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How do I view the size of each video file and how much of the 500 GB I have remaining?
BrianHallRHMI want to share this blog post from Tony Redmond: https://office365itpros.com/2020/03/30/stream-storage-consumption-driven-teams-meetings-recordings/
He has done some analysis by downloading meeting recordings from Stream with a result of about 8MB per Minute for a Teams meeting recording. With 500GB you can store a little bit more than 1000 hours. In the Stream portal you can not see the size.
What you should know also is, that only the video size of the original video counts against this limit, not the other 5 to 6 video resolutions.
Tomislav Karafilov thanks very much! I shared that blog post with our person who has the Office 365 Admin account here, so they can check the streams drive space usage over time.
If I was on the software dev team for Streams (and I have been writing software for 20+ years) I definitely would have made video file size and "[drive space] used out of [drive space] available" displayed for every video and every user who can upload videos, or record video to Streams through Teams.
I was writing Perl scripts to pick metadata like file sizes out of video and image files a decade ago! Someone forgot the old principle "if the user's account has limitations, let them know through the interface"
So please make this a feature request for Streams for more than just the administrators. At a minimum, show the file size of each video in the "My Videos" page, with total drive space available for the Office 365 subscription at the bottom.
