ISSUE SUMMARY:

If a video is saved in Amazon S3, the link on the thumbnail points to a video file as though it was were saved as part of the site, not remotely. If viewed from the video list menu item though, the correct source is used.

STEPS TO REPLICATE:
1 Post a video that's hosted on S3
2 Click on thumbnail, video player starts but nothing happens
3 View sourcecode for page, SRC link for video will not be S3 storage, but as though video were normal website hosted.

RESULT
video will not play when launched from activity stream

EXPECTED RESULT
correct link needs to be used so video plays

BROWSER
chrome

HI, Matt.

Where I could see that issue on your site?

www.matt74uk.co.uk/index.php/jomsocial

Click the thumbnail in the activity stream, video player starts but the video will never play as it thinks the file is on the local server.
Go to latest videos and click the thumbnail, new page opens with full size video and it plays.

Hi, Matt.

You're right. In backend is fine: matt74uk.s3.amazonaws.com/images/videos/365/yzHFTPjN2dR.mp4 but in frontend it tries to looks for local file.

I assign developer to this thread.

hi Matt,

This is bug, already reported to our developer.

thank you

this is how to fix the issue

1. open this file components/com_community/templates/jomsocial/layouts/stream/base-extended.php
2. add this code :

if($video->type ==='file'){
                       $storage    = CStorage::getStorage($video->storage);
                        $path = $storage->getURI($video->path);
                    } else {
                        $path = $video->path;
                   }

if ( isset($video) ) {

data-path="<?php echo ( $video->type === 'file' ? JURI::root(true) . '/' : '' ) . $video->path ?>">

data-path="<?php echo $path ?>">

This fixes the issue when the video is first posted, but exactly the same thing happens if someone then latter comments on a video.

Hi Matt,

Thank you, we will fix it..