Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ beamer | Animation slower in full Screen Mode

[gauchooo]

Hi everybody,

I have a problem with my PDF presentation made with beamer. I want to include an animation in my presentation using the animate package. In particular I have 101 PNG files (frames) and I include them as follows

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\animategraphics[autoplay,loop,height=7cm]{whatever}{filename}{0}{100}

This method works remarkably well, especially because the imposed frame rate is high enough to make the animation fluent.

The problem is: when I switch to full screen mode the animation is slower and the frame rate is not the one I have specified in the code, making the animation pretty much useless.

I really don't know why this happens, I have done some research with google, in this forum and I heave read the animate package documentation without finding any solution. The only thing I have noticed is that the less is the dimension of the animation the faster is, but unfortunately I need the above animation's size.

At the same time, increasing the frame rate does not work: the full screen animation is at the same speed even with an enhanced frame rate (which I suppose has a maximum value also for the non-full screen mode animation). Has anyone any idea?


Thank you very much!
Andrea

[alex]

Do the files have an unusual high resolution and do you use a recent version of animate? What is the frame rate you achieve in normal (not full screen) view (try the 'measure' option)?

Alexander

[gauchooo]

Hi Alexander,
thank you for your reply!
I think I have found the solution, the problem is due to the acrobat reader settings.
I have deselected the smooth image option in edit-->preferences-->page display-->rendering and, despite the fact that the animation (especially the margins) has a "lower quality", it works at the same speed of the non-full screen mode!
I have tested it only on Linux, now I will switch to Windows, if you do not hear me it means that it works also in the latter case.
Cheers,
Andrea