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Force render issues (raw=1) and shared links won't work for hosting.
images were perfect on all browsers until yesterday afternoon - what is the fix or is this a dropbox issue?
We are rolling out a fix for issues with raw=1 and dl=1 links that started recently. Please try again and let us know if it's still not working.
Hi,
I'm running a couple of WordPress websites and using the FV Flowplayer plugin to show off my Dropbox videos.
I'm doing all of the usual edits, eg re-naming the end of the Dropbox file from dl=0 to raw=1 which was working fine up until a couple of days ago.
Since then, I get an error message: html5: Video not found: and regardless of how many times I refresh the websites' cache or indeed perform a 'Clear Browsing Data' on Chrome and Firefox (or a hard refresh with ctrl+f5), the error message remains.
How can the error message be fixed?
tia
Regards,
Steve Raven
- Rich
Super User II
Steve Raven wrote:
I'm running a couple of WordPress websites and using the FV Flowplayer plugin to show off my Dropbox videos. ... I get an error message: html5: Video not found ...
Do the links work if you paste them into a browser window directly? If so, then it's likely an issue with how the player tries to access the file. Dropbox links have a redirect in them (the final URL of the file is different from the link you're give by Dropbox). If the player isn't able to follow that redirect, it won't be able to load the file.
If the links work in a browser on their own, I'd go back to the plug-in creator and ask them to look into it. With the change to how links are generated, they likely need to update their plugin.
Thanks, Rich, I just tried a couple of different URLs in a browser window.
The link ending in raw=1 played immediately.
I also tried changing the link to the Dropbox original of dl=0, which just opened the file in the Dropbox web app, which is obviously why the raw=1 URL is preferred.
I'll get onto the plugin developer about this.
What the plugin developer said (last week)
The reason why it does not play in FV Player is that it probably checks some of the HTTP request headers, such as the referrer header. When I insert it using bare HTML5 video tag it won’t play either.
And...
So it’s not a problem with FV Player, but a more general issue.
I found that it actually depends on the dropbox.com cookies which your browser has.
So the Dropbox link cannot play the video reliably, as they probably don’t want you to be using their services for video playback anyway.
So there you go, It's Dropboxes fault, and NOT the FV Player plugin 🙂
