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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...
Rich
Super User II
Super User IIAs 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.
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.
Rich,
then why would you say that the quality of the stream depends on the speed of your internet connection?
if dropbox is thinking about different qualities of a stream for different bandwithes, why are they only making the preview worse and not better with a faster internet connection?
Just trying to understand...
And also, it is not about wanting to use another service just for streaming...it is about sharing stuff and of course(!) also videos with you colleagues to describe a certain scenario for example, and they just do not want to download the video to their computer for that.
I do not undertand why you talk against that so much mate. It's not like you want to use dropbox like youtube or netflix or whatever.
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