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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...
Why does Dropbox compress video files and how to you change this?
Rich
Super User II
Super User IIEven though the folder contains only one file, the result was a .zip file.
That's because you're linking to a folder, and a folder will always download as a Zip. You need to link directly to the file.
In your computer, move the file to the Public folder in the Dropbox folder. Locate the file, right click and select Copy Public Link.
This isn't necessary. Just create a share link to your file (not the folder). If the link already has ?dl=0 at the end of it, change it to a 1. If it doesn't, add ?dl=1 to the end of it.
In fact, when I tried decompressing the .zip file, I was told the file was unplayable.
There are some limits to the Zip process on Dropbox. The total size cannot exceed 1GB or 10,000 files, otherwise a corrupted Zip file could be created.
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