Embedding .mp4 in Beamer

Question

I have a file movie.gif that I converted into movie.mp4.

I'd like to add it to my Beamer presentation.

I tried:

\documentclass[10pt, aspectratio=169]{beamer}
\usefonttheme{serif}
\usepackage{multimedia}
\usepackage{media9}
\begin{document}
\includemedia[
  label=vid,
  addresource=movie.mp4,
  activate=pageopen,
  width=5cm, height=4cm,
  flashvars={
     source=movie.mp4
    &loop=true
  }
]{}{VPlayer.swf}
\mediabutton[
  mediacommand=vid:playPause,
]{\fbox{Play/Pause}}
\end{document}

Do you know why this would not work`? Help would be really appreciatedd!

EDIT: I tried several approaches:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{xmpmulti}
\begin{document}
    \begin{frame}
        \transduration<0-10>{0}
        \multiinclude[<+->][format=png, graphics={width=\textwidth}]{something
    \end{frame}
\end{document}

This produces many slides...

Another approach:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{animate}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}{Embedded Animation}
  \animategraphics[loop,controls,width=\linewidth]{10}{something-}{0}{16}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

Unless you have an ancient pdf viewer, it might be easier to include a gif: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/240247/36296 — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, Nov 16 '23 at 13:34
Thank you. I'm not very familiar with the command line. What would be the easiest method do split the gif? — Sylvia, Nov 16 '23 at 13:44
If the gif does not contain any sensitive information, you could use an online service like https://convertio.co/gif-png/ (no idea how good or bad they are compared to others, was just the first hit in duckduckgo) — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, Nov 16 '23 at 13:47
Do you know how I can rename (72 files) in latex? I'd like to use your code. — Sylvia, Nov 16 '23 at 13:55
Renaming files is a job for your operating system, not for latex. — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, Nov 16 '23 at 13:56
To test the different solutions, you could rename a couple of images by hand and check if you like the results. You could also try @AlexG's solution https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/240387/36296 — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, Nov 16 '23 at 14:00
Okay. Can I modify \transduration? My structure is 'something- (1)' ... 'something- (73)' — Sylvia, Nov 16 '23 at 14:10
You want to avoid spaces in the file names and also remove the () around the number. The files should be called something-1.png to something-73.png and then try \begin{frame} \transduration<0-72>{0} \multiinclude[<+->][format=png, graphics={width=\textwidth},start=1]{something} \end{frame} If you have adobe reader, it will need to be used in presentation mode for the automatic changing between slides. — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, Nov 16 '23 at 14:15
If you are using Linux then the solution might be to use a PDF viewer which supports nedia/animations as, e.g., okular or pdfpc. The default viewers (e.g., evince) don't work. For testing, you can download the pdf from https://github.com/pdfpc/pdfpc (and there: Sample presentations --> Embedded movies). This could also help to find out if (or not) it is your viewer. — BanDoP, Nov 16 '23 at 14:43
I could rename the images. something-0.png to something-72.png. I could not manage to properly embed the images (see edit) — Sylvia, Nov 16 '23 at 15:06
@Sylvia If more than two users commented on your question, you need to start your comments with @username. Otherwise they don't get notified about your replies. — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, Nov 16 '23 at 15:31
@samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz see edit. If I use that code, I get a sequence of slides. Each slide shows the GIF and I get a long compilation time. — Sylvia, Nov 16 '23 at 15:46
The code will create one slide for each png. With a suitable pdf viewer, the \transduration{0} will automatically change the slide and thus create an animation. In my opinion, that's the safest approach. Worst case, you can still manually switch the slides. If you only want a single slide, try the code by @AlexG — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, Nov 16 '23 at 15:49
@samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz The code by AlexG is nice, but the play button is missing (See edit) — Sylvia, Nov 16 '23 at 15:53

Embedding .mp4 in Beamer

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