VideoPress content_width bug?

I’m not sure if this is a bug or note, or perhaps me just using the VideoPress plugin incorrectly.

I inserted into my functions.php file the following code:
global $content_width; $content_width = 620;

I then inserted the shortcode into my post:
[wpvideo xyz]

No matter what I did, the player would always be at a width of 400px.

I dived into the code and made this change, and it fixed it (around line 274). Please correct me if I’m using the plugin incorrectly.

if ( $content_width < $default_width ) {
	$width  = $content_width;
} else if ( $content_width > 630 ) {
	$width  = 640;
} else {
	$width = $content_width;
}

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