[XeTeX] Xe(La)TeX and beamer movie and/or sound

[Jonathan Kew]

On 4 Feb 2008, at 5:26 pm, Rembrandt Wolpert wrote:

> Hi,
>
> under pdflatex I could (and still can) include a movie on my beamer  
> slides; with XeLaTeX there are no complaints during compilation,  
> but the movie (in my case: sound) is not recognised in the viewer  
> application (Acrobat Reader). Since I am using Chinese in the  
> slides, pdflatex isn't a fall-back choice.
>
> Any help/hints would be most appreciated.
>


This would depend on whether movies can be embedded by the xdvipdfmx  
driver; I'm not aware of any support for this (but the place to look  
would be the DVIPDFMx documentation, as that's where most of the  
\special support comes from).

One idea for a workaround might be to use pdflatex to embed the movie  
by itself into a single-page PDF, and then include that PDF as a  
graphic in the xelatex job. I don't know if this would actually work,  
but it wouldn't hurt to try it.

Maybe others have experimented with this.... I know the topic has  
come up previously, but don't recall any conclusions.

JK