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I am trying to embed a video using the media9 package for a Beamer presentation. Because I use a special font, I need to compile with LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX. Now to do this video embedding you need to make a dvi file rather than a pdf file. But LuaLaTeX and XeLaTeX both directly make a pdf file. It is possible to get a dvi file with LuaLaTeX by either using the --output-format=dvi option or the dvilualatex command, but in both cases the compiler can't find my figures... As for XeLaTeX, I can only ouput xdv files.

So my question is this, is there a way to make it work with LuaLaTeX or embed the video via a xdv file with XeLaTeX? Otherwise are there any simple alternatives?

Skillmon
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BitterDecoction
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    well video embedding is a problem since flash support was removed in the pdf viewers (and probably it won't work anymore with media9 unless you have an old reader), but I'm not aware that dvi is more usefull. Where did you get that info from? – Ulrike Fischer Oct 31 '23 at 16:11
  • I used this question for the procedure: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/45242/animations-with-movie15-and-swf-files – BitterDecoction Oct 31 '23 at 16:14
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    that's a 2012 answer, you are unlikely to have a pdf reader that can still do that (and if you have you probably shouldn't use it as you haven't had a securirty update in a decade) – David Carlisle Oct 31 '23 at 16:31
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    well apart that the answer is old and probably don't work anyway: it doesn't say that you need dvi. It actually explicitly say that it works with all workflows. – Ulrike Fischer Oct 31 '23 at 16:34
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    keep the video separate and just link to it from the beamer file, that will give much better experience than trying to find a pdf viewer that can still embed video in the pdf. – David Carlisle Oct 31 '23 at 16:42
  • I tried Fritz's answer in this question: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/516029/media9-is-becoming-obsolete-dec-2020-any-alternatives-for-embedding-video-audio but I get the following error message... " \pdf_pageobject_ref:n l.340 \end{frame} The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message was never \def'ed." I can't comment there because I don't have enough reputation. – BitterDecoction Oct 31 '23 at 17:25
  • is your tex system up-to-date? – Ulrike Fischer Oct 31 '23 at 17:39
  • Ah! It wasn’t and now it works, thanks!! – BitterDecoction Oct 31 '23 at 22:28

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