# Not finding media outside of content directory

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/not-finding-media-outside-of-content-directory/93424>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [June 16, 2021, 3:18am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/not-finding-media-outside-of-content-directory/93424 "2021-06-16T03:18:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Ron\_Benditt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@Ron\_Benditt](https://community.wowza.com/u/Ron_Benditt)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2021, 3:18am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/not-finding-media-outside-of-content-directory/93424/1 "2021-06-16T03:18:33Z")

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I’ve got a live application that runs a playist using the streamPublisher module. My media resides in a different path than the SMIL file. The SMIL file is in the normal place [install-dir]/content but my media is on ~/remotemediadrive/. I’m also using ModuleMediaListPathSelector to attempt to point Wowza to my media but this appears not to be working.

I see errors like this:

`MediaReaderH264.open[live/MyApp]: Not found: /usr/local/WowzaStreamingEngine/content/~/remotemediadrive/sample.mp4.: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /usr/local/WowzaStreamingEngine/content/~/remotemediadrive/sample.mp4 (No such file or directory)|at java.base/java.io.RandomAccessFile.open0(Native Method)|at java.base/java.io.RandomAccessFile.open(Unknown Source)|at java.base/java.io.RandomAccessFile.(Unknown Source)|at java.base/java.io.RandomAccessFile.(Unknown Source)|at com.wowza.io.WowzaRandomAccessFile.(WowzaRandomAccessFile.java:12)|at com.wowza.io.DirectRandomAccessReader.open(DirectRandomAccessReader.java:236)|at com.wowza.wms.mediareader.h264.MediaReaderH264.open(MediaReaderH264.java:262)|at com.wowza.wms.stream.publish.PublishingProviderMediaReader.a(PublishingProviderMediaReader.java:239)|at com.wowza.wms.stream.publish.PublishingProviderMediaReader.(PublishingProviderMediaReader.java:97)|at com.wowza.wms.stream.publish.Stream.a(Stream.java:957)|at com.wowza.wms.stream.publish.Stream.run(Stream.java:278)|at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)|`

I have the ModuleMediaListPathSelector set up with the property:

`pathSelectorPrefixes = /usr/local/WowzaStreamingEngine/content/`

my understanding is that this should remove the unwanted prefix from the path name, leaving just the proper ~/remotemediadrive/sample.mp4 as the file path. But from the error, it looks like it’s got /usr/local/WowzaStreamingEngine/content/~/remotemediadrive/sample.mp4 as the file path, so the path name is not being affected by the ModuleMediaListPathSelector plugin.

The playlist SMIL file is set up like this:

```
<video src="mp4:~/remotemediadrive/sample.mp4" start="0" length="-1"/>

```

I’ve also tried to set up a MediaCache “file” source, but this gave me errors also.

I had the MediaCache source set to:  
BasePath: ~/remotemediadrive/   
Prefix: RemoteMediaDrive/

I then had my SMIL file media set up like this:  
` <video src="mp4:RemoteMediaDrive/sample.mp4" start="0" length="-1"/>`

With this MediaCache approach, I’m seeing errors like this:

`MediaReaderH264.open[1]: java.io.IOException: MediaCacheRandomAccessReader.open: Item not in cache: RemoteMediaDrive/sample.mp4: java.io.IOException: MediaCacheRandomAccessReader.open: Item not in cache: RemoteMediaDrive/sample.mp4|at com.wowza.wms.mediacache.impl.MediaCacheRandomAccessReader.open(MediaCacheRandomAccessReader.java:75)|at com.wowza.wms.mediacache.impl.MediaCacheRandomAccessReaderFilter.open(MediaCacheRandomAccessReaderFilter.java:75)|at com.wowza.wms.plugin.pathselector.RandomAccessReaderMediaListPathSelector.open(RandomAccessReaderMediaListPathSelector.java:89)|at com.wowza.wms.mediareader.h264.MediaReaderH264.open(MediaReaderH264.java:262)|at com.wowza.wms.stream.publish.PublishingProviderMediaReader.a(PublishingProviderMediaReader.java:239)|at com.wowza.wms.stream.publish.PublishingProviderMediaReader.(PublishingProviderMediaReader.java:97)|at com.wowza.wms.stream.publish.Stream.a(Stream.java:957)|at com.wowza.wms.stream.publish.Stream.run(Stream.java:278)|at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)|`

