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iggypop
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10 months ago

Slow playback when streaming with AVPlayer

We’re building an iOS App that streams mp4 video files from DropBox. We use SDK’s getTemporaryLink method and feed the returned URL to AVPlayer(url: …). The streaming doesn’t start until after a few ...
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iggypop
New member | Level 2
9 months ago

The problem is not only in the app but also in Safari when opening the links obtained with getTemporaryLink. rlkey=YYY&st=dop7lgeglong time to load.

https://XXXXX.dl.dropboxusercontent.com/cd/0/get/ZZZZZZZZZZZ/file


When we use links obtained through the usual sharing mechanism and add “raw=1” to them they display the same behavior. Video loads slowly

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/XXXX/ZZZ.MP4?rlkey=YYY&st=dop7lgeg&dl=0&raw=1

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