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Embedding a video into web-page

Is the last few years of embedding Dropbox videos into a web page a thing of the past? Was there a recent update - maybe within the last few days?

Embedded videos suddenly stopped working and the latest "tip and trick" is from 2017 which isn't useful.

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Здравко

@Pat Sheehan wrote:
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Embedded videos suddenly stopped working and the latest "tip and trick" is from 2017 which isn't useful.

Hi @Pat Sheehan,

What you mean with "Embedded"? 🧐 Do you use embedder or direct raw link? I just checked and embedder works as usual. If you use raw links to embed your content, the wrong thing is not at your side, it's at Dropbox side. There is a bug when Ranges are used with any type of request (web browsers use them a lot) - content type is wrong declared and that's why browser gets confused. Let's hope this bug will be fixed soon.

Hope this clarifies matter.

jvahle

Same thing here, all my videos stopped working as of today.

Pat Sheehan

Thanks for your reply. Good to know.

Am not using a content management system. Website is updated using Dreamweaver.

I thought it might be a browser issue initially. Was using Opera, then checked with Chrome browser and the result with Chrome browser was some worked and some didn't. Then nothing worked. Did a cache and registry check/clean. Didn't help. Used a different computer - same issue.

This is the video code that's been embedded into my webpages for years:

Was NOT using the type="video/mp4?dl=0 or the type="video/mp4?raw=1 code after video/mp4 as some have mentioned but did try it but no luck there either.

Also tried using <source src="https://www.dropbox.com/s/xxrdnssnfl85aho/roll-video-eng.mp4" type="video/mp4"> Didn't work either.

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Pat Sheehan

Video code embedded into webpage. No CMS widgets. Using Dreamweaver for updates.

This is the video code that's been embedded into my webpages for years. All Dropbox hosted videos affected.

Was NOT using the type="video/mp4?dl=0 or the type="video/mp4?raw=1 code after video/mp4 as some have mentioned but did try it but no luck there either.

Also tried using <source src="https://www.dropbox.com/s/xxrdnssnfl85aho/roll-video-eng.mp4" type="video/mp4"> Didn't work either.

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Здравко

@Pat Sheehan wrote:
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I thought it might be a browser issue initially. ...

No, no, no... definitely no. Range download mode is something standard and widely used. It's the way to consume video (and not only) stream as needed (no need to download everything at once). It's the way every browser is using (or most of them, at least). If the video file is too small - ~100kB (i.e. downloaded in one step), it's still possible to work (before fixing the bug). Otherwise you can't do anything, more than move to embedder temporary. It's Dropbox' server bug.

Здравко

By the way, I just checked and seems to be fixed already. Do you see that issue still?

Pat Sheehan

Wow, just checked and looks like things are back to normal.

Thank you...

Pat Sheehan

Wait... Seems to be off and on. Now off again

JDLintz

This seems to be an issue again today.

Pat Sheehan

Checked my website. Seems to be working for me at 1:45 pm EST. I don't use a content management system like Wordpad, I just copy and paste the HTML code into a web page using the Dreamweaver HTML editor.

A new thing in browsers. If you have the video set to "autoplay", the video will start but there'll be no sound. I removed the "autoplay" verbiage so now the play button has to be clicked by the user to start the video but there'll be sound.

Just discovered this a month or so ago...

europe89

Can I embed videos from Dropbox to put on my website?

Mark

Dropbox isnt a hosting service so things on websites are not going to always play well.

Please use the correct tool for this and find a hosting service you can use. You are saving yourself lots of trouble in the long run.