# Playback a unfinished recording segment

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/playback-a-unfinished-recording-segment/97196>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Tags:** wowza-streaming-server-java-api\
**Created:** [April 19, 2024, 7:46am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/playback-a-unfinished-recording-segment/97196 "2024-04-19T07:46:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Siavash\_Heydari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3e96dc/32.png) [@Siavash\_Heydari](https://community.wowza.com/u/Siavash_Heydari)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 7:46am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/playback-a-unfinished-recording-segment/97196/1 "2024-04-19T07:46:41Z")

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Hi Community,

I have a question regarding playback functionality. Imagine there is video stream from a source and I am recording it in 10 minutes segments. Segmenting happens every 10 minutes, but now I need to playback / revisit last 9 minutes (means before segment record gets completed) , or in better way is there a way to playback from recording temporary files ?

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**Author:** ![Bernd\_Backhaus1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/bernd_backhaus1/32/1328_2.png) [@Bernd\_Backhaus1](https://community.wowza.com/u/Bernd_Backhaus1)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2024, 6:09pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/playback-a-unfinished-recording-segment/97196/2 "2024-04-25T18:09:33Z")

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Hello,

please open a [support ticket](https://portal.wowza.com/account/support), so we can help in your individual use case. Also include your [conf and log files](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-create-a-compressed-zip-file-in-windows-os-x-and-linux) please.

The solution would depend on your workflow; for example if you transcode the ingest to HLS, you can simply activate nDVR to seek in the running recording.

Regards,  
Bernd Backhaus  
Wowza Support  
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