Truly great

This is a superb plugin! I’ve been able to use it to create Media Library entries not only to original local mp4’s elsewhere on my server, but also to shortlinks that are managed outside WordPress by an instance of the “yourls” application I’ve installed on the hosted server I use.
This combination makes it very easy to keep videos at a single location on my server space, rather than having to copy them over to one or multiple WordPress installations. Less space required on the server, and no problems with having to manage multiple copies of folders full of videos.
I do have one suggestion. For video files in the Media Library, no thumbnail appears in the Media Library as it does for still images. Instead, a generic icon is used. It’d be helpful if this plugin could overlay video filenames on top of these icons, the same as the Media Library does for videos that are uploaded directly to it through the built-in WordPress method.