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)

Thomas Capacci

Brass Contributor

Mar 19, 2018

Thanks Dean, can you grant access to Stream to external users?

Alan Marshall

Steel Contributor

Mar 19, 2018

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.

Thomas Capacci
Brass Contributor
Mar 20, 2018
Ok thanks for the heads up!

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