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Copper Contributor

Dec 04, 2017

Microsoft Stream is no Replacement for Office Mix

I am having problems understanding how Microsoft Stream is a replacement for Office Mix. It takes hours to upload a video to Microsoft Stream that takes about 3 or 4 minutes with Office Mix. Th...

Joshua Mocherman

Copper Contributor

Apr 20, 2018

Agreed! As an educator, I have uploaded daily lessons to Mix from PowerPoint in 20mins or less for a 40 minute lesson. Now with Stream, I am lucky if they upload after 4 hours, if they upload at all. To give Mix the axe before having a suitable replacement is just bad planning.

If uploading a video to Mix and Stream are essentially the same idea, why does Stream take infinitely longer than Mix?

Marc Mroz

Microsoft

Apr 20, 2018

Joshua Mocherman - I'm sorry for the frustration we've caused everyone. Uploading to Mix and Stream are doing 2 different things which is why you see such a long delay. See my post above from 3-2-18 for more details: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Stream-Forum/Microsoft-Stream-is-no-Replacement-for-Office-Mix/m-p/167197/highlight/true#M1628

Daniel Fanous
Copper Contributor
Apr 27, 2018
I think we all understand that. But that doesnt really help all the people trying to upload a 2gig video for every lecture?

Second, if for whatever reason the upload fails, the video render has to start all over again!

You need to realise how this is really making what was a great product into a terrible educational product--not because of the software itself but because of the upload process!