PowerApps Play Video From SharePoint | Power Apps Videos

Video control in Power Apps allows users to play video from a file, SharePoint, or any external source.

In this article, I will cover everything you need to know about PowerApps video control, PowerApps play video from SharePoint, and many more things like:

• PowerApps stream video
• How to play Microsoft Stream Video in Power Apps

Power Apps Video Control

Let’s start with the very basics – What is Power Apps Video Control?

A Video control plays a video clip from a file or from YouTube or any external source like SharePoint. It allows you to play videos directly within your app.

You can use this control to improve the user experience by including product demos, instructional videos, or any other video content relevant to your app.

Let’s see some of the properties of video control in Power Apps.

• Media: An identifier for the clip that a video control plays.
• ShowControls: Whether a video player shows, for example, a play button, a volume button, and a pause button.
• AutoStart: Start to play video control automatically when the user navigates to the screen containing that control.
• Loop: whether a video automatically starts to play as soon as it finishes playing.
• Start time: Providing a start time makes the video play after that time. For example, the start time is 3, and the video starts from 3 sec.

How to Add Power Apps Videos

Let’s see how to use video control in Power Apps to play videos.

1. In Power Apps, select the Insert tab->Media-> Video control.

2. Then, you’ll get one sample video like the one below.

3. Now, From the Properties pane, click the dropdown next to Media -> +Add media to upload a video.

4. It will direct you to your local drive. Select the video file and click on Open.

5. The video will take a few seconds to load. Now, Look at the example below. The video is loaded; you can also see the controls of volume, pause and expand.

Adjust the video by dragging and dropping, and then make the changes for the video using the properties.

Power Apps Play Video from SharePoint

Now, I will explain Power Apps play videos from SharePoint with a simple example.

Example: I have a SharePoint document library that consists of marketing research demo videos related to my Power Apps application.

Let’s see how to use the Power Apps video from SharePoint.

1. In the Power Apps screen, select the Gallery control [horizontal/vertical] from the Insert tab.

2. After selecting the gallery control, the Select a data source screen will populate. Connect with the SharePoint list.

3. Adjust the layout according to your requirements. Select one section in the gallery control and insert one Video control into that.

4. Set the Media property of Video control to the formula below:

ThisItem.'Link to item'

5. Now, save and preview the app once. Tap the videos it is playing; for reference, look at the example below.

That’s it; I hope you understand how to play videos in Power Apps from SharePoint.

Play Microsoft Stream Video in Power Apps

We use the Microsoft Stream control to play the microsoft stream videos in Power Apps. The integration of Microsoft Stream to Power Apps is not working now.

Note:

Currently, the new version is stream (on sharepoint), which doesn’t provide when sharing a stream URL, so the stream control in powerapps won’t work.

1. In Power Apps’ new screen, select the Microsoft Stream control from the Insert tab.

2. Open the Microsoft Stream, select the video, click the Share option of the video, and copy the link by clicking on the Copy link.

3. Paste that link in the StreamUrl property of Microsoft Stream Control.

Error: StreamUrl property only allows URLs from the microsoftstream.com domain with videos or channel paths.

In the new Stream version, videos are stored with a SharePoint URL, not with the microsoftstream.com domain. The url won’t work unless it’s using the stream(classic) version url.

OR

4. We can get the stream video link from the Microsoft team channel. Follow the link to get the stream video link. After following those steps, we get the following image.

5. The new stream had an update, which is not supported in Power Apps.
Alternatively, we can achieve it by taking the Button control and pasting that stream video link in the Onselect property using the Launch function.

Launch("https://szg52.sharepoint.com/:v:/s/Marketing806/EY_SSgebbC5Onqfe-UOtVfkBS-sPH6zo8xyRPjvOVMMmBg?e=ddTyNT&nav=eyJyZWZlcnJhbEluZm8iOnsicmVmZXJyYWxBcHAiOiJTdHJlYW1XZWZXcifX0%3D")

6. While clicking the button control, it will take you to the streaming app.

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I hope you found this article useful. I have explained the PowerApps video control and PowerApps video from SharePoint, PowerApps videos, and play Microsoft stream videos in Power Apps.

Unfortunately, playing Microsoft Stream videos in Power Apps is not supported. You can use the alternative that I explained above in case you need it.

Bijay Kumar

After working for more than 18 years in Microsoft technologies like SharePoint, Microsoft 365, and Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI), I thought will share my SharePoint expertise knowledge with the world. Our audiences are from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, etc. For my expertise knowledge and SharePoint tutorials, Microsoft has been awarded a Microsoft SharePoint MVP (12 times). I have also worked in companies like HP, TCS, KPIT, etc.