Play embedded multimedia files in PDF's with Preview?

I receive a newsletter that sometimes embeds video clips or audio clips into the PDF. I can play the embedded files correctly if I use the free Adobe Reader but I want to know if Preview can play these files also?
Thanks!

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[SOLVED] can't play any multimedia file, fresh install msi wind

hi! i have now a pretty much working system i installed mplayer and alsa, and have a working xorg, i configured alsa with alsaconf and it says that the card was found and i can now change levels with alsamixer the thing is that everytime a want to play a media file, say an mp3, avi, mpg, every kind of media file, mplayer says "Starting playback..." and the do nothing, i tryed vlc too, it shows the position bar like its playing but nothiing happends and then if you want to close it the only way to stop them is via htop, not even a sudo killall mplayer/vlc do the trick, dont know if its a misconfiguration or a alsa/kernel bug, and i think that i have so less controls in alsamixer/amixer, because i don't have a mic audio level for example, i only have a "mono" Master and PC Speaker
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my xorg:
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Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
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# InputDevice "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
# InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
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Section "ServerFlags"
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# Option "AutoAddDevices" "False"
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Section "Files"
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FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection
Section "Module"
# Load "ddc"
Load "dbe"
# Load "xtrap"
Load "dri"
Load "glx"
Load "bitmap" # bitmap-fonts
Load "type1"
Load "record"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
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# Identifier "Keyboard0"
# Driver "keyboard"
# Option "CoreKeyboard"
# Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
# Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
# Option "XkbLayout" "es"
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#Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier "USB Mouse"
# Driver "mouse"
# Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
# Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
# Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
# Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
# Option "Buttons" "5"
#EndSection
#Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier "Touchpad"
# Driver "synaptics"
# Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
# Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
# Option "LeftEdge" "130"
# Option "RightEdge" "840"
# Option "TopEdge" "130"
# Option "BottomEdge" "640"
# Option "FingerLow" "7"
# Option "FingerHigh" "8"
# Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
# Option "MaxTapMove" "110"
# Option "EmulateMidButtonTime" "75"
# Option "VertScrollDelta" "20"
# Option "HorizScrollDelta" "20"
# Option "MinSpeed" "0.25"
# Option "MaxSpeed" "0.50"
# Option "AccelFactor" "0.010"
# Option "EdgeMotionMinSpeed" "200"
# Option "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed" "200"
# Option "UpDownScrolling" "1"
# Option "CircularScrolling" "1"
# Option "CircScrollDelta" "0.1"
# Option "CircScrollTrigger" "2"
# Option "SHMConfig" "on"
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### Values: : integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
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#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "ColorKey" # 
#Option "CacheLines" # 
#Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoDDC" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvMCSurfaces" # 
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Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
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DefaultDepth 24
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Depth 8
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EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "1680x1050" "1024x600" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1680x1050" "1024x600" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
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[aleyscha@aleyscha 63 ~ 11:15]$ amixer
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 255
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 21 [8%] [-7.69dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 21 [8%] [-7.69dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'PC Speaker',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'BaseFRQ',0
Capabilities: penum
Items: '18643' '37286'
Item0: '18643'
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MPlayer dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz (Family: 6, Model: 28, Stepping: 2)
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137 audio & 292 video codecs
Playing doorbell1.mp3.
libavformat file format detected.
[lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 0
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 22050 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/18.14% (ratio: 16000->88200)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 22050Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
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[00000001] main libvlc debug: VLC media player - version 0.9.8a Grishenko - (c) 1996-2008 the VideoLAN team
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