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Modern document library web part and file opening
Within my SharePoint Online team site I have a modern page with the document library web part. This web part shows a listing of all them items from one of my document libraries. The document library has an mp4 video in it. Within the document library web part, when I click on the video it is downloaded to my machine to open it. Though if I go directly to the document library and click on the same video it is opened in my browser (both IE and Chrome) and plays just fine. Any idea how to get the modern document library web part to play the video in the browser instead of downloading it?
I realize the work around is to go directly to the document library and play the video but this isn't the ideal user experience.
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Please refer to previous community thread which discusses the same exact issue.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365/Sharepoint-online-displaying-videos/td-p/173107
Thanks for the reply but my issue isn't the same as the referenced post.
- The document library in it's current preview state is basically broken. Try using the Highlighted content webpart and filter down to the video's you need to show. Otherwise you have to link into the document library until they release the updated document library webpart they said they were going to update to be more like the full library experience in the next 3-6 months out.
