Forum Discussion
Sharepoint online - displaying videos
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)
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
Thanks Dean, can you grant access to Stream to external users?
- External users cannot be added to Stream for viewing or uploading but this is a highly voted feature on user voice. Even if the Stream is attached to an O365 group that includes external users it still doesn't let them use it.
- Ok thanks for the heads up!
