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

[Rembrandt Wolpert]

Thank you so much: the code adapted from the example works perfectly :-).

/rfw


On Feb 4, 2008 12:37 PM, Pablo Rodríguez <oinos at web.de> wrote:

> Jonathan Kew wrote:
> > On 4 Feb 2008, at 5:26 pm, Rembrandt Wolpert wrote:
> >>
> >> 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).
>
> http://project.ktug.or.kr/dvipdfmx/doc/tug2005.pdf includes the
> following example on page 17:
>
> \vbox to 180bp{\vss\hbox{\hss
>  \special{pdf:ann width 360bp height 180bp
>    <</Subtype /Movie /Border [1 0 0] /T (movie dummy)
>      /Movie <</F (trinity.avi) /Aspect [720 358]
>        /Poster true>>
>      /A <</ShowControls false>> >>}\hss}}
>
> > Maybe others have experimented with this.... I know the topic has
> > come up previously, but don't recall any conclusions.
>
> I want to implement support for dvipdfm(x) in movie15. This is on my
> ToDo list, but I'm afraid that I don't have time that now.
>
> I hope it helps,
>
>
> Pablo
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