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)

Dean_Gross

Silver Contributor

Mar 19, 2018

Stream is the recommended software for watching/sharing videos. It provides much more functionality than SharePoint.

A better approach would be to create an Office Group and use it contain the accounts for the people that need to view the videos in a Stream channel and the docs in a SPO doc library. You can add the Stream web part to the SPO site to provide an integrated experience

jcgonzalezmartin

MVP

Mar 19, 2018

Agree with Dean here...SPO can store videos, but the visualization experience is not optimized and that's why it's recommended to use stream instead

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