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Thomas Capacci
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Mar 19, 2018
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Sharepoint online - displaying videos

I have setup a SharePoint Team Site for a colleague and enabled external sharing.   He is working with an external consultant who is authenticating with a Windows account (no O365 license). The...
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    paulpascha
    Mar 19, 2018

    In what type of library are the videos being stored? When stored in an "Asset library" (instead of a normal Document Library) accessing the videos from there, they'll open in an HTML5-based video player.

     

    https://support.office.com/en-us/article/set-up-an-asset-library-to-store-image-audio-or-video-files-96532bf6-dc72-4f82-bf0a-21ef945c4d04

     

    Alternatively you can create pages anywhere in your SharePoint site and embed video's there using a Media WebPart (classic pages) or Embed or Video Web Part (modern site pages)

     

     

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paulpascha
Bronze Contributor
Mar 19, 2018

In what type of library are the videos being stored? When stored in an "Asset library" (instead of a normal Document Library) accessing the videos from there, they'll open in an HTML5-based video player.

 

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/set-up-an-asset-library-to-store-image-audio-or-video-files-96532bf6-dc72-4f82-bf0a-21ef945c4d04

 

Alternatively you can create pages anywhere in your SharePoint site and embed video's there using a Media WebPart (classic pages) or Embed or Video Web Part (modern site pages)

 

 

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robbo_lk
Copper Contributor
May 15, 2020

paulpaschaHi Paul,

 

Is it possible to play the video with HTML5-based video player without opening a seperate explorer window, ideally embedded on the page?

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