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iggypop
New member | Level 2
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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austincase
New member | Level 1
9 months ago

Hello - Thanks for the reply. Here is a shared link for the folder we are using. Our platform does not work with shared links but rather users folders directly, if that makes a difference.
Something we have noticed is that on longer HEVC videos, the problem is worse... it looks like the issue might be that the incremental RANGE headers are not being respected by Dropbox and thus the browser is having to basically download the entirety of the file before it plays back the first frame. This is a hypothesis and seems weird that it would be isolated to HEVC videos, but this is what we are noticing.

Let me know any other information I can provide and I appreciate your help

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DB-Des
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9 months ago

Hi austincase,

Looks like the shared link is missing. Are you able to provide it again?

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