and

`MediaReaderH264.open[live/MyApp]: Not found: /usr/local/WowzaStreamingEngine/content/RemoteMediaDrive/sample.mp4.: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /usr/local/WowzaStreamingEngine/content/RemoteMediaDrive/sample.mp4 (No such file or directory)|at java.base/java.io.RandomAccessFile.open0(Native Method)|at java.base/java.io.RandomAccessFile.open(Unknown Source)|at java.base/java.io.RandomAccessFile.(Unknown Source)|at java.base/java.io.RandomAccessFile.(Unknown Source)|at com.wowza.io.WowzaRandomAccessFile.(WowzaRandomAccessFile.java:12)|at com.wowza.io.DirectRandomAccessReader.open(DirectRandomAccessReader.java:236)|at com.wowza.wms.mediareader.h264.MediaReaderH264.open(MediaReaderH264.java:262)|at com.wowza.wms.stream.publish.PublishingProviderMediaReader.a(PublishingProviderMediaReader.java:239)|at com.wowza.wms.stream.publish.PublishingProviderMediaReader.(PublishingProviderMediaReader.java:97)|at com.wowza.wms.stream.publish.Stream.a(Stream.java:957)|at com.wowza.wms.stream.publish.Stream.run(Stream.java:278)|at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)|`

Between these two methods (MediaListPathSelector and MediaCache), I would think one or both of these should work.

How can I get Wowza to get to my media files in the proper place and which is the preferred method to do this?

Thanks,

Ron

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**Author:** ![Ron\_Benditt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@Ron\_Benditt](https://community.wowza.com/u/Ron_Benditt)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2021, 3:38pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/not-finding-media-outside-of-content-directory/93424/2 "2021-06-16T15:38:48Z")

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Ok, method number three to pull media from another place…

Update the Application.xml file:  
Change this line:  
` <StorageDir>${com.wowza.wms.context.VHostConfigHome}/content</StorageDir>`  
To this:  
` <StorageDir>/root/remotemediadrive</StorageDir>`

Also copied my SMIL file to /root/remotemediadrive/

Now I get this error:

`MediaReaderH264.open[1]: java.io.IOException: MediaCacheRandomAccessReader.open: MediaCache source not found: sample.mp4: java.io.IOException: MediaCacheRandomAccessReader.open: MediaCache source not found: sample.mp4|at com.wowza.wms.mediacache.impl.MediaCacheRandomAccessReaderFilter.open(MediaCacheRandomAccessReaderFilter.java:77)|at com.wowza.wms.mediareader.h264.MediaReaderH264.open(MediaReaderH264.java:262)|at com.wowza.wms.stream.publish.PublishingProviderMediaReader.a(PublishingProviderMediaReader.java:239)|at com.wowza.wms.stream.publish.PublishingProviderMediaReader.(PublishingProviderMediaReader.java:97)|at com.wowza.wms.stream.publish.Stream.a(Stream.java:957)|at com.wowza.wms.stream.publish.Stream.run(Stream.java:278)|at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)|`

To recap, I now have three methods of pulling content from another place that don’t work:

1. Using the MediaListPathSelector module
2. Using a MediaCache file source
3. Changing the `<StorageDir>` tag in Application.xml

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Ron

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**Author:** ![Ron\_Benditt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@Ron\_Benditt](https://community.wowza.com/u/Ron_Benditt)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2021, 11:43pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/not-finding-media-outside-of-content-directory/93424/3 "2021-06-19T23:43:27Z")

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I finally figured it out. It seems that setting the read-access permissions of the media files can be important.