Title: Buffer Length S3 WordPress Plugin?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Buffer Length S3 WordPress Plugin?

 *  [zepher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zepher/)
 * (@zepher)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/buffer-length-s3-wordpress-plugin/)
 * Hi, everything installed and linked up good for me. The only issue I’m having
   is when I play videos it will only play once the whole clip is buffered. I can
   scrub the slider on the video and see the video, then press play and it will 
   play without it buffering to the end, but only if I scrub the slider. I tried
   both the flowplayer and the other one and both have the same issue. I’m wanting
   to put some of my longer form video projects in the S3 bucket, but I’m having
   the buffering issues and wonder if anyone has has similar issues or something
   I’ve missed on config. Thanks!
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/s3-video/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/s3-video/)

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 *  [Tevya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thefiddler/)
 * (@thefiddler)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/buffer-length-s3-wordpress-plugin/#post-3411356)
 * The problem is your metadata or “headers” are at the end of your video files.
   So until the entire video file loads, the player doesn’t know how long it is 
   or any of that, and therefore won’t stream it. You can get a program like [http://rndware.info/products/metadata-mover.html](http://rndware.info/products/metadata-mover.html)
   to move the headers/meta to the beginning of the video file, and that should 
   fix your problem.
 *  Plugin Author [Anthony Mills](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anthony_mills/)
 * (@anthony_mills)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/buffer-length-s3-wordpress-plugin/#post-3411424)
 * Thanks Tevya thats a good tip.
 *  [Tevya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thefiddler/)
 * (@thefiddler)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/buffer-length-s3-wordpress-plugin/#post-3411425)
 * I dealt with this when using JW Player. Took me a while to figure it out, so 
   I thought I’d share. Unfortunately most NLE’s don’t put the meta at the beginning,
   so you have to do this on all video files before uploading. Or if they do, only
   the very latest versions do this.
 *  Plugin Author [Anthony Mills](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anthony_mills/)
 * (@anthony_mills)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/buffer-length-s3-wordpress-plugin/#post-3411433)
 * Nice one its good to know, I have never come across it personally. But when transcoding
   videos there is always alot of variables that can cause you problems, so its 
   always good to have one more trick in your bag if a video is causing issues 🙂
 *  [emptymind](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emptymind/)
 * (@emptymind)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/buffer-length-s3-wordpress-plugin/#post-3411563)
 * My video files will not buffer but only in this player. They stream immediately
   in other players. They are h.264 movs.
    Any ideas?
 * Also I always get the Flowplayer no matter what I select.
 * Thanks.
 *  [emptymind](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emptymind/)
 * (@emptymind)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/buffer-length-s3-wordpress-plugin/#post-3411564)
 * I just tried the shortcode – which uses jsvideo and buffering was fine, so it
   is flowplayer issue not my video.
 * Problem is that the embed code only use flowplayer right? The area I want to 
   use video will not play the shortcode.

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 * Last reply from: [emptymind](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emptymind/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/buffer-length-s3-wordpress-plugin/#post-3411564)
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