Document Classes ⇒ Embedding beamer movie using movie15

[jazzgossen]

I'm preparing some PDF presentations using beamer and pdflatex. I want to embed some animations. Using

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\movie[externalviewer]{...}

(with the "ordinary" multimedia package) works, but the movie opens in an external player, of course.

I have read that the movie15 package should be able to embed files compatible with current versions of Adobe Reader. So now I use that package and have

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\includemovie{5em}{5em}{output.avi}

instead. This gives me an empty frame where the animation should be (which is fine, since I haven't specified a poster image).

When I click inside the frame, using Adobe Reader 8.1.3 for Linux, I get a dialog asking whether I really want to play the movie, and after clicking OK nothing happens.

If I click on the frame itself, I get an error message: "There was an error processing an annotation or link. There was a problem reading this document (14)."

Any ideas why? Does the movie have to be encoded in some special format?

[BMAcox]

Yes, I was wondering myself how to embed JAVA applets in a Beamer created presentation. And on a higher level, can someone provide their .02 on which other presentation packages are written for LaTex? A short pros & cons of presentation packages available to us for LaTex would be immensely helpful.

Thank you!