[Tex/LaTex] Can XeLaTeX | LuaTeX import movies

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It seems that XeLaTeX cannot handle movies. I imported movies into PDF produced with pdflatex compiler using the multimedia package that comes with beamer. My search over various boards revealed that currently there is no package that could import movies under XeLaTeX. Is that correct? And what about LuaLaTeX?

UPDATE: This question became obsolete with the advent of media9 package.

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There is a version of movie15.sty called movie15_dvipdfmx.sty, see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/asymptote/patches/, that allows the inclusion of movies with xelatex with \includemovie.

Since it may not be clear, as there is no documentation, the package movie15_dvipdfmx.sty should be passed the option dvipdfmx for use with xelatex, that is, \usepackage[dvipdfmx]{movie15_dvipdfmx}.

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The TeX-ligatures in luatex are not a font property, they are "faked" features implemented in the font loader code. The problem could be the bug in the luaotfload/context code reported some month ago:

http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20110310.181448.288f2a38.en.html

I think it has been corrected in context but I doubt that the new code has already found its way in luaotfload.

You can test the font directly (to exclude a fontspec problem and to test the both modes)

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{luaotfload}
\begin{document}
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 \testb -- --- abc 
\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Playing movies in Beamer on many platforms

This is a long shot, and admittedly not much of an answer per se, but you could try merely embedding the movies as attachments (see this question)... this way you can attach any format you'd like.

True, you'd lose "in viewer" playability, but you could replace the place where the movie is supposed to show with a still (thumbnail) of it and point the reader to the "Attachments" tab for the movie proper.

Not all pdf viewers support attachments, and I don't own a portable device to check which ones do...

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