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Improving Dropbox video preview quality - thinking outside the box
The poor quality of the Dropbox transcoded preview has been discussed over the years, particularly between 2015-2017. Over the last six years, internet speeds have changed remarkably and online stre...
Please do "?dl=1" by default in client(right click "copy Dropbox link").
"?dl=0" give bad video quality and full useless for me.
"?dl=0" give bad video quality and full useless for me.
Just for those guys who are wondering...
I tested every possible format for videos and looked if some formats work better than others...
Answer: No.
Tried mov, mp4, avi, prores, m4v . And everything with different scales.
Please Dropbox, fix this. Everything else works great. And it is not a thing of how fast your internet connection is, you guys know that.
Glad to see this issue is gaining traction. I still have no hope that this issue will be resolved anytime soon....as already mentioned our business has been using it for 3 years now and this issue has since remained.....Dropbox are too busy installing their free 20Gb bloatware on new laptops than actually looking as to how they can improve their product.....
If they would just implement the stanard thing every normal Browser does when opening a ftp server link.
It's just streaming the normal size of the video, that is it. Nothing fancy.
It's definitley not easy for me to defend Dropbox against the opinion of our CEO ... "Why do we have to pay 10 Dollar for each one of our company if our FTP server can do a better job there..."
Again, we love Dropbox for what it can do. But this is a everyday use case! Not only for us!- Rich
Super User II
As has been stated, there is nothing to fix here. The preview of a video is just that; a preview. It is not intended to be the high-resolution original video that you uploaded. It is a transcoded preview of the original file, limited to 15 minutes of playback. If you want to see the original video in its original quality, you need to download the file an play it locally.
Simply put, Dropbox is not a video streaming service. If that's what you need, then you should be using a service that's meant specifically for streaming.
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