,but not sure where and when we can use?

[innocent07]

When you see the video via the pdf, is it played/streamed via the internet connection? (From a host) ?

or can we view ths ebook Offline, and the video will still play?

(ie is the video embedded in the ebook, or just plays off a host) ?

[Sean Kelly]

"Will you be adding these various features to PDF Printer Pro?" - Jim

Yes, PDF Printer Pro can already embed videos, audio and flash but Mac OSX is having a problem playing the Flash. I'm reworking our code so Flash in PDF also works on the Mac.

"Is this your product?" - Russell

Thanks for the kind words Yes this is my product.

"when we need to use PDF FILES?" - desertfish

That's a good question and you'll find the answer to that here in hundreds of posts on the WarriorForum

"When you see the video via the pdf, is it played/streamed via the internet connection? (From a host)?" - innocent07

The examples attached to this thread stream the content from your own server or YouTube so the PDF files are only 86Kb in size even though they play full length high quality video.

"can we view ths ebook Offline, and the video will still play?"

Yes, you can also embed Videos directly into your PDF files. This makes your PDF files huge but only a fraction larger than the video itself.

I have created a page where you can customise the player, enter your own Url or YouTube url and create your own streaming Flash player.
This player can be put on your website, but was created as part of the PDF Printer Pro product. The idea is that you customise the Flash Player to stream content from a Url of your own choosing and then embed that Flash player in your PDF using PDF Printer Pro.

Here is the Url to create your custom player:
http://pdfprinterpro.com/download/in...ideo-streamer/

It's not going to be publicly available and free like this for long, I'm only making it available because we are in Beta right now.

I'd be happy to hear your comments (good and bad) on this.

Thanks!
Sean

[tj]

Sean, the links for Ghostscript on your website are not working anymore. You can find the updated links here Obtaining GPL Ghostscript 8.64 .

Timo

[tj]

Forgot to ask - does the new version (and newer versions of GS ) work with PDF Printer together?

Timo

[MemberWing]

May I ask a simple question:

Can I embed JPG/GIF image into PDF but have it automatically loaded and shown from an external website?

Gleb

[Ray Erdmann]

Sean,

The PDF downloaded fast, which was to be expected. Then once the file was opened, I was asked for confirmation on allowing the video to play...
<Don't recall the exact wording, but I'm sure you know what I'm talking about>

All in all, I like the fact that there's a way to insert video into a PDF and can already see a few potential ways of using it.

Thanks,


Ray

[Sean Kelly]

Originally Posted by tj

Sean, the links for Ghostscript on your website are not working anymore. You can find the updated links here Obtaining GPL Ghostscript 8.64 .

Timo

Hi Timo,

Hey thanks for letting me know about the links, I updated them 2 weeks ago and they worked but I guess wisc.edu changed their pages. I've fixed them now

"...does the new version (and newer versions of GS ) work with PDF Printer together?"

Yes, all versions from 8.50+ work with PDF Printer. It made sense to use this toolkit since it creates a 'basic' PDF and saved me about 2 years of coding. I then created the code to add hyperlinks, bookmarks, watermarks, security, encryption, viewer and pdf preferences, metadata, attachments, audio, video, etc to the PDFs. That project started over 4.5 years ago now.

Sean

[Sean Kelly]

Originally Posted by MemberWing

May I ask a simple question:

Can I embed JPG/GIF image into PDF but have it automatically loaded and shown from an external website?

Gleb

Hi Gleb, sure, embed a Flash movie in your PDF that loads the images from the external website. You can rotate your images, make them clickable, animate them, move them around, anything you want really by using Flash in the PDF.

Sean

[Sean Kelly]

Originally Posted by Ray Erdmann

Sean,

The PDF downloaded fast, which was to be expected. Then once the file was opened, I was asked for confirmation on allowing the video to play...
<Don't recall the exact wording, but I'm sure you know what I'm talking about>

All in all, I like the fact that there's a way to insert video into a PDF and can already see a few potential ways of using it.

Thanks,
Ray

Hi Ray!

Yes Acrobat had the idea that it would be a good idea to 'warn' the user any time multimedia plays in a PDF or an internet connection is made. It's annoying but luckly there is a way to 'remember' your choice so you don't keep getting asked all the time.

I find these Acrobat 'warnings' can be a source of confusion as people often don't read the message and will click 'Cancel' without realising what they have just done.

Sean

[MemberWing]

Hi Sean,
The problem with this approach is security warning dialog about embedded flash.
Any other way to do it with just a simple image?
Or PDF format just won't know how to render image/HTML from external source?

Originally Posted by Sean Kelly

Hi Gleb, sure, embed a Flash movie in your PDF that loads the images from the external website. You can rotate your images, make them clickable, animate them, move them around, anything you want really by using Flash in the PDF.

Sean

[Sean Kelly]

Originally Posted by MemberWing

The problem with this approach is security warning dialog about embedded flash.
Any other way to do it with just a simple image?
Or PDF format just won't know how to render image/HTML from external source?

Hi Gleb,

This security warning is how Adobe have coded their PDF Reader, there is nothing anybody can do about this unfortunately. Clearly Adobe haven't heard about firewalls yet.

You asked about loading remote images, yes it's possible in PDF documents and you will also get a warning.

Here is an example of loading an external image:

81 0 obj
<</Subtype /Image /ColorSpace /DeviceRGB /FFilter /DCTDecode /Type /XObject /F <</FS /URL /F (http:// www. YourDomain .com /folder/image.jpg) >> /Length 0 /Height 480 /BitsPerComponent 8 /Width 640 >>
stream

endstream
endobj

Oh, and if you wanted to have somebody embed a video in your PDF for you, there guys are charging $75 a page!!
Rich Media PDFs | iPOV.net

Sean

[MemberWing]

Sean, thank you for explanation. That was my suspicion.

Gleb