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Robert K JSS Tech
Explorer | Level 4
5 years ago

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...
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Vision Video Pr
Helpful | Level 5
11 years ago

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?

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Robert S.
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11 years ago

While not being totally unsympathetic, I'd note that Google own YouTube and their own data centres, so the infrastructure and income streams to offset bandwidth costs are there. With bandwidth being a major cost component for Dropbox (who have no comparable means to directly offset that cost), the question then becomes, 'how much am I willing to pay for higher quality streaming?'

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