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INStructor
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January 9, 2021
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How to play a video embedded in a pdf file in 2021?

  • January 9, 2021
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Hello!

Adobe Flash Player support has been discontinued. How do I now play a video embedded in a pdf file?

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JR Boulay
Community Expert
February 18, 2021

What is your Acrobat Pro version???

It should be:

 

Acrobate du PDF, InDesigner et Photoshopographe
New Participant
February 18, 2021

 Actually it looks like you are missing an update or two. I currently have 2021.001.20138

Known Participant
May 13, 2021

Any resolution for this? I am faced with the same problem. I have a video embedded in a PDF, however some users I send it to get the following error. (See attached image). Others have to go through a bunch of steps for "trusting content."  If the user double-click our PDF and it opens in a browswer it doesn't work at all either. Please help. 

JR Boulay
Community Expert
January 9, 2021
Acrobate du PDF, InDesigner et Photoshopographe
New Participant
February 16, 2021

None of the information in that article addresses the problem. The article itself claims "Acrobat Pro supports .mp3, .mov, and other files encoded in H.264 (with AAC audio)." but when you attempt to embed a H.264 .MP4 into a pdf document it still trys to embed the SWF player file.  Since Flash is EOL this doesn't function. Considering it was published in Nov 2020 well after the announcement of EOL for Flash, and the continued claim that embedded video is supported, I would also like to know what a workable solution is. 

 

Thanks,

Z

try67
Community Expert
January 9, 2021

What type of video?