S2Member Protected Video Files Not Working on Mobile Browsers

We upload our mp4 videos into s2member protected folder (/s2member-files/) and serve them inside of premium membership shortcodes for only our premium members, so it works fine on desktop browsers however it doesnt work on mobile browsers like safari, puffin etc. why?

I tried to put another folder of our web hosting and the wordpress default video player worked for bot mobile and desktop browsers.

I dont want to use amazon s3, jwplayer or anything related to cdn – their settings are included in s2member settings.

But there is no option for us to self-hosted mp4 videos and provide them for mobile browsers too by s2member plugin. Please help us.

We are adding video file link (https://oursite.com/wp-content/…/s2member-files/video.mp4) directly into our s2member level shortcodes inside of our posts.

Our FV Player allows you to self-host your videos and enjoy full mobile playback. FV Player is fully compatible with S2 Member as well. If you need any help with your S2 Member video implementation, just let us know.

Okay i will try your fv player, but i want to explain the problem and what i want to do:

We upload videos into s2member-files folder under the plugins folder.

After that we prepare our posts and put s2member shortcodes for hiding some part of the post content – like videos and images – . So, that video link goes inside of the shortcodes of s2member.
The wordpress and easy player video players both works on desktop browsers but not on mobile browsers.

I hope your plugin will fix that issue…

Hi Games.

Thanks for the explanation. Give FV Player a try for your self-hosted videos in the S2 files folder. We’ll work with you to make your videos play if not. S2 Member is one of the platforms we actively support.

Thanks. Alec

PS. The easiest way to solve your problem would be private videos on Vimeo which timeout. I.e. when you let your subscribers view a video, the link times out after an hour or two so your videos cannot be directly shared. I’m not recommending that you switch over now btw but I’m just presenting an alternative which is very low maintenance and very easy to use. Vimeo Pro does cost $200 dollars/year but that includes both encoding and streaming almost unlimited video – as you’re self-hosting video, you know that’s practically free.