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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...
I just upgraded my account pro plus and it appears to me playback quality online seems low res.
The file dowloads full resolution and looks great but not during playback online thru dropbox. Is there a setting for this?
Robert S.
Super User alumni
Super User alumniWill Dropbox be thinking of ways to allow high resolution streaming?
Dropbox don't reveal their product roadmap, but if I were to hazard a guess I'd think not.
Dropbox have never given any indication they wish to be a content streaming platform, which is what that would steer them towards. Add the fact of bandwidth being a major cost factor to the company, a cost burden which would increase significantly if they chose to adopt higher quality streaming. All in all, I just don't see it.
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
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.
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