# Multibitrate VOD app with JW player - can't get running on mobile

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/multibitrate-vod-app-with-jw-player-cant-get-running-on-mobile/46187>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [November 16, 2015, 12:42pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/multibitrate-vod-app-with-jw-player-cant-get-running-on-mobile/46187 "2015-11-16T12:42:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ben\_Myers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/53a042/32.png) [@Ben\_Myers](https://community.wowza.com/u/Ben_Myers)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2015, 12:42pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/multibitrate-vod-app-with-jw-player-cant-get-running-on-mobile/46187/1 "2015-11-16T12:42:41Z")

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Hi all -

I haven’t done a lot of media streaming work and I’m trying to close out some details of a VOD project that basically streams video to a website and have run into an issue with enabling the correct stream to go to the correct consumer (ex: android browser, chrome desktop browser, iOS, etc). I’ve cycled through tons of forums, instructions, tutorials, and documentation and haven’t found a consistent way to do this…

Here’s what I have set up:

On Wowza:

I have a VOD application set up

- content directory: ${com.wowza.wms.context.VHostConfigHome}/content/Weekends

- playback types: MPEG-DASH, Apple HLS, Adobe RTMP, Adobe HDS, RTSP/RTP all enabled

- SMIL file: sopweekendsmil.smil (contents below)

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**Author:** ![Paul\_Shields](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/paul_shields/32/390_2.png) [@Paul\_Shields](https://community.wowza.com/u/Paul_Shields)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 3:22pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/multibitrate-vod-app-with-jw-player-cant-get-running-on-mobile/46187/2 "2015-11-20T15:22:19Z")

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Hi,

The jwplayer.smil suffix indicates to JWPlayer that this is a dynamic RTMP ABR stream. So this is basically for being able to play ABR streams in a Flash player, e.g. on Windows browsers. The playlist.m3u78 suffix will only work on compatible browsers/OS’s such as OS X + Safari, or mobile (Android/iOS) browsers.

The manifest.f4m suffix is for HDS streams which JWPlayer does not support, and manifest.mpd is for MPEG-DASH streams, which is available for more recent JWPlayer releases/licenses.

More details regarding how jwplayer.smil is interpreted can be [found here](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-jw-player-with-adaptive-bitrate-streaming-from-wowza-streaming-engine).

We do provide the following [example scripts](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-jw-player-with-wowza-streaming-engine#rtmp_hls_abr_example) for JWPlayer which allows you to provide an HLS (playlist.m3u8) or RTMP (jwplayer.smil) ABR stream within the same player so should be compatible for the vast majority of browsers/OS’s.