Streaming YouTube Videos in PDF!

Martin Luxton

15 years ago

Hi Sean,

Looks very interesting but Youtube is banned here. Got any examples with Vimeo, etc?

Martin

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Sean Kelly 15 years ago

Originally Posted by Martin Luxton

Hi Sean,

Looks very interesting but Youtube is banned here. Got any examples with Vimeo, etc?

Martin

Hi Martin, when you say 'banned' do you mean it's banned for your IP or region? It's working ok here.. did you see any specific message?

I'll create a vimeo version as soon as the youtube version is working perfectly. We have the option of using the youtube api so the youtube logo is not displayed and some view stats from youtube can also be displayed in the pdf flv-viewer.

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- Lawrh 15 years ago
  
  Works fine for me, although the tune is obnoxious. BTW, Adobe Acrobat reader is not required. As I avoid bloatware whenever I can, I use Foxit reader. The stream worked perfectly.
  
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- Marty S 15 years ago
  
  Dude, I was just working on trying to solve this problem using Acrobat Pro 9 - it doesn't do it, so KUDOS to you for trying.
  
  The download and streaming worked fine on my end.
  
  Now let me ask you - If I create a PDF in AA9 then bring it into PDF printer pro, I can then add a streaming video? By streaming, I also mean from my private video host like WebVideoZone.
  
  I have a small ebook I can use this for right now with embedded video. so let me know when you release it and I can provide you a real-world example.
  
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Aronya

15 years ago

Worked fine for me. My only complaint would be that annoying spinning wheel that stays in the middle of the screen until the video download is complete. It kept interrupting my view of that blonde!

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Sean Kelly

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Aronya

Worked fine for me. My only complaint would be that annoying spinning wheel that stays in the middle of the screen until the video download is complete. It kept interrupting my view of that blonde!

Hmmm.. the spinning wheel should only stay there until the initial buffer is filled.. perhaps there is a bug.. I'm looking into it and will fix it.

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Chuck Evans

15 years ago

Sean,

Downloaded and tested on my iMac and the only there was a link to your product.

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Sean Kelly

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Chuck Evans

Sean,

Downloaded and tested on my iMac and the only there was a link to your product.

chuck

Hi Chuck! I'm trying it on my MacMini right now.. it's running OSX.. I'll be back in a minute or two with my results.. thanks for the feedback!

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Marty S

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Sean Kelly

Hi Chuck! I'm trying it on my MacMini right now.. it's running OSX.. I'll be back in a minute or two with my results.. thanks for the feedback!

Sean

I thought it might be an issue with "Preview" the iMac default PDF viewer, so I then opened it with Acrobat 9, and it did recognize that there was a video, since I had to click "approve to view the flash", however it got stuck on the buffering, actually never started, so something still not quite right there.

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Sean Kelly

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Marty S

I thought it might be an issue with "Preview" the iMac default PDF viewer, so I then opened it with Acrobat 9, and it did recognize that there was a video, since I had to click "approve to view the flash", however it got stuck on the buffering, actually never started, so something still not quite right there.

Hi Marty, what you're saying is exactly the same as I've just read on the Adobe forums here: Adobe Forums: Swf in PDF does not play on MAC

There are two ways to embed Flash in PDFs and it seems I'm using the 'legacy' way. I'll change my code and use the new 'rendition' method. Then it should work on the Mac as well.

Man I'm happy we found this.. well done everyone!

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Martin Luxton

15 years ago

Hi Sean,

Youtube is banned in Turkey.

Just had a thought. Can you add a proxy to the pdf link?

Might be a selling point as it's not just countries that ban video watching

Martin

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Sean Kelly

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Martin Luxton

Hi Sean,

Youtube is banned in Turkey.

Just had a thought. Can you add a proxy to the pdf link?

Might be a selling point as it's not just countries that ban video watching

Martin

Hi Martin, you can use any Url so if you have a proxy that will passthrough the stream it should work for you.

eg: http://fakeproxysite.com/?url=http:/...om/somev-id-id

Right now I'm focusing on making sure this thing just works. Adobe PDFs are a nightmare under the hood.

