Guidance on using animations

[schtandard]

I want to use animations in my presentations with the help of the animate package. #102 makes me think that this is supported, but when I open a PDF containing an animation, it does not play; I always see the first frame. Do I need extra dependencies for this or am I missing anything else?

Here's an MWE for testing.

\documentclass{beamer}

\usepackage{animate}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
  \centering\Huge\bfseries
  \begin{animateinline}[loop, autoplay]{5}
    \multiframe{10}{n=0+1}{\fbox\n}%
  \end{animateinline}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

The animation plays in PDF-Xchange Editor and Adobe Acrobat Reader but not in Pympress.

[Cimbali]

I’d be surprised animate works, AFAICT it’s using javascript to dive animations which we don’t support. Embedding the image as a gif works out of the box though.

The issue you link to reported a crash related to animate and that was fixed, but there’s no support added for animate at this time.