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How to prevent download option from dropbox video player?
I use share links of videos to put on my website and I change the end paramters to "raw=1" to make this happen. All is fine except for the fact that anyone can click the 3 dots and download the video...
Thanks for the reply. I realize anyone can download my video if they really want to. But most people looking at wedding videos won't even bother/want to use external methods to download a video. I just don't like the fact on how obvious Dropbox can notify viewers how easy anyone can just directly download the video. It would be nice like on how Google Drive I can embed videos and there is no direct option to download the video.
Ooohh... If the problems are default browser player options, they could be disabled using different approaches. Overflow the player with a <div> tag, for example, and redirect clicks alternatively to play and pause. :wink: No very powerful but simple solution. You can use HTML like following (as idea):
<div>
<div style="width: 320px;height: 240px;position: absolute;"
onclick="a=this.nextSibling; if(a.paused) a.play(); else a.pause()"/>
<video width="320" height="240">
<source src="<raw link to the clip>" type="video/mp4">
Your browser does not support the video tag.
</video>
</div>Unfortunately Dropbox don't allow their player embedding. Would be more convenient (and secure, if the above is used as a compare base), but... :slight_frown:
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