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Download original video as an mp4
Hi! I created some videos in my stream and need to download them as either a .mp4, .mov, or .avi type of file. Right now it's only downloading as a .webm file. How do I fix this?
Thanks for the note and I wanted to give some more details. The screen recorder on classic Stream and the new enhanced screen record on stream.office.com are using the browser to generate a video file. Currently the browser support creating .webm files so that is what is outputted when you all use the recorder.
There are currently no plans to change the file format as it plays back in classic Stream and on Stream on SharePoint.
I do wonder why folks are needing another file format. Hearing below about wanting to embed a video into Sway seemed like one use case, were there others?
Most of our intent with the screen recorder is record (do an explainer video for example), make some small edits, hit upload and then share to others. Others can watch the video right in Stream. All of this works just fine with webm so I was trying to see why people were asking about mp4. Thanks!!
There are currently no plans to change the file format as it plays back in classic Stream and on Stream on SharePoint.
I do wonder why folks are needing another file format. Hearing below about wanting to embed a video into Sway seemed like one use case, were there others?
Most of our intent with the screen recorder is record (do an explainer video for example), make some small edits, hit upload and then share to others. Others can watch the video right in Stream. All of this works just fine with webm so I was trying to see why people were asking about mp4. Thanks!!
I was trying to bring a video I downloaded from Stream into Clipchamp. However, Clipchamp doesn't recognise webm format.
Rj__M if you go back in and edit the video while it is still in Microsoft stream and remove, say, the last 1 or 2 seconds of the video and then save and then download, it will download in MP4 format.
Another words, you only have to make one small change and then save it and it will save in a usable format.
Give it a try and then let me know how you go.
Cheers,
Tony
- I found I had to be in Stream Classic, but that worked perfectly, thank you.
