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aronya
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Update. I have a workaround, for anyone else who runs into this. One issue is permissions. You need to be sure in your Amazon S3 account that your videos’ permissions are set for Everyone to Open/Download. That still didn’t solve my problem, though. All it did was make it intermittent.
However, it looks to me like the problem is with the video players, not the plugin.
The plugin won’t upload or display anything but mp4 & flv files (why?!!!), but the players will play other formats.
My workaround:
You will need to have at least ONE mp4 or flv file in your S3 bucket. Upload whatever video files you want to use via your Amazon S3 Management Console, then click on S3 Video in your WP admin area. Pick one of the files & click Get Shortlink. Copy the link. Paste the link to your WP page. Edit the file name in the link; change it to the file you want to use (in my case, the file names are case sensitive). I am using m4v files to accommodate mobile devices. They are working fine in Chrome & IE 10. Can’t vouch for any other file formats or browsers, so YMMV, but this is what’s working for me.
Good luck!
Hi Aronya,
I am using .mp4 files on mine without issue. That said .mp4 is just a container in which different video codecs may be placed so it may be the encoding which the player is not dealing with. Looking at my .mp4 files using media info ( http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en ) I can see they are encoded at 25fps with the H264 AVC codec for the video stream. So you may try re-encoding one of your files with a different codec and see if that helps.
Another issue which can result in the video not playing even though its loading and buffering is the player dimensions. Check the dimensions of your video file and make sure the player dimensions have the same aspect ratio. Otherwise the player can run into issues trying to scale the video.
Cheers
Anthony
Glad to see you got it partially working. In the interim I would definitely check the video codec is the same in the .mp4 and .mp4v files.
