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Insert Stream (SharePoint) Link in PowerPoint
MicrosoftMarc Mroz another functionality in stream classic that is extremely valuable is being able to upload new versions of videos that retain the same URL. This is essential for how we use stream because much of our training content relies on embedded videos. So if the ability to do this goes away, we would have to keep track of every document a video is embedded on and update every single document when one video changes. This is would be so time consuming we would have to find an alternative product because that redundant and tedious effort would have too significant an impact on staff bandwidth. The ability to incorporate MS forms and search the auto-generated transcript is also essential for our employees to search video tutorials and find solutions without having to watch the entire training video.
In all honesty, I don’t understand why Microsoft is sunsetting stream. It just feels like this excellent program that is working extremely well is being replaced by a half-cooked and less valuable program. I don’t understand why Microsoft would replace a product with something worse and less compatible in almost every way. I accept that it is happening, but I am worried this transition is going to make my life miserable and frustrating for several months while I have to replace nearly all the training content I’ve created in addition to my already demanding schedule.
- There are zero benefits to users and lots of downgrades. Being able to manage all my video content in one place was the best feature for me. Videos are the biggest files anybody stores. Why would we not want to be able to manage our video content conveniently?? Managing videos as videos was perfect, now they're just treated like any old dumb file. Major fumble on Microsoft's part.
Marc Mroz yeah but that makes the .pptx file size huge
- Exactly. It also makes each video a stand alone resource so if you use one video in 6 documents, you have to update all 6 documents and upload 6 video files into one drive whenever a video changes. This is absolutely not a reasonable solution. Do better Microsoft.
- Tgrano I want to recommend that you work with a SharePoint administrator or a SharePoint expert on how to manage files in SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams. Your comments would indicate that you do not understand the platform because your comment about having to update a video and a document by replicating it 5 more times is totally not the way the platform works. If you are doing that, then you do not understand it.
If your resources are standalone resources it is because that is how you are choosing to do it. There are better ways. There are web parts that will aggregate videos from wherever they are stored - the same with documents. You can use a SharePoint website to store your files and you can link to it or pull from that library to display a video pretty much anywhere you want to in your environment if you use the right web part or link.
If you want to share more details on your use case, I'm sure folks here can give you some recommendations on a better way to organize your videos and link to them. Same for documents. One of the best practices using SharePoint is that you have one file and you do not make copies of it anywhere. You store it in one place even though you may be accessing that file from multiple locations - and even multiple applications within the M365 environment.
Has there been any progress on this? Now that Stream (Classic) has been blocked... our workflow has been disrupted. Videos created in your org cannot be embedded via link in a PowerPoint - only embedded as a file - which as mentioned here - crashes the presentation when made over Teams.
In Stream Classic we used Insert > Video > Online Videos and provided the URL. Now with Stream (for SharePoint) the URL is not recognized. Now our only option is use a different platform without the organizational security of SharePoint.
This is a year and some months later. Has there been any progress? Can you recommend a workaround?
Thansk Marc Mroz
@Marc Mroz What on Earth is Microsoft doing????
We migrated all of our video resources from Stream Classic as suggested. Now we have no way of inserting videos into Powerpoint, which we were able to do previously.
Why have Microsoft become so poor at ensuring their products work adequately before rolling them out? Businesses are being used as guinea pigs to find all the faults, only to find Microsoft are too busy breaking other application to fix anything.
The functionality Microsoft provide needs to be kept in place when 'improving' applications. Perhaps testing properly BEFORE rolling out?
This is a mess and we are all getting sick and tired of Microsoft shrugging their shoulders and saying 'What the heck, let's just roll it out deal with the bugs some other time.'
Microsoft are a multi billion dollar organisation. Can they not act like one?- Yes! I could embed from Stream before but not now! I thought all these O365 tools were supposed to work seamlessly together??!!
- Good Morning Marc,
Thanks for getting back to me - very happy to hear that the embedded video functionality is planned for Stream/SharePoint as well!
We have tried loading the video into the PowerPoint directly, then sharing it via PowerPoint live but encountered many issues. The video we have uploaded is a fairly big one (around 1 GB; 45 min duration) so maybe that was the reason for the issues we have encountered. The following errors occurred when testing with a direct video upload then sharing via PowerPoint live:
1. Video doesn't play for meeting participants at all. It starts around 3 min after the meeting host has started the video on his end.
2. Video plays but without sound, even though Computer Audio was shared
3. When sharing PowerPoint live, the meeting host is missing the 'Play' button
Unfortunately, we could not predict reliably which issue would occur at which trial. For the time being, we have switched to embedding a YouTube link into the PowerPoint as that is the most reliably working solution as of today (but not the most preferred one, as it allows meeting participants to pause or fast forward the video on their own).
