One of things coming in the stream is links a specific time on a video to help you send people to a certain point in the video. Now that won't work for chapters just yet, but Microst confirmed it is on their road map to get links directly for each chapter.
Just noticed the new video options after uploading an mp4 to Teams yesterday. Changed the thumbnail, added chapters (I was able to scrub the video to get the timestamp) all pretty intuitive and easy to do. Great episode! You guys are always fun (and informative) to watch.
I’ve reached the same conclusion on Stream, but for me the show stopper is that new stream video can’t be embedded in a Sharepoint page. Presumably this won’t be far away, but it’s certainly a “watch this space” for now. On an unrelated topic…OneDrive = M365 Document Management Tool…end of. It’s time to stop talking about it in terms of personal documents. It’s where you can access and manage all your documents in M365. If we want to talk about personal docs let’s refer to the My Files area. Makes it clearer what it’s all about.
You can simply add the video to a page using the "File viewer" web part for the same effect. Also, if you add the video as the target for a tile in a hero web part, it'll play inline (well, that update is still on the way out).
You can embed videos in a page using the File Viewer web part. That's the intended replacement for the former Stream web part. Hadn't thought about the concept of "My files", which has merit. The problem is the OneDrive name in the suite bar. "My files" is still OneDrive from the UX side of things (not to mention the "Shared with me" and other options, so they all roll up to "OneDrive" in the browser. Unless they replaced that OneDrive title with "My files", I don't think we'll ever get a clear "OneDrive is the way to access all your files no matter where they are" simplification. Not that I don't want it, it's just not feasible currently IMO.
@@jumpto365 don't get me wrong, I don't think we'll get that direction from Microsoft per se, but if I'm explaining what OneDrive is to end users then I would describe it as "an M365 Document Management Tool...something you can use to access all your documents, regardless of whether they're stored in Teams/Groups/Sharepoint Comms sites/My Files". Same could be said for Teams, but of course Teams is so much more than a document management tool.
If the video is playing or the playhead is paused a certain point in the video, when you click "New Chapter" it automatically puts that timecode into the chapter box. You can change it, of course, but this is a very easy way to create a set of chapters for the video.
As a blind person. Your attitude towards accessibility is very refreshing and great to see it being called out in a non-accessibility focused UA-cam channel. Thank you!
The one feature that a BUNCH of our users are waiting for in Stream is variable playback speed. They won't even consider putting their files in SharePoint until that's there.
@@Worrelpa hrm....not seeing that yet in our prod or dev tenants. In the dev tenant, I do see a "open in browser" icon, which opens a video in the "new" Stream web app (which won't be confusing to people at all 🤨)
One of things coming in the stream is links a specific time on a video to help you send people to a certain point in the video. Now that won't work for chapters just yet, but Microst confirmed it is on their road map to get links directly for each chapter.
Just noticed the new video options after uploading an mp4 to Teams yesterday. Changed the thumbnail, added chapters (I was able to scrub the video to get the timestamp) all pretty intuitive and easy to do. Great episode! You guys are always fun (and informative) to watch.
I’ve reached the same conclusion on Stream, but for me the show stopper is that new stream video can’t be embedded in a Sharepoint page. Presumably this won’t be far away, but it’s certainly a “watch this space” for now.
On an unrelated topic…OneDrive = M365 Document Management Tool…end of. It’s time to stop talking about it in terms of personal documents. It’s where you can access and manage all your documents in M365. If we want to talk about personal docs let’s refer to the My Files area. Makes it clearer what it’s all about.
You can simply add the video to a page using the "File viewer" web part for the same effect. Also, if you add the video as the target for a tile in a hero web part, it'll play inline (well, that update is still on the way out).
@@cvkealey learn something new every day! Thanks for the tip!
You can embed videos in a page using the File Viewer web part. That's the intended replacement for the former Stream web part.
Hadn't thought about the concept of "My files", which has merit. The problem is the OneDrive name in the suite bar. "My files" is still OneDrive from the UX side of things (not to mention the "Shared with me" and other options, so they all roll up to "OneDrive" in the browser. Unless they replaced that OneDrive title with "My files", I don't think we'll ever get a clear "OneDrive is the way to access all your files no matter where they are" simplification. Not that I don't want it, it's just not feasible currently IMO.
I saw a tweet this morning about that and Microsoft are working on it. Release around October, but that's a tough estimate.
@@jumpto365 don't get me wrong, I don't think we'll get that direction from Microsoft per se, but if I'm explaining what OneDrive is to end users then I would describe it as "an M365 Document Management Tool...something you can use to access all your documents, regardless of whether they're stored in Teams/Groups/Sharepoint Comms sites/My Files". Same could be said for Teams, but of course Teams is so much more than a document management tool.
If the video is playing or the playhead is paused a certain point in the video, when you click "New Chapter" it automatically puts that timecode into the chapter box. You can change it, of course, but this is a very easy way to create a set of chapters for the video.
As a blind person. Your attitude towards accessibility is very refreshing and great to see it being called out in a non-accessibility focused UA-cam channel. Thank you!
Funny how reviewing this 2 months later, the podcasts from Microsoft now have active and archieved tags. Well done Matt & Sean. :)
The one feature that a BUNCH of our users are waiting for in Stream is variable playback speed. They won't even consider putting their files in SharePoint until that's there.
Interesting that this is so important to them!
@@jumpto365 academics...amirite? 🙄
Well I see it on our current player. Look for the 1x control bottom right.
May just be a rollout timing thing.
@@Worrelpa hrm....not seeing that yet in our prod or dev tenants. In the dev tenant, I do see a "open in browser" icon, which opens a video in the "new" Stream web app (which won't be confusing to people at all 🤨)
@@jumpto365 any idea if they will allow you to push/send a video file from SharePoint file storage over to Stream more seamlessly?