Placing MP4 16:9 ratio movie exports as 4:3 ratio to interactive PDF. How do I export to 16:9??

Hi everyone,
I'm trying to setup an interactive PDF and I have a movie I want to embedd. Everything is going fine, but when I export and playback the movie it reverts it to a 4:3 aspect ratio!
Placing:
Playback:
Very frustrating as when I'm placing the movie it all looks correct, but when I run the preview, it squishes it to a 4:3 ratio. Is there a setting I'm missing or do I need to re-render the video with different settings? I've taken it to Adobe Media Encoder, but that hasn't changed anything, still coming through as 4:3.
I've also been trying to google some answers but haven't found anything too useful.
I'm running Adobe CC.
Much thanks to anyone who can help!
- Manny

What are you using "to run the preview".
Here's a wide aspect movie MP4 placed in InDesign CC:
Here it is previewed in SWF Preview:
I've placed many MP4s into InDesign and have never seen that problem.

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