# Disable seeking for on demand (HLS)

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/disable-seeking-for-on-demand-hls/38878>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [October 17, 2012, 11:36am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/disable-seeking-for-on-demand-hls/38878 "2012-10-17T11:36:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dan\_O](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Dan\_O](https://community.wowza.com/u/Dan_O)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 11:36am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/disable-seeking-for-on-demand-hls/38878/1 "2012-10-17T11:36:30Z")

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Hi,

We need to playback prerecorded MP4 files but give the end user the impression of a live stream (no duration/progress info, and no seek allowed). Usually this is simple, in our HTML5 player there are no controls available. The only problem is on iPhone. iPhohe will always open & play a video in full screen at the same time making the native controls available (ignoring the video tag preferences).

So what we need is a way to fool the iPhone and make it think it’s a live stream.

Is there a way on the server side to alter the media (maybe alter the sent duration info to make the stream look as a live stream?) that’s sent to a HLS player?

I’m aware that’s possible to create a live stream from a VOD file but i’m afraid it may be too heavy as we may have multiple users at the same time (each would req. a ‘live stream’ to be created).

Thanks for any suggestions.