Bewegtbild

A video playable PDF viewer built for presentations. bewegtbild let's your images move.

Warning

Under construction, but usable!

Usage

# View a PDF
bewegtbild test.pdf

# View a PDF + video configuration when and where to play videos, GIFs, ...
bewegtbild test.pdf -c ~/foo_config.json

# PDF + video configuration, updates when configuration changes (helps to write config)
bewegtbild test.pdf -c ~/foo_config.json --reload

Example configuration

[
  {
    "video_path": "./test_other.gif",
    "slide_num": [3, 7],
    "pos": ["70%", "70%"],
    "size": ["20%", "20%"]
  },
  {
    "video_path": "./test.mkv",
    "slide_num": 5,
    "pos": ["40%", "50%"],
    "size": ["40%", "40%"]
  },
  {
    "video_path": "./test.mkv",
    "slide_num": 3,
    "pos": ["0%", "10%"],
    "size": ["100%", "100%"]
  }
]

Installation

This installation requires a pre-built library. Download and extract the version pdfium/6541 of pdfium-binaries under pdfium/linux-x64.

Prepare

git clone https://github.com/tfachmann/bewegtbild/tree/main
cd bewegtbild
mkdir pdfium
cd pdfium
mkdir linux-x64
# download and extract libpdfium.so (or libpdfium.a) here
#   visit https://github.com/bblanchon/pdfium-binaries/releases/tag/chromium%2F6541
#   or build it yourself

Build

cargo build --release

If a static library libpdfium.a is provided, use this instead. Note that pdfium-binaries does not provided static libraries. To use a libpdfium.a, one must build pdfium from source.

cargo build --release --features static

Vision

• fast, no lags
• full PDF support -- via pdfium-render
• full video format support (GIF, mp4, mkv, ...) -- via egui-video
• native (linux)
• web
• easy installation (!hard because of pdfium)
• minimal features
  • vim-like navigation
  • presenter support
  • play (loop) videos
  • videos spanning multiple slides
  • pause videos
  • configurable hotkeys
• easy incorporation of videos (no code)
  • via configuration
  • via python launcher script (supported dataclass)
• built-in support for presentations built with typst (polylux?)