You would think, if Adobe sells you software (InDesign) that allows you to embed video into a file and export it as an EPUB file, that you would be able to play it back in Adobe's Digital Editions EPUB viewer, right?
WRONG!
It took a lot of online research after failing to produce an EPUB document that played embedded video. For hours I kept figuring I must be doing it wrong, and tried to find other references to properly adding video into an InDesign document to export to EPUB. It played fine in interactive PDF exports, but it never showed up in the EPUB document (which is just a zipped file), even though it clearly had the video embedded into the document, made obvious by the size of the EPUB file.
It turns out that only the iOS platform and the B&N Nook (presumably the Nook Color and Tablet) support embedded video.
You know, they don't mention this explicitly in the Adobe TV videos, or in the help menu...it's very subtle that they only show how the embedded video in an EPUB works on an iPad.
I had a WTF?!? moment.
This is why I harbor a love-hate relationship with Adobe...they're so friggin discombobulated when it comes to coordinating their products. HTML5 and CSS3 support is a mess. To use HTML5 in Dreamweaver you need to change out the preference and/or convert the file to HTML5...but you only get code hints, not full blown tag support for HTML5 elements in the drop-down menus.
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