[Skim-app-users] Flash player no longer supported, what happens to media9 and Skim?

Eberhard W Lisse el at lisse.na
Sat Aug 1 19:53:44 CEST 2020


Thomas,

I have never managed to play a video inside Skim (using the multimedia and similar packages) only in Acrobat, but am very interested as it is most impressive being able to play and control videos from inside the viewer.

Pascal Brabant reads in copy, he is interested in incorporating something like this into his new SlidePilot.

greetings, el

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Sent from Dr Lisse’s iPad Mini 5
On 1 Aug 2020, 19:32 +0200, Thomas Schneider via Skim-app-users <skim-app-users at lists.sourceforge.net>, wrote:
> I just learned about
>
> https://ctan.org/pkg/media9
>
> for playing movies in a PDF. That page says:
>
> "Playback of multimedia files uses the built-in Flash Player of Adobe
> Reader and does, therefore, not depend on external plug-ins."
>
> However, Flash is going away:
>
> https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=flash+player+no+longer+supported
>
> Apparently it is to be replaced by HTML5.
>
> * What will happen to media9? Is there a replacement?
>
> * Can the Skim PDF displayer (for macOS) use HTML5?
>
> Tom
>
> Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D.
> Senior Investigator
> National Institutes of Health
> National Cancer Institute
> Center for Cancer Research
> RNA Biology Laboratory
> Biological Information Theory Group
> Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201
> schneidt at mail.nih.gov
> https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms
>
>
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