[tex-live] movie15 and media9

[Zdenek Wagner]

2012/3/18 Horst Hohberger <horst at sjtu.edu.cn>:
> Sorry for butting into the discussion, but I feel confused. Is it actually the case that
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> 1) movie15 and/or media9 is not using any proprietary components and is available under a "sensible" FOSS license
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> and
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> 2) the output of movie15 and/or media9 uses certain features of PDF that are part of the ISO standard
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> but
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> 3) said features haven't been implemented by any viewer except Adobe's?
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> And it should still be excluded from TeXLive because of 3) ? I understand the logic of excluding proprietary software, but out seems strange (to put it mildly) to use 3) as a basis for exclusion.
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I have not tried movie9 but files created by movie15 work with AR7 on
Linux. AR can freely be downloaded. I have seen AR included on many
CD's with other products, maybe it would even be legal to distribute
it with TL (I do not know, I have not studied the license).

> Please do tell me if I have misunderstood a facet of the argument. This is the voice of a typical user, not a developer or TeX wizard.
>
> Horst
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>
>
> On Mar 18, 2012, at 11:02 PM, Pablo Rodríguez wrote:
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>> Just in case it helps (and I understood the issues here).
>>
>> Alexander Grahn (both movie1.5 and media9 author) has send a message to
>> the poppler mailing list
>> (http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2012-March/008780.html)
>> to integrate media9 in poppler. (I'm subscribed to the list, just in
>> case anyone wonders.)
>>
>> And TLContrib (http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/) seems to be the right
>> repository for stuff that isn't part of CTAN.
>>
>> Just in case it might help,
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>>
>> Pablo
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>>
>> On 18/03/12 10:20, Victor Ivrii wrote:
>>> I noticed today that movie15 is supposed to be removed from texlive
>>> distribution: quick look at CTAN revealed that it is obsolete and will
>>> be succeeded by media9. Unfortunately media9 has not made its way into
>>> texlive yet―so anyone who needs movie15 should wait before updating.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Victor
>>
>> --
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> Dr. Horst Hohberger
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> Lecturer for Mathematics
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> University of Michigan - Shanghai Jiaotong University Joint Institute
> 上海交通大学密西根学院
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