Document Classes ⇒ Beamer: Play a Sound does not work

[pooz]

Hi,

I am trying to play a soundfile (a wave-file) in my Beamer-Class. But it doesnt work, allthough I followed the instructions of the beamer manual.

Here is my sample:

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% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
\documentclass{beamer}

\usepackage{multimedia}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\begin{document}

\frame
{
\sound[inline, samplingrate=44100,bitspersample=16]{Click me to Play Sound}{always_700cp_000cf.wav}
\\
\sound[]{Click me to Play Sound Nr.2}{always_700cp_000cf.wav}
}
\end{document}

Is someone able to compile this (with a test file) and play that sound when clicking on it? (you can download an appropriate soundfile here: http://www.findsounds.com/
try this for example)

I would be thankful for anyhelp.

[localghost]

Take a close look at Section 14.2 (Sounds, p. 130ff) of the beamer manual.


Best regards
Thorsten

[pooz]

Thanks,

I already read these pages.

It is written, that uncompressed files do work and the audio file types .au and .aif are recommended. Of course, I tried with those too!
But is doesn´t work either ...

Have you been able to compile and play that sound?
Thank you very much!

[pooz]

I also corrected one line in my given code above:

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\sound[inline...] -> \sound[inlinesound, ...]

But now the sound file is played back absolut noisy and distorted.
This is strange.

Any suggestions?

[pooz]

noone?

[pooz]

Dissapointing,
I guess I am on an Latex-Forum, but noone has any suggestion how to fix this problem? I think Latex-Beamer is quite a standard, so I won´t be the first one having such a problem

[localghost]

Dissapointing,
I guess I am on an Latex-Forum, but noone has any suggestion how to fix this problem? […]

And what do you expect now? If somebody knows a solution, I'm sure it will be posted. I tested your code with an AIF and an AU sound but didn't success (Windows XP, Adobe Reader 9.3). Think about contacting the maintainers of beamer [1]. If not done yet, you should post that issue to their help forum. Feel free to report new insights here (despite your disappointment). But somehow I think that this is not a problem on the LaTeX side on the viewer side.

[1] SourceForge.net: The LaTeX Beamer Class: Topics for Help

[pooz]

I posted this problem to maintainer´s bug tracker here and forum here, but unfortunately noone answered yet

a) What could do now?
b) You tested this code on a Windows machine and it didn´t work. So we can exclude the possibility, that it could be an error from my Mac OS X System and Adobe Viewer (among other viewers...)
c) I can´t imagine, that the code above is messed up...because I looked it up in the userguide ...

Maybe someone has an idea.

[pooz]

Hi localghost, hi at all,

does anyone have a suggestion (aka *Push* ?

[nostris]

Hi,
Just use \movie instead of \sound and it works perfectly! I had exactly the same problem with sound before...
Regards