Sean

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Marty S

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Chuck Evans

Sean,

Downloaded and tested on my iMac and the only there was a link to your product.

chuck

Yes, me too. Worked fine on my PC but no video link on my iMac.

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Steve Diamond

15 years ago

Works fine in AR 8.1 on Vista 32-bit. AR pops up a permission dialog that lets me choose to block it, play it once, or add the document to the "trusted" list. The spinning wheel shows for just a few seconds, until the buffer is maybe 5% full. Then it starts playing. But I have a very fast cable connection (about 16 - 20 mbits/sec). For slower connections, the buffering rules may require more of a buffer before playing.

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Sean Kelly

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Steve Diamond

Works fine in AR 8.1 on Vista 32-bit. AR pops up a permission dialog that lets me choose to block it, play it once, or add the document to the "trusted" list. The spinning wheel shows for just a few seconds, until the buffer is maybe 5% full. Then it starts playing. But I have a very fast cable connection (about 16 - 20 mbits/sec). For slower connections, the buffering rules may require more of a buffer before playing.

Thanks Steve, thats an excellent point about the buffering, I'll add this as well as its important to have as smooth a playback as possible.

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Lawrh

15 years ago

It's interesting that some have buffering issues. I only have a 3 Mbit/sec DSL connection and the stream was flawless. Perhaps it may be network congestion with the ISP.

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Sean Kelly

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Lawrh

It's interesting that some have buffering issues. I only have a 3 Mbit/sec DSL connection and the stream was flawless. Perhaps it may be network congestion with the ISP.

Yes, it might be a YouTube thing, I had a problem only one time today, the stream was a bit slow but every other time it worked just fine like you said.

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Dave OSullivan

15 years ago

Works perfect here on XP with Adobe 8.1

No buffer issues at all, very smooth.

Dave.

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Sean Kelly 15 years ago

Originally Posted by Dave OSullivan

Works perfect here on XP with Adobe 8.1

No buffer issues at all, very smooth.

Dave.

I have the same result here but I have a super high speed internet connection because I get my TV through my phone line as well. It's ADSL v2 I think.

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Sean Kelly

15 years ago

Hi Chuck, yes I can confirm that in the Mac the Flash does not play inside the PDF. I see the 'videoPlayer.swf' text but when I click on it nothing happens.

I even saved the PDF to the desktop and nada.. same result. Maybe Mac PDF readers don't support Flash yet. I'll add this to my list.

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severt

15 years ago

Works great here with Adobe Reader 8.1

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manicman1 15 years ago

Pretty cool

any idea what the WSO cost will be when you launch?

can I stream video from other location other than youtube?
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- Sean Kelly 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by manicman1
  
  Pretty cool
  
  any idea what the WSO cost will be when you launch?
  
  can I stream video from other location other than youtube?
  
  This is just a Flash file that I'm coding. The PDF converter can embed Flash right now. You can use your own if you like. The flash player that I'm building & including can use any server url. You get the flash source with the product and can build the flash yourself with your own url and further custom changes.
  
  I have no plans for a WSO as the product price is under $20 already.
  
  This is a cool idea, but it's no good if it does not work, that's why I'm asking for a little help here.
  
  Again, to reiterate, and to make sure this thread is not nuked, please DO NOT buy this product, it is not ready.
  
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Sean Kelly

15 years ago

Hi Marty,

As requested via PM attached is an example PDF with your Poker video in it streamed from web video player dot com.

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Marty S 15 years ago

Originally Posted by Sean Kelly

Hi Marty,

As requested via PM attached is an example PDF with your Poker video in it streamed from web video player dot com.

Sean

Thank you. Works perfect on the PC, still nothing on the iMac. This is streamed from webvideozone if anyone is interested. (Language warning in video however...oops!) Very exiting! When you get the Mac OSX working, it would be a good time to raise your price, because there is ZERO competition with this feature right now.
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Martin Luxton 15 years ago

Hi Sean,

Just watched Marty's video (I'm running XP).

