Forum Discussion
Embed SharePoint Video on External Sites
- We don't support anyone public anonymous embed codes for videos. (Not sure if that old workaround works for other file types?) We only support direct anyone links.
Is it because of security that it is not possible to use embed codes public?
MicrosoftMartin_Richter_Olsen - We may add this in the future, but I don't have a timeline or roadmap item.
Supporting public anonymous embed codes has various cost and security implications we'd need to work through if we were to add this feature.
Oh this must be a core feature for Stream!
I mean public embedding is a must have feature that literally every other video platform has. As it is, MS Stream is near useless in many scenarios because the video content cannot be embedded into for example support, training, educational... -content within learning management systems, support sites, training materials, interactive learning content (for example H5P-packages) and countless other situations.
The embedding as it is, has problems even when embedding into Microsoft's other products because the authentication often fails even with SSO. For example embedding a video into companys own intranet page (SharePoint modern) is a hit and miss user experience.
Now every Microsoft customer paying for M365 will have to also pay big bucks for a separate video platform and reserve completely unnecessary resources for downloading copies of videos from Stream, uploading videos into separate platform and adding metadata, subtitles... etc.
It is really frustrating because many organisations are heavily invested into Microsoft ecosystem and videocontent is really important in this day an age. Stream is really good video platform with many clever and helpful tools, but this missing feature is just crippling in so many situations.
Please can you make this message heard in some development forum? It would mean a lot for many many customer organizations. Thank you!I may not be able to address all of your issues, but you mentioned embedding a video on a SharePoint modern site page. You should never need to use the Embed web part in SharePoint at all! Your video should be stored in SharePoint and you should use one of the following web parts to share that video:
- New Stream web part that will select the video from your document library
- File and Media web part that will display a single video inline
- Highlighted Content web part if you are aggregating a group of videos to display on a page
- Hero web part if you like the display options for inline video display where in the past we have only had images
- List web part if you have created a playlist of videos to display
I'm not sure what other Microsoft applications you may be trying to use "embed" code in other than adding a video to a PowerPoint presentation. That has most recently been resolved and if it isn't working in your tenant - it should be very soon. Same with being able to add a video to a Microsoft Form. Someone just showed me that you can now add video to Microsoft Forms again.
When you are embedding a video into another system it needs to be on your network being presented to people in your tenant who have an M365 licensed account. Storing videos for your organization in SharePoint and making them available via the modern Stream app is not intended to be shared with the general public. You cannot share any other SharePoint content with the general public and you never could share videos on Stream Classic with the general public. The embed code works with other systems if you have the permissions set correctly on your video that you are sharing in your environment. There are some challenges for sure if you do not understand SharePoint permissions and if your video was migrated from Stream Classic that you are sharing - where the permissions will have been migrated and there may be conflicting permissions on the video file because of this.
If you want to share more details on where you are storing your video that you wish to embed in another system your users have access to, I'm sure I and others would be more than happy to assist you in getting the permissions resolved so that it works. Where is your video stored? Is it on a team site or a communications site? Are the permissions set on the individual file or have you cleaned up the permissions also for the folder, the library and the site to support who you want to share the file with?Thank you for your reply!
Just as background information - I work for a vocational college with roughly 400+ staff and 10000 students ranging from 16-60 years of age and 20 different vocational branches. We also have many different ways of studying (classroom, online, hybrid, apprenticeship...). We have M365 package for everyone. Intranet is based on Sharepoint, public website on Wordpress, LMS on Moodle. In addition we use many different formats / platforms (for example H5P, ThingLink...) with our study materials, marketing, communication and so on.
Couple of principles we are trying to go by.
* No OneDrive for materials (Video or otherwise) because of the risk of all the links and embeddings dying when the person leaves the organization.
* instead we use Teams / SharePoint sites for storeing materials and then (with proper rights - usually "everyone with a link") share links and/or embed materials from there into other platforms.
The problem is that links work but embedding does not. So there is no logical reason for embedding not working. There is no information security / data protection reason because that would cause also the linking to not work. There seems to be some silly technical limitation in the embedding feature that prevents embedding with "everyone with a link" kind of user right.
Every video platform (and other cloud material platform) has this feature and I'm in disbelief that Stream (and SharePoint in general) seems to be missing this core functionality. I would argue that most M365 customers would welcome this because they do not want to be paying and using several video platforms for different use cases.
Is there a MS Feedback (aka Uservoice) on this or something we can go make this request official? This really needs to be a feature. I looked and didn't find, but before I post one I wanted to check if you were aware.
- We were hoping to use Stream on SharePoint as a source for videos on Intranet & LMS (Not MS based) but we need to be able to embed videos to only people accessing trough the LMS for example. Can be users without a M365 license.
Is there a MS solution for that scenario today?
