Need to see if your shared folder is taking up space on your dropbox 👨💻? Find out how to check here.
Forum Discussion
peterv43
3 years agoHelpful | Level 6
videos won't play
Recently uploaded two MP4 videos in dropbox. When I click on them they start to play for about a 10th of a second and then quit and go back to list of videos.I have no idea why won't play. I don't ha...
- 3 years ago
Wednesday, 2/25.....my videos play perfectly now. Fingers crossed.
ebrookenorthrip
3 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Still happening for me as well.
YellowBear
3 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Tried a fresh login on a private browser session with 0 extensions and cookies and it only temporarily worked, before the usual problems of kicking me out of various videos arose.
I didn't change ANYTHING with my browser or extensions in the last months, and yet the problem started around a week ago out of the blue, even with videos that I have watched plenty of times without problems in the past.
I am on firefox. The problem seems to be especially strong on longer videos, with some shorter videos being able to be played, but also buffering longer than usual and expected...
This whole thing doesn't sound like user error to me tbh. Especially because clearing cookies or changing to private browsing only brings temporarily relief. And multiple users on here having the same exact problem-description, around the same timeframe.
Sounds more like the preview-player function got messed up on dropbox end, as its consistently and reproducible happening over multiple sessions.
I am actually a paying customer with monthly subscription, which sucks, if the problem isn't going to be investigated and fixed this month, I don't see a reason to not cancel.
- peterv433 years agoHelpful | Level 6
ditto...all except browser(chrome)
- YellowBear3 years agoExplorer | Level 4
firefox Version 109.0.1 (64-bit)
About View, download, and export
Need support with viewing, downloading, and exporting files and folders from your Dropbox account? Find help from the Dropbox Community.
The Dropbox Community team is active from Monday to Friday. We try to respond to you as soon as we can, usually within 2 hours.
If you need more help you can view your support options (expected response time for an email or ticket is 24 hours), or contact us on X, Facebook or Instagram.
For more info on available support options for your Dropbox plan, see this article.
If you found the answer to your question in this Community thread, please 'like' the post to say thanks and to let us know it was useful!