the daemon tells me, as i stagger from one crisis to the next:

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: media9 Author's name: Alexander Grahn Package version: 2012/03/01 (v0.1) Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/media9/ Summary description: Multimedia inclusion package with AdobeReader-9/X compatibility License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:

This package provides an interface to embed interactive Flash (SWF) and 3D objects (Adobe U3D & PRC) as well as video and sound files or streams in the popular MP4, FLV and MP3 formats into PDF documents with Acrobat-9/X compatibility. Playback of multimedia files uses the built-in Flash Player of Adobe Reader and does, therefore, not depend on external plug-ins. Flash Player supports the efficient H.264 codec for video compression.

This package is based on the RichMedia Annotation, an Adobe addition to the PDF specification. It replaces the now obsolete `movie15' package.

• Note that Adobe Reader for Linux has dropped Flash
• support since version 9.4.2.

This package was written in the new LaTeX3 syntax. Many thanks to the L3 team!

thanks for the upload; i've installed the new package, and made an entry for it in the catalogue repository.

Users may view the package catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/media9.html or they may browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/media9/

The catalogue entry will have appeared on the web by tomorrow morning.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team