Media only playing on certain PCs

Hi all,
I've been building a document for work to distribute globally. I have embedded videos utilizing a sharepoint site that was created for the project. The videos will play on some PCs and not others. I'm not sure why. We are all using the same version of Acrobat. I have each person open the sharepoint site via internet explorer, so the browsers are all the same.
The only difference I noticed is that when those who can view the videos open the document, it's prompts them telling them the document is read only and then they have the option to save/open the document. Those who can't view the videos don't get that option. I thought it could be an Internet Explorer pop blocker issue, but I've tested that both ways, and that didn't fix the issue either.
The users who can't view the videos open the document and the videos just seem like they are in a constant state of buffer.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Kerry

Assuming everyone has the Adobe Reader plugin activated, Flash Player's NPAPI runtime installed, and identical security settings in their browsers, then it looks to be down to permission errors in Sharepoint. Adobe Reader won't throw an error if the media URI for an annotation is offline, nor will it cope with files that require authentication to access.
If the affected people download the file to their desktops, does it work? Can they access the video file's URL directly in their browsers?
If Sharepoint won't play ball, your best option is to embed the videos into the PDFs instead of linking to them; or host the videos on a conventional open-access webserver that doesn't care about user logins (running within your intranet if necessary).

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