Loaded almost immediately (about 2 seconds' buffering).

Picture and sound quality very good.

Thumbs up!

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- Stefan Vee 15 years ago
  
  Pretty cool!
  Works fine.
  Windows Vista - Adobe Reader 9
  
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  This is preety awesome, worked fine for me. It did take about 20-25 seconds to load but def. works. I've got Adobe reader 9.
  
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Harry Behrens

15 years ago

Worked fine for me - first time I've seen anything like that

That's definitely going to be catching on soon, I don't doubt.

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Fernando Veloso

15 years ago

Sean,

Everything fine in this end, WinXP and Acrobat Reader 9.

Is it possible to insert Camtasia videos hosted in my own server? Or that way they stay "public available"?

Fernando

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Josh Anderson

15 years ago

Slider bar is a little buggy, full screen does not work, Far right about button thingy opens buttons that do not work, and video plays in a loop. Other than that it seems to work quite nicely.

Also for anyone reading this thread who may not be aware you can embed audio and video in PDF documents and remotely host them as well. This is a standard feature of Adobe Acrobat... but the player that pulls in the YT video is a nice twist.

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Marty S

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Josh Anderson

Also for anyone reading this thread who may not be aware you can embed audio and video in PDF documents and remotely host them as well. This is a standard feature of Adobe Acrobat... but the player that pulls in the YT video is a nice twist.

Interesting. Josh, can you show an example of this? The forums at Adobe and Apple cannot produce this - believe me - I have asked. The documentation alludes to it in Acrobat, but nobody in that forum has been able to figure it out. I also went through ALL the tutorials at Adobe and Lynda regarding this and neither show that it can be done.

To be clear, I am particularly talking about streaming from another source inside a PDF document, NOT downloading the video with the PDF.

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Josh Anderson

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Marty S

Interesting. Josh, can you show an example of this? The forums at Adobe and Apple cannot produce this - believe me - I have asked. The documentation alludes to it in Acrobat, but nobody in that forum has been able to figure it out. I also went through ALL the tutorials at Adobe and Lynda regarding this and neither show that it can be done.

To be clear, I am particularly talking about streaming from another source inside a PDF document, NOT downloading the video with the PDF.

In the location just type an absolute url (including http://) when embedding media.

Here is a tutorial I put out 3 years ago showing how to put media in PDF. Its using Adobe Acrobat 6 pro but the concepts are essentially the same:

How to Add Video and Audio to a PDF document

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Marty S

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Josh Anderson

In the location just type an absolute url (including http://) when embedding media.

Here is a tutorial I put out 3 years ago showing how to put media in PDF. Its using Adobe Acrobat 6 pro but the concepts are essentially the same:

Ok ... just as I thought. Adobe worded this so feature badly, everyone reads the features list and thinks, "hey I can embed a youtube video". That is not correct and what you are describing here is an http: link to a particular flv file - which does work - we know that.

But that's not what this thread is about, and Sean's product is attempting to solve this issue, which for some reason, Acrobat Pro 9 cannot perform. I own it, and I tried it. That is, using a youtube web url address or embed code to play inside a PDF, hence avoiding excessive dowload times for PDFs with multiple videos.

As for your dated, but still decent tips for embedding a flash file, well Adobe Acrobat 9, and even Pages09 (free with imac) can do that in a New York minute simply by dropping a flash file in the document, but again, that's NOT what this thread is about. I know its confusing, because even on Adobe forums the issue - or feature is widely misunderstood.

So back to you Sean.... waiting...

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Josh Anderson

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Marty S

avoiding excessive dowload times for PDFs with multiple videos.

As for your dated, but still decent tips for embedding a flash file, well Adobe Acrobat 9, and even Pages09 (free with imac) can do that in a New York minute simply by dropping a flash file in the document, but again, that's NOT what this thread is about. I know its confusing, because even on Adobe forums the issue - or feature is widely misunderstood.

