How to make my videos on S3 stream instead of download

Overview

You uploaded a .mp4 file to an S3 bucket on Pathfinder and generated a web URL. Now when you connect it simply downloads the file, but you’d rather have it stream. You need to change the http header and Content-Type associated with the file.

How to fix

Using CloudBerry as an example follow these steps:

1. Right click the file and select “Set http headers”

   1. You’ll get this window:
      
      

      Open

      

       

   2. The issues is “Content-Type” is set to binary/octet-stream.
      
      

2. Highlight Content-Type and select edit.

3. Change the Content-Type to video/mp4 or use the drop down box to select the proper file type.

4. Hit ok and the file should now stream.