cannot see embedded videos

[asartori86]

hi,

I cannot see the embedded videos. I tried with the video-example.pdf provided in the readme. I get this warning/error

** (pdfpc:21498): WARNING **: movie.vala:531: Error creating control pipeline: Could not make element overlay of type cairooverlay.

I am running on gentoo with openbox. I am missing any gstreamer plugin? which one?

thanks

[AndreasBilke]

The video in the demo example uses the theora video codec IIRC. So you
should be fine with gstreamer + gstreamer-good plugins.

You can see the dependency list for debian here:

https://packages.debian.org/stretch/pdf-presenter-console

or for arch linux here:

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/pdfpc/

So could you try on your own a litte bit? Maybe we forgot some depencies in
the cmake file.

[asartori86]

actually I have all of them installed..

[a123qwertz567]

If it is an overlay thing, have you tried to supress the overlays:

pdfpc --help
[...]
-g, --disable-auto-grouping     Disable auto detection and grouping of overlayed slides
[...]

[asartori86]

Thanks @a123qwertz567, but it didn't help

$ pdfpc -g video-example.pdf 

** (pdfpc:10526): WARNING **: movie.vala:531: Error creating control pipeline: Could not make element overlay of type cairooverlay.

[AndreasBilke]

cairooverlay is in gst-plugins-good and it seems that your gentoo installation is not working properly. So I would say it is not a pdfpc issue.

[fnevgeny]

The relevant Gentoo bug tracker: https://bugs.gentoo.org/291150