It may not be what the op is about but I bet a lot of people enjoy knowing more about how to put media in PDF files and I provided the additional answer you requested on how to remote host the embedded media :-)

Also there is no additional download time for the PDF itself with multiple videos if you remote host... the video only loads when you play it and you can control the trigger that plays the video IE. mouse over, on click, etc. The best way to reduce the size of a pdf you wish to deliver with media embedded in it is to remote host the media files.

The player displayed by the OP is a nice use of the YT api used to pull the video in to be displayed by the swf.

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Marty S

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Josh Anderson

It may not be what the op is about but I bet a lot of people enjoy knowing more about how to put media in PDF files and I provided the additional answer after you asked me about how to remote host the media :-)

Also there is no additional download time for the PDF itself with multiple videos if you remote host... the video only loads when you play it and you can control the trigger that plays the video IE. mouse over, on click, etc. The best way to reduce the size of a pdf you wish to deliver with media embedded in it is to remote host the media files.

The player displayed by the OP is a nice use of the YT api used to pull the video in.

Again, not the answer for this thread, (YOUTUBE!!!) but good plugging for you - I understand!

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Sipboy3000 15 years ago

It worked perfect for me.

This looks very interesting.

Since video is all the rage, this looks like a very promising way to share video content.

You think I could use them on document sharing websites like Scribd or Docstoc?
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- Sean Kelly 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Sipboy3000
  
  It worked perfect for me.
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  You think I could use them on document sharing websites like Scribd or Docstoc?
  
  Unfortunately not since those sites convert the PDF into Flash, here is the PDF (Flash is broken) on Scribd:
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  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.
  
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Sean Kelly

15 years ago

Marty, Martin, Stefan, Heman, Harry, Fernando, Josh, Gail, Astaga, Gary, SityWyde, Keith and Brian thank you ALL for your feedback (good and bad), I really appreciate it, I mean that.

So far its working fine in Windows but there is a problem with Flash on the Mac.

I'm delighted it works on Foxit reader as well, thanks for checking it out

The 'Fullscreen' will be removed from the Flv Player because it does not work when the flash player is embedded inside a PDF.
This seems to be a PDF limitation. I have code that will make PDFs open in fullscreen but that is something different, this is a 'flash in pdf' problem.

"Camtasia videos hosted in my own server?"
Yes, you can stream your video content from any server not only Youtube.

"part of the video is blocked from view."
Thats because of the size I set for the video, it's easily fixed: All you need to do is to drag the Flash into your Word document, resize it by dragging it's edges to the desired size and launch the PDF Converter.

"will this work together with your ViralPDF?"
ViralPDF rebrands text, links (and images soon), it would be easy to add video as well.

For YouTube you can stream the content directly (as seen in the PDF above) or you can use their API. If you use API the YouYube logo is not displayed and you can display viewer stats as well. I'm almost finished with the Flash player and it can stream with and without the YouTube API.

PDF Printer Pro can already embed video (.avi, .mov, .mp4, .mpeg, .swf, .flv) and audio (.mp3, .midi, .iff, .aiff, .smil), this thread is focused on getting streaming content working not embedded video and audio since that works already.
I don't know of any other PDF Converter that can create multimedia PDFs from your Word documents. Not even Acrobat Pro last time I tried it, you had to edit your PDF manually to add the video and audio afterwards.

Something to note is that Acrobat Reader will display a message any time you want to play multimedia in your PDF. This is Adobe, this is how it works and there is nothing I can do about this.

Things left to do:
1. Make it work on Mac (already started working on this). [Tricky but doable, ETA 2 to 3 days]
2. Don't auto-play [minor]
3. Switch off the looping [minor]
4. Complete the menu. (not coded yet) [minor]

Whats also cool is that if you have a transparent background you can embed a video of yourself that makes it look like you are walking around the PDF page.
You can have rotating banners, games, quizzes or anything you can dream of all thanks to Flash.

Yesterday I tried to create a subscription form in Flash but it did not submit the values entered. If it's not limited by the PDF reader I'll make it work. That would be nice as well and I'll include the Flash file for this.

