animate does not animate files in beamer although compilation works

It seems that the problem came form the last version of Acrobat Reader, Acrobat Reader DC. Something is going wrong with javascrit. If you modified you code with:

\animategraphics[
    controls,
    loop,
    poster=last,
    height=.7\textheight
]{1}{./graphics/animation/anim}{1}{10}

and you turn on the java console in Acrobat Reader DC preference you will see the message :

ReferenceError: a0 is not defined 1:Field:Mouse Up

I'am using TexLive 2015 on Mac Os 10.9, and the same problem can be reproduced on a windows configuration.

If you test this modification using previous version of acrobat reader, it works fine, without any error.

So for the moment I'am using the previous version of Acrobat Reader to view PDF with animations.

Best Regards.

Different AR versions seem to behave differently with regard to PageOpen/PageVisible events which are used to initialise the animation. Some fire the latter, others the former when a page is navigated to in AR.

Un update [2016/02/28] which evaluates both events, such that none of them is missed, is on the way to CTAN.