Help needed with saving interactive PDF (Video and Youtube in InDesign)

Designing a brochure in Indesign CS6 I have placed small MP4 video file into indesign, when I save the file as an interactive pdf the video files dont show up in preview on mac, just a blank white space. the window does show in adobe reader but im having problems with the play function not being able to pause that. Would like the file to be a pdf so can share across a few devices and platforms.
Have also tried a workaround which hyperlinks an screencaption but the link appears broken when i click the image, is this something to do with you tube video being private? 

Moved to InDesign forum.
When you export you will note that you export an Adobe PDF. There's a reason for that.
Mac Preview is fine for a plain vanilla PDF but it ends there.
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