# Play video from ec2 instance

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/play-video-from-ec2-instance/41748>\
**Category:** Hire a Consultant\
**Created:** [December 27, 2013, 10:27pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/play-video-from-ec2-instance/41748 "2013-12-27T22:27:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Carter\_Cochran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c37758/32.png) [@Carter\_Cochran](https://community.wowza.com/u/Carter_Cochran)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2013, 10:27pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/play-video-from-ec2-instance/41748/1 "2013-12-27T22:27:19Z")

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Hi,

I’m having trouble playing my recorded videos from my ec2 instance (linux server). The file live on the linux server in /WowzaMediaServer/content/example.flv - is there a direct link to this file so I can play it on my site?

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**Author:** ![Roman\_Shmelev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Roman\_Shmelev](https://community.wowza.com/u/Roman_Shmelev)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2013, 11:04am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/play-video-from-ec2-instance/41748/2 "2013-12-28T11:04:15Z")

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contact me: rshmelev {at} gmail [dot] com

i guess it will be easy to resolve an issue

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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:** [December 28, 2013, 12:13pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/play-video-from-ec2-instance/41748/3 "2013-12-28T12:13:49Z")

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Normally the link would be rtsp://[wowza-ip or instance name]/vod/example.flv (for RTSP playback) or http://[wowza-ip or instance name]/vod/example.flv/playlist.m3u8 (for iOS) but you may have configured your Wowza server incorrectly. Alternatively, the example.flv may not be compressed (encoded) with a codec supported by Wowza. Wowza only supports h.264; some FLV files are encoded with VP7 or VP8 codecs.

Allow me to check your server and help you to a working solution. Contact me on Skype (ID: karelboek) or by email.

Kind Regards,

Karel Boek

karel.boek@raskenlund.com

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