# Playback recordings from earlier stores (versions)

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/playback-recordings-from-earlier-stores-versions/42826>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [January 4, 2015, 5:44pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/playback-recordings-from-earlier-stores-versions/42826 "2015-01-04T17:44:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Farooq\_Azam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Farooq\_Azam](https://community.wowza.com/u/Farooq_Azam)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2015, 5:44pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/playback-recordings-from-earlier-stores-versions/42826/1 "2015-01-04T17:44:51Z")

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in version recording mode, we can apparently playback only from most recent (highest) version even when using playlistdelegate

how can we playback recordings from earlier versions.

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**Author:** ![Zoran](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/zoran/32/385_2.png) [@Zoran](https://community.wowza.com/u/Zoran)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2015, 3:46pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/playback-recordings-from-earlier-stores-versions/42826/2 "2015-01-05T15:46:35Z")

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Hi,

If you set the Archive Method property to version, a new directory (for example, myStream.1) is created when the directory myStream.0 already exists when:

The stream is disconnected and then restarted.

The stream times out and then reconnects.

So, if you want to play back older versions, you will need to use a playback URL of the following format:

```auto
http://[wowza-ip-address]:1935/dvr/myStream.0/playlist.m3u8?DVR

```

Zoran