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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!

Yes. There is no communication between CVG and the WP Media Manager.

Here’s another related issue. It seems that if you want to change a preview image, there’s no way to do that unless you delete & re-upload the video, too. Am I wrong?

I think you’re missing the point.

Right now, the only way I see to link preview images to videos is to upload them via the link in the plugin. Manually uploading (FTP) doesn’t do anything.

So, you upload your video, then use the links in the Manager area to upload one preview image at a time. Fine. Good. You’re done. It’s tedious, but it works.

Until you need to change something. Let’s say you decide to make a small edit to an existing video. You delete the video, make the change, then upload it again.

Now, to add a preview image, you have to upload another file. Not that big of a deal, unless you have to do this for a number of videos. I’m suggesting a simple change to the plugin: Allow for the linking of videos to ALREADY UPLOADED IMAGES. It can’t be any harder to code than the drop-down lists of galleries or videos. And it doesn’t matter where you want them to be located. It’s your plugin. You decide that.

I would love to find out that I’m missing something here, and that I can use already uploaded images (maybe use the same image more than once?!!), but so far it’s just an annoying process that could be made simple.

Hi Praveen,

Thanks for the response, but that’s not going to work for me. FFMPEG has a cost associated with it, and it’s just not worth it. Have you thought about adding the option to link to images uploaded to a folder?