H-264 mp4 video plays on an iPhone when embedded in a PDF via Acrobat, but not via media9

Question

Is there a bug in the media9 package that causes H-264 mp4 files to embed properly and play properly on a computer, but not an iPhone? I embedded the exact same mp4 video file in Acrobat X Pro (Mac OS 10.6.8) using the video tool under Multimedia, in which case the video played perfectly in Acrobat X Pro and ezPDF Reader on the iPhone. However, when I embedded the exact same video file via media9 (testing both VPlayer.swf and StrobeMediaPlayback.swf), the file played in Acrobat, but showed up as a blank media folder icon in ezPDF Reader. Clicking on that folder threw up an error message of

Media playback failure. Can not play format.

My LaTeX2e distribution is MacTeX 2012. I am using the LaTeX engine in TeXShop.

Answer 1

MP4/h.264 video and MP3 sound files embedded with media9 version 0.11 are played back in ezPDF Reader on tablets and phones with Android or iOS, yet without using the Flash-based players (StrobeMediaPlayback.swf, VPlayer.swf, APlayer.swf) embedded along with the media file. ezPDF uses its own, built-in player because it doesn't support Flash.

In order to make video and sound files work in ezPDF Reader, they must be embedded without a path component in the file name. If media files reside in another directory than the current one \addmediapath should be used:

\addmediapath{path/to/media/files}
...
\includemedia[
  width=0.4\linewidth,height=0.3\linewidth,
  activate=pageopen,
  addresource=random.mp4,
  flashvars={src=random.mp4}
]{}{StrobeMediaPlayback.swf}