Attached is a PDF with streaming content that works on my Mac. The Flash Player was added using with Acrobat Pro on the Mac so now we have proof it can work on the Mac, just need to get it working in the PDF Converter now

The main problem I see with this version is that it asks for user confirmation every time i tries to access a web resource. Damn annoying.

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Marty S

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Sean Kelly

Attached is a PDF with streaming content that works on my Mac. The Flash Player was added using with Acrobat Pro on the Mac so now we have proof it can work on the Mac, just need to get it working in the PDF Converter now

The main problem I see with this version is that it asks for user confirmation every time i tries to access a web resource. Damn annoying.

Yes Sean this worked on my iMac when i Opened with A9, but it did not work with Preview. Web access clicking took numerous responses from me to get it to play - that is annoying.

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Gail Sober

15 years ago

When I saved and opened the file I got this message

You have opened a document that contains Adobe(R) Flash(R) Player multimedia content. You can decide whether to play content now and also set options to do when you open this document in the future.

[] Play the multimedia content this one time
[] Play the multimedia content and add this document to my list of trusted documents

Normally, I would have just closed it at that point unless I really trusted the source. I'm usually overly cautious regarding those kinds of things but I went ahead and did it this time and it played fine.

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astaga

15 years ago

Hey Sean,
They worked fine for me. I'm on Vista Home. Tried both Adobe 9 as well as Foxit Reader. PDF document opened almost immediately, then the video started playing about 6 seconds later. All smooth, no jerky scenes.

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Gary Killops

15 years ago

Windows Vista and Adobe Reader 8.1 worked fine fo me. Very cool.

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sitywyde

15 years ago

Sorry, but nothing happened for me, just a blank screen

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Keith Choy

15 years ago

hi Sean,

Worked fine in my test here on Win XP, Acrobat Reader 9.1.2 and 1Mbps link.

I noticed:
- the video loop back. Is there a way to stop this?

- part of the video is blocked from view.

- instead of auto-play, it would be good if this can be played manually

Btw, will this work together with your ViralPDF?

- Keith Choy

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briguy

15 years ago

Sean,

Hey there. No problems at all. I create PDFS like this at work for training purposes and it goes over well.

Trainees appreciate being able to have a folder of small PDF files, yet still have access training videos by simply opening the file.

Good luck!
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Project-Octagon

15 years ago

Hey Sean, That was pretty neat. Never seen a pdf video like that. I got a pop up prompt upon entry to press play and it was a very smooth transistion to the video. Good job!

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Keith Choy

15 years ago

Hi Sean,

I just tested on another machine with:
- Win Vista
- Acrobat Reader 8.1.6

With this combination, I am not able to disabled the video. Not sure if there are any other folks having this same issue. The error message that I got is as shown below:

"This file appears to use a new format that this version of Acrobat does not support. It may not open or display correctly. Adobe recommends that you upgrade to the latest version of our Acrobat products."

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mylelo 15 years ago

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

15 years ago

Hey Sean,
Nice one. When will this available?

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

And do you think it can be further improved to maybe.. including flash videos?

Basically the file work fine on my pc ..
Windows XP, Foxit reader, just take a little longer to buffer and load the complete video compare to Youtube direct.

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John Hocking

15 years ago

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

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Sean Kelly

15 years ago

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

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Jim Phillips

15 years ago

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.

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Jim

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Sean Kelly

15 years ago

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

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Jim Phillips 15 years ago

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
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russellprisco

15 years ago

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Very neat, and very funny video lol...

Is this your product?

~Russell Prisco =)

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desertfish

15 years ago

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

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innocent07 Banned 15 years ago

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) ?
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- Sean Kelly 15 years ago
  
  "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!
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tj

15 years ago

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

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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.

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tj

15 years ago

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

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MemberWing

15 years ago

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

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Ray Erdmann

15 years ago

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.

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Sean Kelly

15 years ago

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

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Sean Kelly

15 years ago

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.

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MemberWing

15 years ago

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.

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Sean Kelly

15 years ago

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:

Code:

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