# Can wowza streaming engine host mp4 files? **URL:** \ **Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\ **Created:** [August 7, 2020, 3:22pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/can-wowza-streaming-engine-host-mp4-files/55686 "2020-08-07T15:22:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jose\_Flores1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9f8e36/32.png) [@Jose\_Flores1](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jose_Flores1)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 3:22pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/can-wowza-streaming-engine-host-mp4-files/55686/1 "2020-08-07T15:22:58Z")
Is it possible for wowza streaming engine to host mp4 files so that we can use the html 5 tag? ---
**Author:** ![video\_streaming](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/22d042/32.png) [@video\_streaming](https://community.wowza.com/u/video_streaming)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 3:57pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/can-wowza-streaming-engine-host-mp4-files/55686/2 "2020-08-07T15:57:02Z")
Yes and just so you know, if use the search bar on the [wowza.com](http://wowza.com) site and enter “vod/ mp4 and HTML5 player”, or here in the forums do the same thing, it will lead you to this doc: [https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-play-video-using-the-html5-video-tag](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-play-video-using-the-html5-video-tag) There’s a section on mp4 and HTML5. You can host your mp4s in your Engine server and Engine creates a [playback url for the VOD](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-set-up-video-on-demand-streaming). If you run out of storage in Engine- say you have thousands of mp4 files, you can host your mp4 assets in Cloud platforms like Google, AWS. Azure and when a viewer wants to connect and play an mp4, Engine will create a playback url that pulls the mp4 asset from your Cloud storage. You do that through MediaCache. [https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-scale-video-on-demand-streaming-with-media-cache](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-scale-video-on-demand-streaming-with-media-cache) Hope that gets you started. 🙂