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Embedding Stream videos outside Office environment
MicrosoftThat being said you can embed a video today using the embed.aspx URL. It will only work if you construct the URL or grab it with an API, and it doesn't automatically login or offer a sign in button if the user doesn't already have floating auth/cookies from M365 in the browser.
But here is a way to construct the embed.aspx URL using a custom doc library view formatting:
https://github.com/pnp/List-Formatting/tree/master/view-samples/get-video-file-embed-code
Or this API:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/driveitem-preview?view=graph-rest-1.0
- quick question: why did Microsoft create this "new" version of Stream that is exponentially less intuitive, less useful, and doesn't have any of the features of stream classic? Almost daily tasks I used to complete in Classic Stream are now either impossible because the features I used all the time are gone, or it takes me three times longer to complete. New Stream is awful. Absolutely terrible. And now it won't allow me to even go back to Classic to complete my work. It forces me into Stream on SharePoint. Ugh.
katyg9551 although I may not be Marc Mroz, I did a presentation on this topic back in December. I would be interested in what daily tasks you are doing that have become difficult. It DOES take a new mindset on how to manage files to get comfortable with this, but once you are able to make the paradigm shift in thinking, you find that it really is the same or better - and it keeps getting better all the time. I know I was just preparing a demo to use tomorrow on using the new Stream and I had a lot of fun with the new recording features that are available that we did not have previously in the classic version.
I did a talk on how to create a Stream portal on SharePoint, but session hasn't been posted yet or I would point you in that direction. In the meantime. . . maybe there is something I can help you with that would make things smoother for you? Once you understand how things work in SharePoint, I think it will not seem so difficult and you will start to find improvements over classic Stream.
