Watching videos on Google Drive is going to be much faster

If you are a Google Drive user, then you’ve likely tried to stream some of your saved videos using the platform. Well, using Google Drive to stream videos hasn’t been the best. Fortunately, Google Drive will use the DASH protocol when screaming videos, so the experience will be much better.

When streaming videos on Google Drive, the video player doesn’t take into account how fast or slow your internet connection is. This means that you will experience a lot of buffering if your connection isn’t the greatest. Video streaming platforms like YouTube, on the other hand, will raise or lower the resolution based on your connection speed. This is one thing that helps keep the streaming experience smooth.

  Google Drive will use the DASH protocol for streaming videos

If you are confused about what DASH is, it stands for Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP. This will automatically adjust the bit rate of the video you’re watching so that it can play better no matter how weak your connection is. Also, videos will start faster when you open them.

The introduction of DASH will make watching videos on Google Drive a much more streamlined experience. Google will enable DASH for new videos going forward. As for videos that already exist on the platform, it’ll be a while before you see DASH make it to them. Google plans to update existing videos on Drive by the end of the year. So, that’s 10 months we will have to wait.

Simplified navigation

Finding different content types on Google Drive is about to change a bit for the mobile app. Normally, when you are searching for files using the search bar, you will see a horizontally scrolling carousel of chips right under the search bar. These chips would all be specific types of files like documents, PDFs, images and videos, Etc.

Well, in a future update, Google will move all of those file types into a drop-down menu. So, when you are in the search section, you will see three drop-down menus where the chips used to be. There will be three drop-down menus. The first one is called “Type,” and it will show you all of the different document types. The second one is called “People,” and it will show you all of the contacts you’ve communicated with on Drive. The last drop-down menu is called “Modified,” and it will show you your most recently modified files.

Google is currently rolling these features out to Drive, so you should expect them within the coming weeks.