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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 ...
Please try this https://uc335f53789e85f975b742674075.dl.dropboxusercontent.com/cd/0/get/ClxBsDdKU4RVs4g97_SerqyG5Pv3jcqxbDLA2VyL5_30-llr43eMd5tInoBBiLUE-EtHfT-QmfFwj0kkEGzyOemZ3gSyDCc_g-eyatxDgMVwwqeR25K193sAQv5DMREuVJHPbz5S73m-xbB3Nnb8-JhND3GtY9ZosuTX5-QgIwzF1w/file
- DB-Des
Dropbox Community Moderator
Thank you for providing an additional link.
I just reviewed the documentation for /files/get_temporary_link and realized it explicitly states that these links should not be used to display content directly in the browser:
Get a temporary link to stream content of a file. This link will expire in four hours and afterwards you will get 410 Gone. This URL should not be used to display content directly in the browser. The Content-Type of the link is determined automatically by the file's mime type.
This also applies to streaming directly within an iOS app using the AVPlayer component.
Additionally, I noticed that the latest file you shared is over 50GB. That file size alone could be affecting playback latency, especially on certain devices or network conditions. Large files can take longer to load and may struggle with smooth streaming, particularly in browsers that don’t handle large media files efficiently.
we are still facing huge performance problems with our app.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/67kwaw75pnytjwcqm12ak/video_performance.MP4?rlkey=blbpqtuvgkvsmp2s8aayq0adp&dl=0
See this clip, first we play through dropbox app, it starts pretty soon. Afterwards same video through our own app, it takes much longer to start up.
The video to be played can be found here https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6h40imwb8dh8n1dju7ze1/IMG_21161.mp4?rlkey=pkgu8obx6blu3t6huf9n53299&dl=0
thank you very much :-)
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