[Tex/LaTex] Trying to embed .avi video in beamer presentation with media9

Question

I am trying to embed a video in a beamer presentation. I am using the media9 package. I get the following error message:

! You can't use `\dimexpr' in restricted horizontal mode.
<argument> \dimexpr 

l.62 \end{frame}

? 

Others posts have recommended to update the packages, which I did. The versions of my softwares are the following:
WinEdt v7.1;
MiKTex v2.9.4533;
media9 v0.43 (2014-04-07)

I run Latex -> dvi2ps -> ps2pdf

The error occurs for the following command line: latex.exe --src --interaction=errorstopmode --synctex=-1 "test.tex"

And a minimal code is

 \nonstopmode
 \listfiles
 \documentclass[hyperref={pdfpagelabels=false},dvips]{beamer}

\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{media9}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
  \frametitle{Title}
  \framesubtitle{Sub-title}
  \begin{center}
    \includemedia[activate=onclick,width=0.75\textwidth]{\includegraphics{figs_defense/image_acquisition.eps}}{figs_defense/image_acquisition.swf}
  \end{center}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

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Answer 1

This answer is a bit generic. Try to run this code and see if it works because you have already updated your packages, so just see if this works:

\documentclass[aspectratio=169]{beamer}
\usetheme{CambridgeUS}

\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{comment}
\usepackage{moreverb}

%% Video stuff
\usepackage{media9}

\newcommand{\myurlshort}[2]{\href{#1}{\textcolor{gray}{\textsf{#2}}}}



%%% Start of the presentation
\title{Adding video in a beamer presentation}
\author{By \myurlshort{http://biostat.jhsph.edu/~lcollado/}{L Collado-Torres}}
\date{
December 5th, 2012
}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}[allowframebreaks]
  \titlepage
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}[allowframebreaks]
  \tableofcontents
\end{frame}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\section{Sources}

\begin{frame}
  \frametitle{You might want to check}
  \begin{itemize}
  \item \myurlshort{http://pages.uoregon.edu/noeckel/PDFmovie.html}{PDF with animations} is a great post that ultimately points you to media9.
  \item \myurlshort{http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/media9/}{media9 CTAN page}
  \item \myurlshort{http://ctan.mirrorcatalogs.com/macros/latex/contrib/media9/doc/media9.pdf}{media9 manual}: open it with Acrobat to see all the nice things.
  \item \myurlshort{http://makarandtapaswi.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/movie-package-movie15/}{Post about using movie15}: note that movie15 is deprecated.
  \end{itemize}
\end{frame}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\section{Test}

\begin{frame}
  \frametitle{Youtube video}
  \includemedia[
width=7.11cm,height=4cm,
activate=onclick,
flashvars={
modestbranding=1 % no YT logo in control bar
&autohide=1 % controlbar autohide
&showinfo=0 % no title and other info before start
&rel=0 % no related videos after end
},
url % Flash loaded from URL
]{}{http://www.youtube.com/v/9bZkp7q19f0?rel=0}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}
    \frametitle{What you need for media9}
Basically, the newest version of texlive and a new version of Acrobat Reader (above 9 something).
\end{frame}

\end{document}