MS Office 365 Video
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Yeah my 10 second clip finished processing and is playable now too in my test demo tenant in prod. I took the video in the app itself. I'll try picking one from my camera roll like you did originally and see if that has any issues that I can repro myself.
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Doh!
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Okay, got the three second clip working, had to move to Chrome since I have no Flash.
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That 15 second clip that I took is still uploading but at a snail's pace. i wonder why the three second clip took like under ten seconds but after several minutes the fifteen second one is nowhere near halfway yet.
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@scottalanmiller Here is our browser support matrix. Only need flash on certain OS/Browser combinations. For Chrome we use HTML5 and MSE to adaptively stream MPEG-DASH.
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@scottalanmiller Not sure. We are built on top of SharePoint Online. So depending on how well uploads from your location to SPO works will determine how well uploaded videos into O365 Video work.
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15 second clip still moving along. 82%. So far slow but much healthier than the 10 second native video was.
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15 second clip has finished and is now processing (I assume.)
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@scottalanmiller said:
Anyone know the limits, features, how to use it, security, etc.?
While I'm here.. any specific questions? Or want me to just do a quick sales pitch/brain dump/expose our ugly warts?
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Ha ha, go for it.
One question I have is... where does the storage go? I mean, is this going against our standard pool of shared storage on SharePoint? Does it go towards the usage limits on OneDrive? Is it separate?
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If I make a channel and grant permissions on it to "Everyone" can I actually share the videos publicly to the outside world?
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@scottalanmiller said:
Ha ha, go for it.
One question I have is... where does the storage go? I mean, is this going against our standard pool of shared storage on SharePoint? Does it go towards the usage limits on OneDrive? Is it separate?
So O365 Video is built on top of SharePoint Online and Azure Media Services.
The original video file you upload gets stored in hidden site collection for the "channel". So that original file counts against your normal site collection / team site storage. It does NOT go against OneDrive for Business limits.
The transcoded copies we make in AMS are free, you don't pay for their storage.
In fact you get O365 Video for free as part of the E1-4 or A1-4 liscenses. All you have to pay for is the storage of the original file against your tenant quota in SPO.
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@scottalanmiller said:
If I make a channel and grant permissions on it to "Everyone" can I actually share the videos publicly to the outside world?
No we don't support "External sharing" or "anonymous" video yet. We want to eventually do both. External sharing is easier for us to do. I just have to convince our Business/Finance folks that we won't break the bank with allowing people not paying liscenses to upload and stream videos.
O365 Video costs quite a bit for us to run so we are hesitant in the beginning here on opening up too wide. I'm actively working on the cost models with business/finance to make it so we can open up to broader user base.
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Okay the fifteen second clip is now working from having been uploaded from inside of the app and having been processed . Seems to be working now.
Thanks for your help, Marc!
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@Marc Anonymous video would be really cool and lots of folks ask for it. We'd likely have to do it as an add-on with a streaming quota limit. That way we don't pay the full bill if a video goes viral.
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Right, that makes sense. Limiting the usage to internal users is one thing, if it was openly shared then someone to whom I share it could share it on to someone else and so forth, makes sense.
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Basic idea is an internal video portal. Simple to upload videos. We take care of transcoding the video so it plays back on any device no matter what your bandwidth is. We do adaptive streaming so we change the video quality every few seconds based on your current available bandwidth.
Channels is way to organize and set permissions for videos. You have 3 permission levels at the channel "Owners" - Can change things about the channel. "Editors" - can upload and edit and delete videos. "Viewers" - can view videos.
We just released ability to take one of the videos from the portal and embed it outside the portal a few weeks ago. This is super useful. YOu can take these videos put them in SPO pages, on prem SP, or other web page as long as you have single sign on or adfs setup so the user auths to O365.
Emebed videos are viewable by anyone who has SPO liscense... so if you have kiosk or lower sku users, they can view any videos that are embeded. They just don't get access to the video portal itself.
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Yup, I get the intended use and love it. That's something that we have wanted for a long time. Hitting our SPO storage pool is tough, though, as that is so tiny and video uses it up so quickly. Other than that concern, it seems like a perfect idea. We had looked into other tools for this before and had it kind of work but lacking the useful portal is really the key.
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If you want to talk with others using O365 Video or talk with me... feel free to join our public yammer group. I'm fairly active there. Or vote on ideas on our uservoice forum.
Yammer Group about O365 Video: https://www.yammer.com/itpronetwork/#/threads/inGroup?type=in_group&feedId=4956917
Vote on Ideas / See what others want - UserVoice:
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@scottalanmiller said:
Hitting our SPO storage pool is tough, though, as that is so tiny and video uses it up so quickly.
We figured we had to pay for this service some how. Storage seemed like a simple way without making it too limiting. I've always thought that SPO storage was fairly inexpensive is that not really the case, I haven't looked it up recently. I know they just upped the default SPO site storage recently (or will be if it hasn't happened yet), and I'm hoping over the course of time storage really doesn't pose an issue. Ideal case we keep increasing the default we give you.... that's what we are doing with ODB, hoping that happens with SPO too.
