Create beautiful page interaction with on-hover and autoplay video web part.
Key features:
- Works with any section: flexible section, full-width etc
- Can autoplay on hover (use videos as dynamic buttons!)
- Supports Stream, YouTube, other embeds, and custom uploads
- Supports custom thumbnails
- Mute it, loop it, and resize it
- Customize video-click behavior
On the page where you need the video, add this web part:
Uploading videos (less than 10Mb)
Smaller videos can be uploaded from web part properties as shown below:
Your videos will be automatically placed in Site Assets library in folder called Videos
Uploading large videos (over 10Mb)
If you need to upload a large video, follow these steps:
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Upload your video to a SharePoint document library directly
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Open the video which should open in Stream
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In the top right hand corner, click Share → Embed Code, as shown below
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Click the Copy embed code button as shown below
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Now, go to the Video web part where you placed it, and access web part properties
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Paste the embed code in the Link to video or embed code textbox, as shown below
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Save the page
Playback options
Playback options are in Video Playback web part properties section and include these options:
- Autoplay - plays video as soon as the page is loaded
- Loop - starts playing video again as soon as it’s finished
- Muted - video plays without sound
- Play on a hover - video is paused and plays when the mouse hover over it, paused again when mouse is out. This option is great for creating animated buttons as shown below:
Styling options
You can change the dimensions of the video and how rounded is the video border using these options: