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There's a Dropbox help article on how to do this. See the section titled "Render a file in your browser." However, using an iframe, I tried the method described there and could not get it to work.

There is a question and answer on this at StackOverflow, Embed Dropbox website to an HTML website. The short answer is: It can't be done. For the reason why, see the StackOverflow question.

I Googled "embed dropbox video" and found an answer using the

video></video>

HTML5 tag. See How to Use Dropbox to Host and Stream Videos. However I could not get this to work either. The video embedded but would not play. I tried this method using an iframe; it too embedded but would not play.

So, I'm thinking it can't be done. (You could upload the video to YouTube or Vimeo and use the embed code they will generate in an iframe. That should work.)

If anyone finds a workable solution, I would be interested to see it.

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