As alternative, you can embed a flash movie (SWF) into PDf file and play SWF file in Ubuntu using Adobe Reader version < 9.4-2 (version 9.4.1 is recommended as it is the last version for Linux with a built-in Flash player, you can find it here). The embedding is possible using flashmovie LaTeX package, for example:
\flashmovie[width=10cm,height=5cm,auto=1]{yournameforvideofile.swf}
I have recently tested it again in current Ubuntu 16.04 and TeXlive 2015 LaTeX distribution and it works well.