Import Videos for Interactive PDF Export -- "Start" and "Play" options

[Roger Breton]

It's been a while since I didn't use "Embedded Videos" in InDesign.

I'm at v16.4 on Windows 10.

Importing MP4 videos has not changed.

But I noticed the removal of the "Controller" menu in the Media panel.

So when Export to Interactive PDF, all I can do, from within Acrobat, is to Start the video ONLY. No way to stop it. 

I would have loved, for the sake of my undergraduate students, to simply be able to play the videos from the PDF. But it seems this can no longer be done without a Plug-in or resorting to a different PDF "Player"? 

I don't want to distribute my course notes in ePub format when I can use PDF.

All I need, really, is the ability to Start / Stop / Play the video.

For the time being, I'll refer to the videos in my InDesign document but supply the videos MP4 files separately, for the students to play in whatever Video Player windown.

I was looking at supplying my OneDrive URLs? As a solution against supplying / using a YouTube link, which according to my readings does not work from the PDF (for reasons exposed by Adobe). I'll give the OneDrive approach a try, to satisfy my curiosity, but it's still not going to help with regards to the absence of "playback control" in the PDF?
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I'm sorry to be late to the party... I should have know about this important change in InDesign a long time ago... 

[Derek Cross]

Embedding a video in PDFs aren't going to work reliably for you, instead you can have a hyperlink in your PDF to an external source such as a YouTube or similar video or, alternatively use FXL ePub or InDesign's Publish Online.

[Roger Breton]

Derek,

How does using InDesign's Publishing Online work? Isn't that the same as "ePub"?

[JonathanArias]

question.

from acrobat, did you select a video player? see below. maybe selecting from here would allow you to have more control.

see this  video for how to use publish online:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uss26yZ1m0

 

[Roger Breton]

In experimenting with directly opening an MP4 video in Acrobat Pro DC, I could not resist accessing the Advanced Video Options dialog, in which I found two options, one for "Activating" the video content and for dor "Deactivate" the video content. This implementation ought to be covered in InDesign export for Interactive PDF because that's all I need for my students: either the play the conten or they stop it. 

See Acrobat screen capture :

Sorry for the "French" interface, I have to keep my installed apps in French for the duration of the semester. Plus, all my screen captures in my course notes have to be in French as well.

I wasn't aware at all of that "Activate/Deactivate" feature in PDF.