# How to play back videos as mp4 on Wowza Streaming Cloud after live streaming end?

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-back-videos-as-mp4-on-wowza-streaming-cloud-after-live-streaming-end/54206>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [November 19, 2019, 3:11pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-back-videos-as-mp4-on-wowza-streaming-cloud-after-live-streaming-end/54206 "2019-11-19T15:11:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![prashant\_jha1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71e660/32.png) [@prashant\_jha1](https://community.wowza.com/u/prashant_jha1)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 3:11pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-back-videos-as-mp4-on-wowza-streaming-cloud-after-live-streaming-end/54206/1 "2019-11-19T15:11:04Z")

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Hi there,

I want to know how to playback stream after streaming end before go for a paid subscription.

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**Author:** ![Amara\_Graham](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/amara_graham/32/381_2.png) [@Amara\_Graham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Amara_Graham)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 3:18pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-back-videos-as-mp4-on-wowza-streaming-cloud-after-live-streaming-end/54206/2 "2019-11-19T15:18:23Z")

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Hi Prashant,

You can record with Wowza Streaming Cloud, but you will need to host the mp4 somewhere like Wowza Streaming Engine for playback after the stream.

Here is more information about recording streams - [https://www.wowza.com/docs/record-live-streams-and-transcoders-in-wowza-streaming-cloud](https://www.wowza.com/docs/record-live-streams-and-transcoders-in-wowza-streaming-cloud)

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**Author:** ![Rose\_Power-Wowza\_Com](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/rose_power-wowza_com/32/431_2.png) [@Rose\_Power-Wowza\_Com](https://community.wowza.com/u/Rose_Power-Wowza_Com)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 5:17pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-back-videos-as-mp4-on-wowza-streaming-cloud-after-live-streaming-end/54206/3 "2019-11-19T17:17:30Z")

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In addition to what Amara has shared [@prashant jha](http://community.wowza.com/community/questions/53661/how-to-play-back-videos-as-mp4-on-wowza-streaming.html#) on how to record and store them, please know you can scale the playback of your stored mp4s even if you stored them In Google Cloud, AWS or some other third party storage. You can “pull the stored mp4s” and distribute them for playback using Wowza’s 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)

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**Author:** ![prashant\_jha1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71e660/32.png) [@prashant\_jha1](https://community.wowza.com/u/prashant_jha1)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2019, 11:22am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-back-videos-as-mp4-on-wowza-streaming-cloud-after-live-streaming-end/54206/4 "2019-11-21T11:22:55Z")

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Hi @Amara Graham,

Could you please let know the steps to how to host mp4 somewhere?

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**Author:** ![Rose\_Power-Wowza\_Com](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/rose_power-wowza_com/32/431_2.png) [@Rose\_Power-Wowza\_Com](https://community.wowza.com/u/Rose_Power-Wowza_Com)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-back-videos-as-mp4-on-wowza-streaming-cloud-after-live-streaming-end/54206/5 "2019-11-22T17:11:54Z")

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That is outside out scope of support for Streaming Cloud and is what you choose and configure on your own.

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**Author:** ![Rose\_Power-Wowza\_Com](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/rose_power-wowza_com/32/431_2.png) [@Rose\_Power-Wowza\_Com](https://community.wowza.com/u/Rose_Power-Wowza_Com)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2019, 5:23pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-back-videos-as-mp4-on-wowza-streaming-cloud-after-live-streaming-end/54206/6 "2019-11-22T17:23:40Z")

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Per forum guidelines, please do not double post on the same question. We want the community to find the correct answer in one post and not have to read through several. Thank you @prashant jha.