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Copper Contributor

Jun 29, 2017

Embedding video on SharePoint requires Silverlight

Hi, I've posted a video in a channel in stream and wanted to use this video in a ContentPage on SharePoint. In SharePoint I added media and chose for "From Address" and pasted the embed URL I co...

Shelley21

Copper Contributor

May 08, 2019

Jan Sabbe I was having this same annoying issue for a video I posted on SharePoint just this week (I'm fairly new to the "SharePoint world" so forgive me), asking to install Silverlight repeatedly. I finally figured out when posting it, if I unchecked the options (in the Properties) for downloading and embedding, it no longer requires Silverlight; so you might want to try that if you haven't already... I know it's been a while since you posted this.

Jan Sabbe
Copper Contributor
May 13, 2019
Shelley21Nice, didn't come up with that. I gave up after a while. Thanks for sharing! Good luck in the "SharePoint World".
NataliiaKuksa
Copper Contributor
May 05, 2020
Shelley21many thanks for sharing your solution. Could you please clarify where can I find these two options to untick? I saved a video file to site contents and wanted to shared it via email, but people experience Silverlight installation request which prevent them from viewing a video content. Many thanks in advance!