/flashmediaelement.swf file missing and causing slow loading on GT Metrix

So after some more research, when I minify javascript with any caching plugin is when it can’t find this file in the root folder. With minification off the file is located at /wp-includes/js/mediaelement/flashmediaelement.swf and it finds it correctly. It’s only that file that has issues with the minification though??

The theme loads this js file /wp-includes/js/mediaelement/wp-mediaelement.js which refers to that swf file

So if I go into W3 total cache and exclude that one js file /wp-includes/js/mediaelement/wp-mediaelement.js … there are no more 404 errors for the swf file

But now there are still 3 files in the GT Metrix waterfall that are adding around 2 seconds of load time that are directly related to this script::

* MediaElement.js
* HTML5 <video> and <audio> shim and player
* http://mediaelementjs.com/
*
* Creates a JavaScript object that mimics HTML5 MediaElement API
* for browsers that don’t understand HTML5 or can’t play the provided codec
* Can play MP4 (H.264), Ogg, WebM, FLV, WMV, WMA, ACC, and MP3
*
* Copyright 2010-2014, John Dyer (http://j.hn)
* License: MIT

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