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Matt Hodges
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May 5, 2021
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Error when placing mp4

  • May 5, 2021
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I am creating a presentation in Indesign, with the intention of using the 'publish online' feature to share it. Several pages will include video with audio. Client has sent me several mp4 files. Some of these I can place without issue, and I have done a test run of the publish online and they work fine. With others, when I go to place them I get 'Download failed because the URL could not be verified'. I don't understand what the issue is – what's it go to do with a URL when I'm not trying to embed a YouTube/Vimeo video? I have tried googling the specific error message to no avail.

 

Any help would be greatly appeciated. I talked my client into using the publish online feature by promising them the video would work, and now I can't get it to work!

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Correct answer Grace5CA0

the answer for me was removing question marks from the file names

 

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Kamil2282214235o4
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March 26, 2024

I came a similar issue and it was the # symbol in the folder that helpd the mp4 files

Julie Chapalain
Julie Chapalain
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October 24, 2023

Thanks everyone for your help.

I also had a special character in my folder's name.

Solved!

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GraftedWorks
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October 19, 2023

Mine had % in it. I suspect any HTML-specific characters may trigger this error.

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    Grace5CA0Correct answer
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    July 28, 2021

    the answer for me was removing question marks from the file names

     

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      Matt HodgesAuthor
      Known Participant
      July 29, 2021

      Yes – I had # chracters in my file names, took these out and it cleared up the issue!

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        Eugene TysonCommunity Expert
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        May 9, 2021

        What is the message?

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        Matt HodgesAuthor
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        May 9, 2021

        The error message is:

         

        Download failed because the URL could not be verified

         

        As I say, I don't really understand how this relates to what I'm doing, as I have the mp4 saved locally?

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        Matt HodgesAuthor
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        May 19, 2021

        Hey, I worked out what the problem was in my case - the folder where the file was had a question mark in it. Worked it out by trying to sync the files to the cloud- file/folder names with '?', '/' and '|' and few other punctuation marks don't allow to sync, and, I assume, that creates broken URL links... Hope that helps you too!


        Glad you figured it out! Not sure that will solve it for me, as all my videos are in the same location, some work and some don't – and the folder they are in doesn't have any punctuation. However some of the file names are quite long, so maybe I'll try amending theose and see if it helps. Thanks for the update!

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