Here's how to store your videos on Dropbox and deliver them via SmartVideo.
If you are using our WordPress plugin:
1. Upload your video to Dropbox.
2. Click the ellipsis and click Copy link.
3. Paste the copied URL into the Video Url field of the SmartVideo widget:
4. If you would like the video to be able to playback while the file is processed by SmartVideo, change the "dl=0" to "dl=1" in the URL provided by Dropbox. If you use the URL as is and do not change "dl=0" to "dl=1", the video will be ready for playback once fully imported and optimized by SmartVideo.
And that's it!
If you are not using our WordPress plugin
1. Copy the SmartVideo tag below and paste it where you wish to embed the video.
<smartvideo src="path/to/my/video.mp4" width="1280" height="720" class="swarm-fluid" controls> </smartvideo>
2. Back on Dropbox, click the ellipsis and click Copy link.
3. Then, paste the Dropbox link into the SmartVideo HTML tag, replacing the path/to/my/video.mp4 placeholder.
4. If you would like the video to be able to playback while the file is processed by SmartVideo, change the "dl=0" to "dl=1" in the URL provided by Dropbox. If you use the URL as is and do not change "dl=0" to "dl=1", the video will be ready for playback once fully imported and optimized by SmartVideo.
Your video is now ready to be embedded on your site and delivered by SmartVideo!
Item of note: Unfortunately, Dropbox doesn't support using images hosted on Dropbox for manually setting a Thumbnail/Poster image.