Indesign CC 2014 Fixed Layout export

My fixed layout epub export, previews beautifully in iBooks but not in Adobe Digital editions 3.0.
What are non mac users supposed to use as a desktop e-reader to test their fixed layout epubs?

Hi,
Can I just add, that disable spreads doesn't allow the book to be a spread in portrait mode. Is this possible?
I want the reader to have the option to view the book in both landscape and portrait modes as a spread, being able to zoom into a portrait portion of the page left to right without a hideous gap inbetween.
Thanks

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Thanks for your response.
I tried again as you suggested.
I exported a Fixed Layout ePub (exported size ~29mb) and tried to load it on an Mac, iPad and iPhone 5s. The results are inconsistent. On the Mac, I received a message that the file was corrupt. On the iPad, the file did eventually load (the quality of the output is another discussion - sneak preview, it's not as good as Circular Flo. Lots of weird stuff). On the iPhone 5s, iBooks is still spinning and has been for about 10 minutes.
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Thanks for your response.
I tried again as you suggested.
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The audio are the two grey boxes...

If you place a movie ... what's under the "Watch" text above ... there's no need to place the audio file for it separately. You just place the movie. The ereader puts its own controls on top of the move to play or pause it.
In addition, you can add a button that will play the movie. The user can tap the button. To do that, make or place the button artwork in your layout file, then convert it to a button in the Buttons & Forms panel. Then with the button selected, add an Action to the button: choose Play Movie drop down list of actions, and choose the filename for the movie from the list in the same panel.
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I understand that you need the newest version (InDesign CC 2014.1) to accomplish what you want with EPUB.
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