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Can I get Stream videos returned in my SharePoint search?
Sorry if this has been covered already, but I couldn't find any recent updates. We're only just starting to test Stream. I'm looking for how we the videos are surfaced in our enterprise searc...
It seems that Microsoft is really pushing customers to start keeping videos right in SharePoint. Previously videos in a document library didn't stream so you had to put them into Microsoft Video and later Stream. This created search and navigation confusion for our end users. Now that SharePoint and OneDrive support video streaming, the easiest thing to do may be to just add them to a SharePoint document library. The benefit to the users is that now you can have all your content (i.e., documents, pdfs, videos) all in one place with shared property tags.
Originally, that was the goal for SharePoint I thought. Have everything within the SharePoint site. But later, they decided to pull all that out of SharePoint itself and allow applications to specialize leaving SharePoint for bridging all the applications together and improving SharePoint's overall performance.
If they have changed their mind, and want to once again start having SharePoint be the main repository for videos, so be it... but now, I will be wanting the same functionality that only Stream provides within videos hosted in a SharePoint site:
- automatically creating transcripts that are searchable
- WebPart to display all videos with the same category
- converting the videos into multiple formats for optimal video streaming across any device.
Personally, I hope they choose to keep Stream as the primary video solution, just allow the content to be searchable within SharePoint. That seems a lot easier than adding all the video streaming functionality back into SharePoint.
If they have changed their mind, and want to once again start having SharePoint be the main repository for videos, so be it... but now, I will be wanting the same functionality that only Stream provides within videos hosted in a SharePoint site:
- automatically creating transcripts that are searchable
- WebPart to display all videos with the same category
- converting the videos into multiple formats for optimal video streaming across any device.
Personally, I hope they choose to keep Stream as the primary video solution, just allow the content to be searchable within SharePoint. That seems a lot easier than adding all the video streaming functionality back into SharePoint.