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Cannot reliably search Videos in Stream Search.
MicrosoftThanks everyone for their patience and hanging with us on Stream.
Here is an update on where we are at right now with respect to search.
We've been making iterative small fixes to the existing search capabilities in Stream over the last many months. As you noted above we now do a slightly better job on finding things by title and full word searches. We believe these fixes are helping improve the search experience from what we've been able to test and see in our own use of it.
In parallel to that we have a team of folks investigating how we do a big leap forward on the search experience and results. They are investigating how we can hook Stream into another search index/system that powers enterprise search on a bunch of apps in O365 (SP, bing for work, outlook, etc). This is a fairly big project across teams, and as such as been slow going. But we are still working on it and have developers actively investigating, doing proof of concepts, and narrowing down to a solution we can build out.
ArchanaN is the PM on our team who owns the search area for Stream and can answer further questions going forward.
- Marc MrozSorry for a late reply. As many of you may know we've stopped active development on Stream (classic) and are putting all our effort into making changes for Stream (on SharePoint) which is another way of saying "put your videos into SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and Yammer". The current search on Stream (classic) is fairly poor for all the reason in the thread above.
However, if you start putting your videos into SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and Yammer those videos will get full real M365 search capabilities. So you can find your videos from any search box in M365.
For Teams meeting recordings where you've enabled Live Transcripts, those transcripts are now searchable to find your meeting recordings in M365 today.
Around April we'll start rolling out the ability to generate a transcript in English for any video uploaded to ODB or SPO. When you do that for a video, that video will also be able to be searched by the words in the transcript.
So we didn't deliver better search on top of Stream (classic) but it's already possible for Stream (on SharePoint), which is uploading your videos to ODB, SPO, Teams, Yammer, etc. - Hello,
It has been over 4 years since this basic search limitation has been shared and yet no capability has been deployed.
Is this functionality on the roadmap for the platform?
Thanks - Hello. I few more months and still not fixed.
I found out that you can search if you are in the group that has the video. I work with videos for school and one of my colleagues upload files too. I can see his files if I am in the same group that he posted the video. But older videos that I am not part of the group, I cannot search. - Actually my bad, 3 years.
Is this product EOL and no updates are being made?
