# does wowza support mp4v video?

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/does-wowza-support-mp4v-video/43339>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [July 5, 2014, 4:30pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/does-wowza-support-mp4v-video/43339 "2014-07-05T16:30:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Quan\_Sun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ecae2f/32.png) [@Quan\_Sun](https://community.wowza.com/u/Quan_Sun)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2014, 4:30pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/does-wowza-support-mp4v-video/43339/1 "2014-07-05T16:30:33Z")

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I put a mp4 file in content folder for vod, but no video displayed (audio has no problem, and the audio and video of sample.mp4 have no problem). Here is the video and audio information of the file (by ffmpeg):

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Stream #0:0(und): Video: mpeg4 (Simple Profile) (mp4v / 0x7634706D), yuv420p, 720x480 [SAR 1:1 DAR 3:2], 1444 kb/s, 29.98 fps, 29.98 tbr, 3747 tbn, 29.98 tbc (default)

Metadata:

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Stream #0:1(und): Audio: aac (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 11025 Hz, stereo, fltp, 37 kb/s (default)

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Does wowza not support mp4v format, or I did something wrong? Thanks.

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**Author:** ![sal\_jefferson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sal\_jefferson](https://community.wowza.com/u/sal_jefferson)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2014, 6:57am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/does-wowza-support-mp4v-video/43339/2 "2014-07-05T06:57:06Z")

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Hi there, it looks like you are using video codec, mpeg-2(simple profile) which is not support.

Wowza supports:

H.264

MPEG-4 Part 10

MPEG-4 AVC

ISO/IEC 14496-10

Which are just are different ways of saying H.264.

Salvadore

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**Author:** ![sal\_jefferson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sal\_jefferson](https://community.wowza.com/u/sal_jefferson)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2014, 12:18pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/does-wowza-support-mp4v-video/43339/3 "2014-07-05T12:18:54Z")

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That’s right, Wowza supports the mp4v file container, but it needs to have h.264 video codec.

Salvadore

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**Author:** ![Quan\_Sun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ecae2f/32.png) [@Quan\_Sun](https://community.wowza.com/u/Quan_Sun)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2014, 11:28pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/does-wowza-support-mp4v-video/43339/4 "2014-07-05T23:28:23Z")

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Thanks a lot for your reply, Salvadore. Do you mean mpeg4 (simple profile) is not supported by wowza? or mpeg4 (Simple Profile) (mp4v / 0x7634706D) just means mpeg-2(simple profile)?

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-install-and-configure-wowza-streaming-engine#supportedMedia](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-install-and-configure-wowza-streaming-engine#supportedMedia) says that wowza support mp4v, but I don’t know why it failed in my case. My wowza version is 4.0.3.

Thanks,

philio

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**Author:** ![Quan\_Sun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ecae2f/32.png) [@Quan\_Sun](https://community.wowza.com/u/Quan_Sun)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2014, 9:21am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/does-wowza-support-mp4v-video/43339/5 "2014-07-06T09:21:57Z")

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thanks a lot, I thought mp4v is video codec instead of file container ☹