How to create VOD playlist?

Wowza Streaming Engine
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First of all, hello everyone, as this is my first post.

I’ve got very simple requirement. I want to play a number of files as one stream.

I tried the following method:

with my streamschedule.smil file:

<smil>
	<head>
	</head>
	<body>
		<stream name="test_playlist"></stream>
		<playlist name="my_playlist" playOnStream="test_playlist" repeat="false" scheduled="2013-01-01 16:00:00">
			<video src="mp4:vid_1.mp4" start="0" length="30"/>
			<video src="mp4:vid_2.mp4" start="0" length="40"/>
			<video src="mp4:vid_3.mp4" start="0" length="20"/>
		</playlist>
	</body>
</smil>

I play my stream in the following way using my live app (myApp1):

Server: rtmp://localhost/myApp1

Stream: test_playlist

Everything works fine, apart from the fact that scrubbing is not available when I play the stream of 3 files, and when I want to play the stream again I need to restart the server or use ModuleScheduleClient.

Second approach I tried to achieve the same functionality I used the method described below:

https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-insert-a-pre-roll-or-mid-roll-for-video-on-demand-playback-in-flash-rtmp-client

But I am not sure if I can use the same .smil file as above if yes then my question is how to achieve that?

Secondly I tried to stick midroll, that worked fine, but there is a sentence which is not quite clear to me:

You could play any number of streams whole or in part as one stream

How can I play any number of streams? Can I specify more video clips in “stream:” field?

Thank you for any help in advance.

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The 2nd link is the correct and at present the only way to do vod playlist, and it only works for Flash RTMP clients. There is no smil involved.

Richard