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How to play a video embedded in a pdf file in 2021?

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
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

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What is your Acrobat Pro version???

It should be:

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Zbigniew5C84

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

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Thank you. I most like will have to send out some instructions with the PDF then. If the video won't play to either (list steps to make trusted) or (list steps to make sure Adobe Reader is up to date) or (download and right-click and select Open With....)

I am using the most up-to-date Adobe Acrobat Pro

I am using the most up-to-date Adobe Reader

And when I open the PDf file I saved on the laptop on which I created it - it works - the MP4 file works.

When I open the pdf file on a different computer using the most uptodate Reader - it doesn't work.

JR Boulay

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Start here: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/rich-media.html

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Zbigniew5C84

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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.

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try67

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What type of video?

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