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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...
Well, in this case, Dropbox at least should consider, informing the users, to download the video in order to get the full HD quality.
Here is my case:
1. I record various tips and tricks using QuickTime
2. I save the video directly to my Dropbox folder
3. Share the video with my clients
Now they will see a very low quality of that screencast, with no way to inform them that they can download the video to see in HD quality - I get that they don't want to provide this way directly into the player itself, but still, they should consider taking into consideration their clients feedback.
For example, Google Drive - still the same service as Dropbox, offers ways to see the video in HD.
Rich
Super User II
Super User II
uEduard wrote:
Well, in this case, Dropbox at least should consider, informing the users, to download the video in order to get the full HD quality.
They already do. The message appears if the video is paused, or when the 15-minute preview time has been reached.
- That message should be all the time, not if you pause the video of 15 minutes have passed. My videos are no longer than a few minutes so that should be displayed all the time.
- What I need is preventing the user to open the video. Only download should be allowed. Not giving the opportunity to watch this rubbish is essential.
- Mark
Hi Derloopkat - when you send the link alter it so that it is forced to download
https://help.dropbox.com/desktop-web/force-download- Thanks for the solution. It's hilarious this is even an issue. When you share a file with someone, you expect that they're going to receive, bit-for-bit, the exact file intended—not some transcoded, inferior garbage version. If I wanted someone to mangle my video files, YouTube already does a perfectly acceptable job of that. Dropbox is basically using people's ignorance as a way to try to save bandwidth under the guise of a feature. Sure it's possible to share videos in full quality...that is, if you're willing to take the time to figure out how to do it. Silly. Glad I'm not paying for this abomination.
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