This product was not featured by Product Hunt yet. It will not be visible on their landing page and won't be ranked (cannot win product of the day regardless of upvotes).
Finally a simple way to actually play my Drive videos without downloading everything first, just picked a movie folder and it streamed right away. Wish I'd had this months ago when I was juggling work files.
Does it stream straight from Drive or does it have to sync files locally first, and is that gonna eat up my bandwidth on big video files?
Finally a simple way to stream Drive videos on my laptop without downloading them first. Works exactly as advertised and the playback is smooth.
Finally something simple for playing Drive videos on desktop without weird workarounds. Loaded a 2gb mp4 and it just started playing.
does this stream directly from google drive or does it download the files first? wondering how it handles bandwidth and storage on my end
finally a way to actually watch my drive videos without downloading first, the minimalist player UI feels really well thought out.
finally something that lets me stream my drive videos without downloading them first, the playback was smooth on my mac and it picked up my folder structure right away. small thing but huge for me
Finally a simple way to watch my Drive videos without opening a browser tab. Streamed a 4K file and it didn't stutter once, which I was not expecting.
About DrivePlayer on Product Hunt
“desktop app for playing google drive files ”
DrivePlayer was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 5 upvotes and 11 comments, placing #78 on the daily leaderboard. play google drive files in desktop.
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Does this stream the files straight from Drive so I am not eating up local disk space, and is there any lag when skipping through longer videos?