[Tex/LaTex] Embedded audio in to pdf

luatexmovie15multimediapdf

I once had a very nice setup. I used movie15 to embed mp4 audio files in to a pdf. I used tikz to create a nice wrapper and used an play icon that could be clicked on and the audio item would item up in an external player. This worked in sumatra pdf and acrobat.

Now movie15 is depreciated and just returns junk(errors or text like name ABC@123 or something).

I have tried media9 and can get audio to show up and play in acrobat but not sumatra(due to it using swf).

Is there any way to simply embed a file in a pdf and have a click on an object(image) open that file in an external player?

movie15 worked well, but seeing that it is no longer supported, I don't know if it's worth trying to get to work. The errors I get(which are printed inside the pdf as normal text) are like:

name @MXV@EfAFaIEfJIAfIefjeIJIsjifJIASfJI xyz
width height depth /Subtype /FileAttachment/F 0/T (Myfile.mp4)/Contents (Media File (video/mp4))/AP «/N«»/R«»/D«»»/FS 202 0 Rwidth height depth /Subtype /Screen/Border [0 0 0]/BS «/S/S/W 0»/F 5/T (Myfile.mp4)/Contents (Media File (video/mp4))/P 21 0 R/A 199 0 R/AA 200 0 R/AP

\pdftexversion (fixed by doing \newcommand{\pdftexversion}{200})
\pdfdest 
\pdfannot

Any ideas? (Again, used to work fine before trying to update to latest packages, so it almost surely isn't some bug in the code)

Best Answer

In order to run a media file in an external application the attachfile or attachfile2 packages could be used:

\textattachfile{myvideo.mp4}{\includegraphics[width=1cm]{myi‌​con}}

where myicon is the basename of an image file (file extension removed) to be shown in the link area. Note that this solution requires proper application setting of the operating system for the media file type in question (during viewing time).

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