Video publishing video has been encoding for over 12 hours!

Thanks so much for keeping these older threads handy! I was having the same issue of trying to publish from Storyline to MP4 video, and it was hanging at "encoding," and kept going back to the starting slide. Turns out it was confused by the trigger to go back to slide 1 if a user clicks the forward arrow in the last slide. I deleted that trigger, and it published smoothly and quickly!