I have an embedded mp4 video in a PowerPoint 2016 presentation. I want to pause and resume the video during the presentation. The PowerPoint support documents say you can do this by clicking the mouse, but it doesn't quite work like that. Yes, when I initially click the mouse the video does pause. And if I click the mouse again before the playback controls disappear (about four seconds), the video resumes playing. However, if I click the mouse after the playback controls disappear, PowerPoint advances to the next slide.
When using a real mouse, I can move the mouse to make the playback controls appear and then click the mouse to resume playing. However, when using a remove clicker where I can't simulate mouse movement (and get the playback controls to reappear), I can't restart the video.
Note that pressing the spacebar always causes the video to stop playing and advance to the next slide. Although I'd prefer to use a remove clicker, I could get by with simple keyboard commands.
