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Rolled out to Worldwide - Generate or upload captions / transcripts to any video in M365
As of last night, we rolled out to 100% of worldwide the ability to generate (in English) or upload (in VTT format in any language) captions and transcripts for any video file in uploaded to OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, or Yammer. For more information see the help document on how to use this new feature in M365... https://support.microsoft.com/office/view-edit-and-manage-video-transcripts-and-captions-3cb9acb6-05b2-4f59-a50d-7df61123aa20 (GCC, GCC-H, and DoD regions will come later, see roadmap items: https://aka.ms/StreamRoadmapDates)
New Stream Webpart - Disappointing
The new Stream Webpart has just come through to our tenant and started to set it up to see how it actually works. Quite disappointing so far, and not fit for purpose in our video architecture. I was hoping for something similar to the Highlighted Content Webpart where you have a lot of sources, filtering and sorting options, etc. Would have liked to see Microsoft use this as a base, and retrofit the ability to play videos inline, additional display options such as Gallery (which they have) and Playlist (which is apparently coming soon). As part of the migration from Stream (Classic) to Stream (on SharePoint) we are looking to upload all our videos to Document Libraries without folders and use metadata for Channels, Categories, etc. This way we can associate our videos to multiple Channels which we wouldn't be able to do with folders. Also, a flat architecture is a much better option for effective filtering, searching, etc. However, the only source options available where we could limit what videos are displayed are using Folder. So, for us, we can't use the new Stream Webpart at all for displaying our videos by Channel, Category, etc. You also can't select multiple sites or sites associated to a hub to return videos from. Only from this site, or a single site. Highlighted Content Webpart allows you to select multiple sites which again is something we need. Stream Webpart Videos on this site (brings back all videos without any filtering options) Folder (no filtering options) Single video Highlighted Content Webpart (a lot of filtering options regardless of what source you select) All sites in the hub This site A document library on this site This site collection The page library on this site (wouldn't apply to videos) Select sites All sites Also, when selecting Folder or Single video and you want to get from another site, it only shows recent or favorited sites (and not all of them) with no ability to search for and select a specific site. This is a real painful experience where you have to go out to the site you want to select first a few times and hope it shows up for you to select. This is also noted in the following post: New Stream Web Part - Source > Folder > From Sites > Only shows recent shared libraries - Microsoft Community Hub The new Stream Webpart also currently has very limited Sorting options available. Stream Webpart Recently created Recently edited Author Highlighted Content Webpart Most recent Most viewed Trending Managed property ascending Managed property descending Looks like we're stuck with File and Media Webpart for single videos, and Highlighted Content Webpart for multiple videos for the foreseeable future. Really hoping to see the new Stream Webpart get some much-needed improvements over the next few months!! Microsoft, any plans for implementing any of these missing features?Audio problems for professional created videos
Hi everyone, i am working for an IT department and received the following incident. I wanted to bring up an issue we've been experiencing with the audio quality of board videos when played on SharePoint. Locally, the videos play perfectly fine, but once uploaded to the SPO, we notice frequent clicking sounds that significantly affect the audio quality. Details: The audio issues seem to occur randomly and are not consistent across all videos. We are following the rules for encoding - Video formats you can play on Microsoft 365 - Microsoft Support MP4 1080p - 5Mbps, Audio AAC 192Kbps - Encoder is Adobe Premiere If you download the file locally there is no clicking - it is only in the Streaming web player Has anyone else experienced similar issues with the web player and .mp4 files? We would appreciate any insights or suggestions on how to resolve this issue. Looking forward to any advice from the community. Best regards StephanDisable Recording
Due to a compliance requirement, we need to disable the Record ability in Stream on SharePoint. We have an approved app we use for recording. Is the option to disable recording on Stream on SharePoint available? If not, I'd like to recommend the record option needs to be available/unavailable per User or Group.
Simple Video Edit features - Cannot trim anymore
We have been using Stream Classic for a while. We did appreciate the feature to trim 10 or 20 seconds from a Teams Video Presentation using Stream Classic. Now when in the Stream for SharePoint pages, the words ' edit ' or ' trim ' are missing. I would be really grateful not to need to open Adobe Premiere just to trim my Microsoft Videos. Alternatively, I could use VLC but I would like to stay in the cloud and not have to download video locally just to clean up a meeting video twice a week. Has anyone found a valid or logical explanation as to why MS would remove a feature that was working fine? When there is not another 'simple' Microsoft Video trim edit tool ? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/portal-edit-trimCaption/transcription generation issues?
The option to generate captions/transcriptions for videos stored in SharePoint/OneDrive has been working fine in our tenant for months, but yesterday users started reporting an error message. When attempting to generate captions, the message indicated that the request could not be completed. By late evening (10 PM EST), the request process was working, but as of 9:30 this morning, no captions have been generated, even for very short videos. There's nothing in the Service Health section of the admin center, so not sure what's going on. EDIT: I just tried requesting captions in another tenant and am getting the same message as yesterday We're having trouble generating a transcript and captions right now. Try again in a bit.
