The new Drive app builds in features from Google Photos, Backup and Sync, and Drive File Stream. Any users still on Backup and Sync or Drive File Stream after Oct 1, 2021, will no longer be able to sign in and will need to transition to Google Drive for desktop. Google recently announced that its Backup and Sync and Drive File Stream users will need to move to a new, unified sync app called Google Drive for desktop. Google Backup and Sync and Google Drive File Stream Combine into New App You can also choose to keep the files or folders offline for editing, and the next time you connect to the internet, those changes will be synced to Google Drive on the web. I spent a lot of time trying to get around this (inc building a google drive app with the api), I'm afraid it looks like there's no way round it.ĭon't use google drive to serve up video in html unless you know all your users will be authenticated with google.Google Drive File Stream is a software application that allows you to access your Google Drive data easily without losing your precious drive space by directly mounting them as a virtual drive on your local machine.
I've done a bit more reading and I'm afraid the video will only play on browsers that are logged into a google account. That said, I'd be interested to see some proper documentation from google on it - I want to use this in production, but feel like I need to do more reading to be confident. Ī lot of people seem to be suggesting creating an API app in order to get the file ID, but it looks like you can guess it pretty easy. Now I've got a video working with the following html. I've cut what I guessed to be the file ID from the URL - 0B4BsAbG4atWHQzVfLUU3UnhhZTAĪnd added it to metal7's url to create a src attribute for a source tag Google then gives me a link to share that looks like In google drive I placed the video file in a publicly shared folder then rightclick the file and select share > share.
OK, I've just managed to get this working as follows.
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