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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?
Rich
Super User II
Super User IIWhat's the point of saving space on my hard drive
That's not the purpose of Dropbox. Yes, it can help save space with Selective Sync, but that is not what Dropbox is meant for. It's a synchronization service, not a cloud-based folder or drive. The entire point of Dropbox is that it keeps a copy of your files on your computer and in your account online. Any features other than file sync are secondary. This includes sharing and streaming. They're extra features built on top of a file synchronization platform.
Most other people I know making videos use wetransfer and vimeo plus
Vimeo can import your videos directly from your Dropbox account, without having to upload them again.
I have 100MB/S upload speed.
What does that have to do with the quality of a preview video? Also, you have 100Mb/s upload speed to your ISP. You don't have 100Mb/s upload (or download) speed to every server on the Internet. Your actual speed will depend on distance, network traffic, server and computer load, and a number of other factors that all play their part.
- In the previous replies, it is mentioned that Dropbox adjust video quality depending on your our internet speed. I have more than 50 Mbps speed but it still show very low quality (I think it's 240p) while the other cloud services show me the same video on same network HD.
- Please do "?dl=1" by default in client(right click "copy Dropbox link").
"?dl=0" give bad video quality and full useless for me.Just for those guys who are wondering...
I tested every possible format for videos and looked if some formats work better than others...
Answer: No.
Tried mov, mp4, avi, prores, m4v . And everything with different scales.
Please Dropbox, fix this. Everything else works great. And it is not a thing of how fast your internet connection is, you guys know that.
Glad to see this issue is gaining traction. I still have no hope that this issue will be resolved anytime soon....as already mentioned our business has been using it for 3 years now and this issue has since remained.....Dropbox are too busy installing their free 20Gb bloatware on new laptops than actually looking as to how they can improve their product.....
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