Hey James,
Ultimately, SmartS3 passes the URL you submit through an Amazon S3 PHP class to generate an authenticated URL. The class used is actually the one developed by Amazon and released on their developer’s site.
As an example, here’s one of my videos hosted on Amazon S3:
[video src="http://johnmorrisonline.com.s3.amazonaws.com/videos/how-the-internet-works.mp4" /]
It breaks down like this:
Bucket => johnmorrisonline.com
S3 URL => s3.amazonaws.com
Folder =>/videos
File => how-the-internet-works.mp4
The shortcode for SmartS3 is set up to form the URL this way. It shouldn’t affect whether your video plays or not. Amazon S3 understand the URL formatted both ways.
As for the HTTPS, I think I know what’s causing that. I’ll look into it and update it.
Are you having trouble with your videos playing? If so, can you send me an example page, so I can take a look.
Thanks!
John
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James
(@jroster)
Hey John,
I just applied the update to the plugin and it is working great – thank you very much for the reply – also, great work on this. I’ll post future comments/questions on your website from now on.
http://www.johnmorrisonline.com/smarts3/
