# how to play a video from wowza streaming engine **URL:** \ **Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\ **Created:** [November 17, 2016, 3:08am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-a-video-from-wowza-streaming-engine/47716 "2016-11-17T03:08:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cagatay\_cagatay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cagatay\_cagatay](https://community.wowza.com/u/cagatay_cagatay)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 3:08am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-a-video-from-wowza-streaming-engine/47716/1 "2016-11-17T03:08:17Z")
Hello, I can not play a video from Wowza. I have some videos as .mp4 extension. How can i play these videos onto a html web site. I created some stream files and SMIL files. But i can not have URL to run these videos. I need to URL format to play videos from Wowza Server. How can i get the Url to play videos? Can you help me for this issue. especially can you tell me step by step? Regards. ---
**Author:** ![Alex\_C](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Alex\_C](https://community.wowza.com/u/Alex_C)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2016, 12:26am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-a-video-from-wowza-streaming-engine/47716/2 "2016-11-19T00:26:16Z")
There is a video tutorial on how to play videos from a VOD application: [https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-play-your-first-video-on-demand-stream-video-tutorial](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-play-your-first-video-on-demand-stream-video-tutorial) As far as playing the video on a website. Typically you would need to have a player like JW player or bitmovin. Once you have that enter the HLS URL in to the player to test playback. It usually would look something like this: http://[wowza\_ip]:1935/vod/mp4:sample.mp4/playlist.m3u8 You can check out a demo JW player here: [http://demo.jwplayer.com/developer-tools/http-stream-tester/](http://demo.jwplayer.com/developer-tools/http-stream-tester/) Hope this helps Alex