How to add a picture on video using movie15 package or media9 or multimedia package(s) on LinuxOS

Question

I have been experimenting with the sample of code from LaTeX beamer presentation. At this point let me clarify that I know that this is a deprecated module and that I should be using media9 and not movie15, but I have spend 2 days trying to make it work with all these configurations but none of the sample of codes that I found online worked for me e.g. How to include multimedia files in beamer or Embedding Videos in LaTeX Beamer or Using media9 to include videos files or Video in a Presentation etc...etc...so I gave up on the idea and switched to the deprecated module.

Sample of working code from LaTeX beamer presentation slightly modified:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[3D]{movie15}
\usepackage[UKenglish]{babel}
\usepackage{lmodern}
% \usepackage{hyperref} % update based on comments
\usepackage{graphicx}

%% See: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Presentations
%% See: http://www.hartwork.org/beamer-theme-matrix/
\usetheme{Copenhagen} 
\usecolortheme{beaver}

\hypersetup{
  pdfauthor={Thanos},
  pdftitle={Simple Beamer Class},
  pdfsubject={Subject},
  pdfkeywords={Key} {Words} {List},
  urlcolor=blue,
}
\author{Thanos} % updating based on comments

\begin{document}
\title{Simple Beamer Class}   
% \author{Thanos}
\date{\today} 
\frame{\titlepage} 
\frame{\frametitle{Table of contents}\tableofcontents} 

\section{Movie} 
\frame{\frametitle{Pymol Movie object}

\begin{figure}[!htb]
\centering
\includemovie[
poster,
toolbar, %same as `controls'
text={\includegraphics[width=0.8\textwidth]{samplePicture.eps}}
% text={\phantom{\includegraphics[width=0.8\textwidth]{samplePicture.eps}}} % update based on comments
]{10cm}{6cm}{SampleVideo.mp4}
\caption{A PyMOL movie object embedded in PDF, using mpg format.}
\label{mov:ex3d}
\end{figure}
}

\section{Lists}
\subsection{Lists I}
\frame{\frametitle{Unnumbered lists}
\begin{block}{My bloc}
test of bloc
\end{block}

\begin{itemize}
\item Introduction to  \LaTeX  
\item Beamer class
\end{itemize} 
}
\end{document}

My question is how to add a picture on the video. Based on the documentation of the package The movie15 Package page 6 shows that we can add a picture with the following part text={\phantom{\includegraphics[scale=2]{path/to/poster}}}.

After compiling the code is working and the video is playing but the picture is not displayed is there any workaround this problem?

A minor note to make here, I am also getting this error:

hyperref: Option 'pdfauthor' has already been used,

I searched online and I found this thread The \titlepage problem in beamer, the proposed solution did not work for me, or How to get rid of those beamer warnings, or Errors with Beamer not understandable. This is not something important I know this is only a warning but since I am asking the question why not trying to resolve all of my questions.

Update:

I forgot to include my Latex version:

$ pdflatex --version
pdfTeX 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.18 (TeX Live 2017/Debian)
kpathsea version 6.2.3
Copyright 2017 Han The Thanh (pdfTeX) et al.
There is NO warranty.  Redistribution of this software is
covered by the terms of both the pdfTeX copyright and
the Lesser GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file
named COPYING and the pdfTeX source.
Primary author of pdfTeX: Han The Thanh (pdfTeX) et al.
Compiled with libpng 1.6.29; using libpng 1.6.29
Compiled with zlib 1.2.8; using zlib 1.2.8
Compiled with poppler version 0.41.0

Update2

Adding video.log file, download here (video.log).

Update3

Sample of output based on comment (removing \phantom).

Update4

Sample of code for package media9:

\listfiles
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{media9}
\usepackage[UKenglish]{babel}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{graphicx}

%% See: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Presentations
%% See: http://www.hartwork.org/beamer-theme-matrix/
\usetheme{Copenhagen} 
\usecolortheme{beaver}

\hypersetup{
  pdfauthor={Thanos},
  pdftitle={This is the title},
  pdfsubject={Pdf Subject},
  pdfkeywords={Key} {Words} {List},
  urlcolor=blue,
}

\begin{document}

\title{Sample of media9 attempt}
\date{\today} 
\frame{\titlepage} 
\frame{\frametitle{Table of contents}\tableofcontents}  

\section{Movie} 
\frame{\frametitle{Movie using media9}

\begin{figure}[!htb]
\includemedia[
  %activate=onclick, % default
  addresource=sampleVideo.mp4,
  flashvars={
    source=sampleVideo.mp4
    &autoPlay=true % start playing on activation
    &loop=true
  },
  passcontext %show player's right-click menu
]{\includegraphics[height=0.45\linewidth]{samplePicture.eps}}{VPlayer9.swf}
\caption{A media9 package movie embedded in PDF, using mp4 format.}
\label{mov:ex3d}
\end{figure}
}
\end{document}

Adding video.log file, download here (videoMedia9.log).

Answer 1

Based on AlexG guidance and expertise he helped me to understand that okular is not enough to play multimedia from media9. Proposed solution with Adobe Reader unix 9.4.1 unfortunately for me is not working.

Output of not loading the video from sample of code provided above with media9 package:

So the only solution that worked for my simple requirements is to use \usepackage{multimedia}.

Sample of working code:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{multimedia}
\usepackage{lmodern}
% \usepackage[UKenglish]{babel}
% \usepackage{graphicx}

%% See: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Presentations
%% See: http://www.hartwork.org/beamer-theme-matrix/
\usetheme{Copenhagen} 
\usecolortheme{beaver}

\hypersetup{
  pdfauthor={Thanos},
  pdftitle={This is the title},
  pdfsubject={Pdf Subject},
  pdfkeywords={Key} {Words} {List},
  urlcolor=blue,
}

\begin{document}
  \title{Sample of multimedia attempt}
  \date{\today}
  \frame{\titlepage}
  \frame{\frametitle{Table of contents}\tableofcontents}    

  \section{Movie} 
    \begin{frame}{Movie using media9}
      \begin{figure}[!htb]
        \movie[label=show3,%
               width=1.0\textwidth,%
               poster,%
               % autostart,%
               showcontrols,%
               % loop,%
              ]{\includegraphics[width=1.0\textwidth]
               {samplePicture.eps}}
               {sampleVideo.mp4}
        \caption{A media9 package movie embedded in PDF, using mp4 format.}
      \end{figure}
    \end{frame}
    \label{mov:show3}
\end{document}

Similar question that the solution has been accepted with media9 package Did anyone succeed in playing embedded movies inside Acrobat in Linux? maybe for someone else the sample of code might work.