I have a 4 Gig Video that I am hosting on DropBox that I would like to play on my Site. I was able to setup the player locally and play a YouTube video. However, when I link to the DropBox video link, I am getting an error message about "Error loading media: File could not be played."
Is there a way to resolve this issue?
thank you for your support...
I don’t think I’ve ever heard of this working before, as I do not believe Dropbox makes video content available via a direct URL. Does your Dropbox URL end in a video extension like .mp4 or .m3u8?
don't use dropbox, too slow.
No- one can help you without a link to the player
@ Todd. It is possible when using the OLD LEGACY sharing folders. They took it away for new customers a year or two ago.
Bottom line, forget it!! it is better to use Amazon S3
Yes, the DropBox URL ends in mp4 and can be played directly on DropBox, or downloaded to the User's PC, via a ?dl=0/1 estension at the tail of the URL.
Actually, you are correct about speed. I took the advice from another post and tested the video from here: http://demo.jwplayer.com/hls-tester/
It sat for awhile and it finally played, with some sound out of synch sometimes. Overall, it played.
Given that I had to wait at least 5 minutes for the video to satrt playing, it does not make sense to use that approach.
I have created the Amazon S3 account and looking at the settings. What would be the best bucket to use? Would the Static Website Hosting be a good choice to push that 5 Gig Video?
@mark... thank you for referring me to Amazon S3. I posted a question for you. :)
sandaire:
Great
No you don't use static website.
Just create a bucket with your preferred name, then you will need to add a crossdomain.xml and CORS config to the bucket, details are in the JW Player documents.
You also need to make the bucket public ( give everyone read permissions) otherwise the files can't be accessed.
Can you tell me, any media`s where we are able to upload our videos, and add them to jw player with "Add URL".
And is it possible to do this with mediafire? I made acc there also got premium, and when i put direct link in "Add URL" on video i get: Error loading media: File not found.
Here is the link: http://www.mediafire.com/watch/omaajuvno8632i8/The.Simpsons.S26E08.HDTV.x264-KILLERS.mp4
Ty for the help in advance!
Can you tell me, any media`s where we are able to upload our videos, and add them to jw player with "Add URL".
And is it possible to do this with mediafire? I made acc there also got premium, and when i put direct link in "Add URL" on video i get: Error loading media: File not found.
Here is the link: http://www.mediafire.com/watch/omaajuvno8632i8/The.Simpsons.S26E08.HDTV.x264-KILLERS.mp4
Ty for the help in advance!
Sorry for doublepost but im still waiting for answer..
I know this looks like a generic MP4 video URL, but http://www.mediafire.com/watch/omaajuvno8632i8/The.Simpsons.S26E08.HDTV.×264-KILLERS.mp4 loads an actual web page with its own player, so that is not something you can add to your account dashboard.
I guess the best rule would be this: check the URL to see if it loads a video directly in your browser without any other web page stuff. If you can right-click on the page and view the page source, the URL is almost guaranteed not to work in our player.
