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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have been trying to embed a movie using multimedia.sty or movie15.sty into a beamer presentation using W32XeTeX(xdvipdfmx driver). Of course these packages have been developed to work with pdftex, or dvips/Distiller - there is no option to use dvipdfm(x). Therefore I guess I am doomed. An alternative way that was suggested once by Jonathan did not work: generating a PDF-page that contains the movie (using movie15.sty/pdftex) and load this page into my xetex document using \includegraphics. The movie did not play, just the replacement text was shown. So to circumvent the movie-issue, I tried to use the package xmpulti.sty (comes along with beamer) to load a series of pictures. This package expect pictures to be named like e.g. "picture.0" till "picture.71" and generates on the fly for each picture an includegraphics-command. Of course this does not work, because xdvipdfmx can not determine the bounding box. It relies on *.bb files but with the given nomenclature of pictures it is impossible to give xdvipdfmx what it needs (picture.0.bb? ,picture.bb?)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">So do I just have to give up on the idea of using xelatex/beamer AND movies/animations? Any suggestions?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thank you,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Toralf</FONT>
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