I have video file on file server, they are very large. I cannot upload those videos in SharePoint Library. Is it possible to embed videos on file server in SharePoint Media Web Part? If yes how can I do it?

Hi,

What is the size of video file ?

Please go through below link on how to increase the maximum upload size in SharePoint using central admin.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/sammykailini/archive/2013/11/06/how-to-increase-the-maximum-upload-size-in-sharepoint-2013.aspx

Hope that's helps you.

Regards

Soni K

That particular web part takes a number of formats and then displays them using Silverlight.  I can't recall if it modifies the actual file or clones iot and then modifies that.  The advantge to this is a lower footprint for SharePoint to deal with. (Accepted formats for the web part are here).

What formats and file size are you working with too?  You might have a few more options, such as: -

1. Re-encoding to a different format
2. Using a Content Editor Web Part and some HTML

at the moment we do not have very large video , about 700, 800 MB. Now we can upload them it sharepoint.  But in the future we will have really many large videos. I know the maximum upload size can be increased. But just until 2GB. And it is also not suggested to increase the upload limit to 2 GB because of performance problem.

I will try Content Editor Web Part and HTML. Do you know are there finish code for it? Thanks.

I have just tried to upload small video to SharePoint. I find if I upload the video in library and put the media web part in the same site, it works. But if I upload the video in library on other web application, it does not work. I get error from web part "Media failed to load". My idea is I want to use separate web application to save large video files. And I will increase the upload the upload limit to maximum (2GB). If we have larger video in the future we can try blob to transfer video from database to hard disk. But it seems I cannot in media web part connect to video on another web application. Have someone idea for it?

I can always not connect media web part to video, that is saved on another web application. On same site it works always. Can someone help me?