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Uploading and playing videos in SharePoint modern sites
- Upload your videos to the Stream service that supports your file format. You can use the Stream web part in a modern page and embed either the video or the whole channel you associated the video with.
Thanks Alan Marshall , after testing a few things, we are now using Stream, just had to tweak a few settings in Office 365
For anybody else who comes across this thread, save time and use Streams, seems like after doing homework this is the official / supported / best practice way of storing/ embedding videos in SharePoint Modern sites online is using Stream or Office 365 video
JHerschel does this method require video viewers to have microsoft login?
I understand that Streams requires company login. Do I misundertand and this allows a streams video to be embedded in a Sharepoint Public File Site (one that allows anonymous links)?
Steve Schultz I believe so. We have been using Streams for over a year now, but haven't tested with anonymous users or external users. One small quirk is that a few users on Iphone/Ipad using SharePoint app will need to click on a button to open in new window (browser I guess) and then log in. So, we have been telling users to use browsers to view our Intranet site for more stream less experience, but users will need to go into browser settings and disable 'prevent cross site traffic' since videos are at different URL. hope this helps.
I would use O365 Video until they allow guest access to Stream (2020 Q4 per roadmap). Hopefully O3665 Video will stick around until Stream has that capability.
I've also used the Image Viewer webpart to link to and open an mp4 stored in a document library.
Hi,
I saw your post and thought, OK I'll try streams. It might be OK in someplaces, but the video just did not play. I used an YouTube embed instead, via the embed web part since the YouTube webpart refused to work.
I'm running this from, and my users are in, Rwanda, so it's possible that the video is not cached anywhere near Rwanda and the performance might be worse than most people's experience.
But thanks for your suggestion. It did make me look at streams.
Geoff
We are using stream for videos and have few modern SharePoint sites which have the stream app embedded. However the search feature on the modern SharePoint site doesn't return any search results from Stream Videos. Is there any setting that I could change ? Please advise
