Acro Reader No Longer Opens Media on Internet

Question

I have a website, www.vincentasl.info, long in operation, that provides access to PDFs containing embedded audio and video clips. It has worked successfully for years, but after a delay during which I did not confirm it operation, I recently noticed that its media will no longer play. One does not even see the cursor change to a pointing finger when hovering over the links to them (links in the form of icons, either of a speaker or a movie clip on the page). The same PDFs - and all the media clips embedded in them - work fine when played on my local PC. However, even on my own PC, when I bring up the same website code via localhost I get the same result: the cursor does not even change to a pointing finger.
Is this a recently added security block of some kind? I'm aware that you're trying to get rid of legacy media, but your own built-in media player simply will not do for my purpose. The only complaint I have about the audio is that I find my own interface much more appealing. But the problems with video (and I have many hundreds of video clips to display since this website is merely a start!) are more serious.
They are twofold:
(1) My users need to be able to view the videos frame-by-frame; when last I checked, that ability was not available in your player.
(2) My video clips need subtitles, and your controls obscure them.
The reasons for this are that the great bulk of these videos are of sentences in American Sign Language, and my users will be fellow linguists who have no knowledge of the language. They will need translations of each sign in the subtitles, and the ability to view the clips frame-by-frame is necessary so that they can study the subtle eyebrow raises, head tilts, etc. that are crucial to the signed message.
Until now, these problems have been olved in the Quicktime videos that I embed as legacy media.
Please tell me there's some way around this problem! Perhaps an earlier version of Acrobat Reader that I can tell my users to use?

Answer 1

Below is how it is being done.  This worked perfectly for years. MS Office 2007 does complain that the file extension does not match the data format (it's a tab delimited text file but I'm pretending it's an Excel file so they'll be prompted to view it as a spreadsheet in Excel) but you just click open and it works fine.  This issue with IE is new.  Let me know if you have any more ideas.
<CFSETTING ENABLECFOUTPUTONLY="Yes" SHOWDEBUGOUTPUT="No">
<!--- variables used for separating cells with tabs, and for new rows --->
<CFSET tabchar=chr(9)>
<CFSET newline=chr(13) & chr(10)>
<!--- tell browser it's an Excel file --->
<CFCONTENT TYPE="application/vnd.ms-excel">
<!--- tell Internet Explorer to open as Excel file --->
<CFHEADER NAME="Content-Disposition" VALUE="filename=myfile.xls">
<!--- get data --->
<CFQUERY NAME="getinfo" DATASOURCE="mydsn">
    select fieldone, fieldtwo
    from mytable
</CFQUERY>
<!--- output column headings --->
<CFOUTPUT><CFLOOP INDEX="q" LIST="fieldone,fieldtwo">#q##tabchar#</CFLOOP>#newline#</CFOUTPUT>
<!--- output database records --->
<CFOUTPUT QUERY="getinfo">#getinfo.fieldone##tabchar##getinfo.fieldtwo##newline#</CFOUTPUT>