HTML5 & SWF Publishing Inconsistencies

Hi All,

Downloaded the trial to see if Articulate Studio would serve our purposes of converting some older, PPT based training modules into html5 versions, to be published to our website/server. I have access to this through an FTP client, so I'm able to iterate and publish directly to our server to check functionality, and I'm frankly a little puzzled about what works and what does not.

Having some things function correctly in .swf but not html5, or vice versa, is not acceptable as the entire reason we're publishing to html5 is for increased compatibility and mobile device support. For reference: I've been testing all html5 functionality in the latest version of Chrome (this question posted January 23rd, 2014).

I'm trying to do a few very simple things.

1. Have slide narration play automatically on required slides - this has been working without flaw on every version published (html5, swf, etc)

2. Embed .wmv videos to be auto-played upon the viewer reaching their particular slide. Using the native embed feature, this works perfectly in .swf versions of the web player, but html5 will not show the video. It WILL however still play the accompanying audio...  (>&lt - I tried embedding these videos as web objects instead, hosted on our server once more, but for some reason this forces the browser to begin downloading the file instead of keeping it embedded in the player. 

3. Hyper-linking areas on slides to launch a separate pdf document in a new browser window, to be used for reference, printing, or downloading. Making a hyper link through powerpoint will work in html5 but not in .swf.

We have considerably more complicated tasks to complete than the ones described above, and frankly I'm a little concerned Articulate Studio is up to the task. Is this user error? Native limitations of html5 and .swf publishing? 

Thanks for any help.