# Looping an MP4 file
**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/looping-an-mp4-file/54445
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [January 13, 2020, 4:31pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/looping-an-mp4-file/54445 "2020-01-13T16:31:26Z")
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### Author:  [@Gad\_Hayut1](https://community.wowza.com/u/Gad_Hayut1)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2020, 4:31pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/looping-an-mp4-file/54445/1 "2020-01-13T16:31:26Z")
hello all
i’m new to Wowz and i wanna achieve a really “simple” task:
i want to have about 10 .mp4 (or any other container/encoder) streaming in a loop so i can connect locally from 2-3 machines to test these streams.
i can easily connect to a VOD application that i have setup but it will play the file only once.
in LIVE application i wasn’t able to even play these files at all.
any help would be very much appreciated as i’m struggling with this and really don’t know what i’m missing.
thank you!
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### Author:  [@Rose\_Power-Wowza\_Com](https://community.wowza.com/u/Rose_Power-Wowza_Com)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2020, 4:50pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/looping-an-mp4-file/54445/2 "2020-01-13T16:50:17Z")
The timing is interesting as we just posted a tutorial on how to do this just this morning. With that loop until live module, you don’t ever need to connect a live stream, you can just loop an mp4 playlist.
[https://www.wowza.com/blog/loop-a-pre-roll-until-a-live-stream-starts](https://www.wowza.com/blog/loop-a-pre-roll-until-a-live-stream-starts)
You can also do this another way with the Stream Publisher and that playlist will also loop endlessly.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeR35oXkVkc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeR35oXkVkc)
Hope these tutorials help you get it set up. If not, please feel free to submit a [support ticket](https://www.wowza.com/support/open-ticket) and we’ll take a look.