Amazon S3 problem with viewing video

Apr 20, 2012

By Juan Orozco

I just open a account with Amazon S3 and FTP a test file using Cyberduck but the flash video won't work.

Any suggestions?

Here is a link: http://escpresentations.s3.amazonaws.com/innovation1/player.html

12 Replies

Peter Anderson
Staff

12 years ago04/20/12 at 8:58 am (UTC)

Hi Juan,

Did you embed the YouTube video using these guidelines? Or did you insert the video in another fashion?

Juan Orozco
Author

12 years ago04/20/12 at 9:03 am (UTC)

It's a flash video.

Juan Orozco
Author

12 years ago04/20/12 at 9:08 am (UTC)

I inserted the flash video into the presentation. It works fine on my computer.

I made sure the video name is short and lower case.

Peter Anderson
Staff

12 years ago04/20/12 at 9:19 am (UTC)

Have you had a chance to review our best practices for Flash movies to see if you can identify a possible issue?

Juan Orozco
Author

12 years ago04/20/12 at 9:49 am (UTC)

Yes I have read the documentation and I was able to load it in our Moodle LMS with no problems.

It has to be a setting in s3.

Peter Anderson
Staff

12 years ago04/20/12 at 10:50 am (UTC)

Hmm, it doesn't seem likely because I know others have been able to play videos through Amazon, but occasionally there are issues with servers not supporting FLV MIME types.

Juan Orozco
Author

12 years ago04/20/12 at 2:24 pm (UTC)

I got it. It was a permissions thing in Amazon s3. I had to select player.html, data, and player folder and mark it Read for everyone and that did the trick so the video will play now.

Take a look:

http://escpresentations.s3.amazonaws.com/example/player.html

kevin systorm

12 years ago04/21/12 at 3:16 am (UTC)

Useful topic. Im a newbie at Amazon S3. I will try to use it from now on. BTW, if your Amazon video purchases are protected by DRM, you need to bypass DRM from Amazon video on demand before you copy them to other media devices.