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Stream to share a video and make it available to anonymous users
Hi,
Is there a facility in Stream to share a video and make it available to anonymous users so that it can be embedded in different websites.
Thanks
Gustavo Moura de Sousa and everyone else. Thank you for your passion around this missing functionality. We still have external access (anonymous access, guest access, and federated access) as very high priorities, and once again have engineers actively working on these. We have obviously hit numerous starts and stops on our path to delivering anonymous access, not for lack of awareness or lack of desire to get this done, but due to other functionality that unexpectedly became a higher priority for regulatory and business reasons (e.g., GDPR, GOV cloud access, etc.). If you can use workarounds for now, thank for you doing so and your continued patience. If not, we understand, and hope you'll be willing to try Stream again once we have the functionality you need.
Please note that we are not actively monitoring the suggestions at https://stream.uservoice.com/, as that site is managed by an unknown third party, not Microsoft. To submit your feedback on anonymous playback and other features you need in Stream, please use https://aka.ms/streamideas. In particular, to add your support for anonymous public playback of Stream content, please upvote this idea: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-stream-ideas/public-videos/idi-p/80159.
-Chris
Could you please give us an update on the timeline for this added functionality? We moved our videos to Stream and need to share them via our external website (as well as internally), LinkedIn, YouTube, etc.
Your response would be greatly appreciated as my ELT and Marketing SVP are waiting for an answer from me.
Cheers,
Laurie
Marc Mroz
Microsoft
MicrosoftThe public external anonymous videos in Stream project got delayed as we we've been heads down working on live events and O365 Video to Stream migration over the last many months. Sorry about any of my optimistic (incorrect) timelines above.
We've recently significantly increased the size of our team, so I'm hoping we'll be able to start making quicker progress on more projects in parallel.
Public anonymous is still high on our backlog but we've also uncovered some deeper architectural changes that might be necessary before we can enable a video to be watched from Stream by anyone in the world without a login. I'd say over the course of the next couple of months we'll have a better picture on what the timeline will be for this feature. Sorry I can't give any specific timelines other than an update on where we are at with it.
As lead on video communications at my company, the inability to share anonymously or publicly renders this tool useless for us. We have thousands of users in the field watching videos on their phone. Imagine if you could only use Skype to call people on your network.... not off.
Marc Mroz Any progress or updates yet on making videos on Microsoft Stream available to anyone on the internet? This is much needed and will make MS Stream far more usable to companies.
- If it's not possible to allow public access, Live Events could allow us to do an RTMP push to other platform (like Youtube)
- Guys, I've created some feature requests on Uservoice that are related to public access on Stream Live Events. If you can take a look and vote it will help me
https://stream.uservoice.com/forums/133762-general/suggestions/39694735-allow-live-events-to-rtmp-push-the-video-to-youtu
https://stream.uservoice.com/forums/133762-general/suggestions/39694627-reduce-the-size-of-the-live-events-ingest-url-81
https://stream.uservoice.com/forums/133762-general/suggestions/39694510-fixed-url-for-live-streams-input
Jason Lindsell this is good but how will this impact sharing to everyone in the Tenet and just NOT being displayed/discoverable .. "unlisted" in stream home content search ...
Business case: selling Teams and did an intro on the solution with prospect today. Recorded it b/c one of their VP's had to miss the meeting and they wanted him to be able to see it. No Problem I said... now have to fall on my sword as I have no way to let him see the video. Too large to download and send, Too proprietary to download and then upload to a public forum like YouTube. Disappointing.
Tim_Rich_MicrosoftHi Gary - sorry to hear that you're having issues with sharing the meeting recording. As a workaround for sending the large file, have you tried hosting the downloadable MP4 on SharePoint and sending a link? I know it's not ideal, but hopefully that will work while you're waiting for the anonymous sharing feature.
How does your update relate to this announcement: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/business-applications-release-notes/october18/dynamics365-marketing/marketing/video-content-using-stream ?
I don't think the announcement will make a lot of sense if you can't share Stream video's anonymously.- Marc Mroz
You are correct, they are tied together. We'd need to build out the public anonymous video ability in Stream for that feature to be possible in Dynamics. Both are delayed at this point since the Stream side of the equation is delayed.
What service policies will be added on anonymous to access Stream, which would be such as limits of guest access, maximum number of connections in concurrent streams,...etc.
Thank you
