Hi Brian,
We have looked into this issue, since the same has been reported by many users of BuddyPress Media.
As you might know we are working very hard towards our next release of rtMedia 3.0. We have already fixed this issue in rtMedia 3.0; since we have made a lot of changes in the current workflow of the plugin and it will be a total independent plugin from BuddyPress or any other dependency.
You can check out the code of the current development of the plugin at : rtMedia Github Repo. You can download the code and install it. Though it is under development and may not guarantee to work without any error. You can revert back to us with your feedback about rtMedia.
Regards.