Beginning with version 9, Adobe Reader and Acrobat contain an embedded Adobe Flash Player that will play SWF, FLV, and MP3 files. A new annotation type, called a rich media annotation, was developed to manage these media file types in a PDF file.
The rmannot package supports the creation of rich media annotations (a RichMedia annotation type), and the embedding of SWF, FLV, and MP3 files in a PDF. SWF animations, FLV video, and MP3 sound can then be played within PDF viewed within version 9 (or later) of Adobe Reader or Acrobat. The mannot package was written, in part, to support the AcroFLeX Graphing package.
The Distribution: rmannot.zip
You also need to pick the the latest versions of AeB (acrotex_pack.zip), AeB Pro (aebpro.zip), and GraphicxSP (graphicxsp.zip), there were minor, yet important additions to these packages in support of both rmannot and AcroFLeX.
You can view the documentation for the package, rmannot_man.pdf, which has SWFs, FLVs and MP3s embedded. If you don't have version 9, the rich media annotation will not activate, you'll only see the poster appearances.
Demo files: tst_swf.pdf, tst_flv.pdf, and tst_mp3.pdf. Two others demonstrate special techniques tst_swf_custom.pdf and tst_flv_asjs.pdf, the former is demos a SWF file driven by its own SWF skin, and the latter demos the scripting bridge between Acrobat and Flash.
The rmannot package is part of AeB Pro, this means that Acrobat Distiller 9.0 or later is required to build a PDF with a rich media annotation.
More later.