Interactive PDF increases video size

Hello,
I recorded some video tutorials on my Mac and scaled them down to 800 x 500 px in Premiere Pro CS5. The videos are looking good.
After placing them in InDesign CS5 and exporting them as an interactive PDF, settings for original size, the quality of the video is unbearable, because the size increased to 1190 x 716 px at 100 % magnification. I have no idea why that happens.
Exporting them at 75 % gives a better result, but how do I explain to my students, that 800 px at 100 % are 1190 px at 100 % in Acrobat Pro?
Any help is highly appreciated!

I tested your file, and created one of my own with an MP3 file.
Your complaint is that the Preview panel only requires a single click while in the PDF, activating the button requires a double-click. The Preview panel is Flash-driven using InDesign CS5's Flash run-time implementation. So what it really previews accurately are SWF files. While much of it will also apply to PDF previewing, there are many kinds of interactivity (e.g., multi-state objects or animations) that preview fine but don't work at all in PDF. There are other things like this work "similarly" but not exactly. It's really NOT a PDF previewer though you can use it to some extent.
I hadn't encountered this problem in CS5 because I hadn't used buttons to activate sounds in Acrobat 9 or Acrobat X. If you create a button to play a video (I used F4V) a single click plays it. For MP3's, a single click seems to "select" the sound, but it requires a double-click to play it. I have no reason why that should be.
Notice also that you can pause over the sound or video itself, and a tooltip tells you "Click to activate."

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