# How to recording and playing back videos as mp4 on Wowza Streaming Cloud

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-recording-and-playing-back-videos-as-mp4-on-wowza-streaming-cloud/43882>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [August 24, 2015, 11:19am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-recording-and-playing-back-videos-as-mp4-on-wowza-streaming-cloud/43882 "2015-08-24T11:19:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 11:19am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-recording-and-playing-back-videos-as-mp4-on-wowza-streaming-cloud/43882/1 "2015-08-24T11:19:10Z")

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Hi there,

We used Wowza last year, set up on our server, and it worked really well.

I could record streams to mp4 and we could play them back.

This year we’re moving to the Cloud version of Wowza, and whilst I can seem to record and play back a live stream using the (Flash) test suite I set up last year, I can’t work out how to record them.

- In the control panel settings I have “record stream” checked

- In my flash app, I connect, then publish using the following code: stream.publish(‘mp4:’ + streamName, ‘record’);

- Whilst I did see one recording in the “Recordings” list, I can’t seem to do any more, and nor could I play it. I could download it, but again, it wouldn’t play anything

- If I swap rtmp:// for http:// and attempt to build a URL to a recorded mp4 file, I just see “Wowza Streaming Engine 4 Monthly Edition 4.1.2.01 build14521” but no video file

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