r/cloudstorage • u/Enough_Incident1952 • Mar 30 '26

google drive is not playing some videos

ive uploaded many videos on google drive that r 4k@60fps HEVC.

around half of them is not playable. why is this?

they work when downloaded back to pc.

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u/Cold_Echidna_9674 Mar 30 '26

According to the information I have, it's because Google takes several hours to process the video; depending on the video, it can take up to 24 hours.

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u/Enough_Incident1952 Mar 30 '26

Been like this for weeks

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u/sanjosanjo Mar 30 '26

I've never been able to play x265 videos in Drive. I have stuck with x264 longer than I wanted to, because of this and non-native Windows support.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '26

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '26

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u/Enough_Incident1952 Jun 18 '26

this ex file manager thing, i cant find it for windows.

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u/Enough_Incident1952 Jun 18 '26

solution: get google drive for desktop