# How use wowza vod with paella player ?

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/how-use-wowza-vod-with-paella-player/55161>\
**Category:** Wowza Video (Formerly Streaming Cloud)\
**Tags:** vod\
**Created:** [May 12, 2020, 12:31am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-use-wowza-vod-with-paella-player/55161 "2020-05-12T00:31:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lex\_Markham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e274bd/32.png) [@Lex\_Markham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Lex_Markham)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 12:31am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-use-wowza-vod-with-paella-player/55161/1 "2020-05-12T00:31:22Z")

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Hi,

Noob question :

I’ve a bunch of mp4 files on my web site,

how use wowza to live transcode them to hls or other adaptative streaming format and play with my paella player ?

Thx

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**Author:** ![Karel\_Boek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/karel_boek/32/454_2.png) [@Karel\_Boek](https://community.wowza.com/u/Karel_Boek)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 5:37am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-use-wowza-vod-with-paella-player/55161/2 "2020-05-12T05:37:49Z")

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@Lex Markham, do you want VOD playback, or do you want to create a simulated Live stream from one or more MP4 files in a playlist?

Wowza Streaming Engine doesn’t support transcoding of VOD; transcoding only works for Live streams. So if you use a plug-in to play a pre-defined playlist as a Live stream, then you can use the transcoder.

Packaging to HLS, MPEG-DASH, etc. is of course supported for both Live and VOD. But auto-generation of an Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) stream is only supported for Live - as it requires transcoding. For VOD+ABR, you must prepare the MP4 files yourself and generate a SMIL file.

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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:** [May 12, 2020, 12:34am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-use-wowza-vod-with-paella-player/55161/3 "2020-05-12T00:34:09Z")

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I am not familiar with Paella player specifically, but check out this article - [https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-set-up-video-on-demand-streaming](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-set-up-video-on-demand-streaming)