Putting a mp4 inside a interactive pdf

Any help would be wonderful.
My movie will not go into my interactive pdf document.  All comes up but not the movie, help!

Did you place an MP4 with H264 encoding (the best choice)? You chose File > Place, right? Did you preview it in the Media panel? Did you preview it in the SWF Preview or EPUB Interactivity Preview? Did you choose File > Export > PDF (Interactivity)?
Finally, what PDF reader are you viewing the PDF in. Make sure you using Adobe Reader or Acrobat.

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