# smil on s3 with JWPlayer 6

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/smil-on-s3-with-jwplayer-6/40123>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [March 26, 2013, 12:58pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/smil-on-s3-with-jwplayer-6/40123 "2013-03-26T12:58:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Ryan\_Robinson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ryan\_Robinson](https://community.wowza.com/u/Ryan_Robinson)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 12:58pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/smil-on-s3-with-jwplayer-6/40123/1 "2013-03-26T12:58:59Z")

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I have set up a Wowza instance on EC2 and I can stream the sample file. I can even stream one of my own files from my s3bucket using JWPlayer 6. But, I cannot get adaptive bitrate to work. When I look at the network console in Firebug, the player is requesting crossdomain.xml from the root of my instance which fails because it doesn’t exist.

I followed the instructions [here](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-jw-player-with-adaptive-bitrate-streaming-from-wowza-streaming-engine) and edited vhost.xml (although I tried it without the edit because it looked to me like the second to last entry already had the required entry).

I have 4 videos in my s3 bucket and a smil manifest (video.smil) that looks like this:

```auto
<smil>
  <head>
  </head>
  <body>
    <switch>
        <video src="mp4:video_320X180.mp4" system-bitrate="250000" width="320"/>
        <video src="mp4:video_480X270.mp4" system-bitrate="400000" width="480"/>
        <video src="mp4:video_960X540.mp4" system-bitrate="1000000" width="960"/>
        <video src="mp4:video_1280X720.mp4" system-bitrate="1400000" width="1280"/>
    </switch>
  </body>
</smil>

```

my JWPlayer urls are:

[http://my-instance-dns.compute.amazonaws.com/vods3/_definst_/smil:amazons3/mybucket/assets/video/test/video.smil/jwplayer.smil](http://my-instance-dns.compute.amazonaws.com/vods3/_definst_/smil:amazons3/mybucket/assets/video/test/video.smil/jwplayer.smil)

[http://my-instance-dns.compute.amazonaws.com/vods3/_definst_/smil:amazons3/mybucket/assets/video/test/video.smil/playlist.m3u8](http://my-instance-dns.compute.amazonaws.com/vods3/_definst_/smil:amazons3/mybucket/assets/video/test/video.smil/playlist.m3u8)

The player loads, but when I press play (on a pc or ios device) the “loading” spinner runs for about 15 seconds and the player displays the error “manifest not found”. In the console on chrome I can see that as soon as I click play the browser makes a request to:

Request URL:[http://my-instance-dns.compute.amazonaws.com/crossdomain.xml](http://my-instance-dns.compute.amazonaws.com/crossdomain.xml) which eventually fails with with no response code.

This URL plays fine, but it is not adaptive which is what we are after: rtmp://my-instance-dns.compute.amazonaws.com/vods3/_definst_/mp4:amazons3/mybucket/assets/video/test/video\_1280X720.mp4

What am I doing wrong?

EDIT: For what it is worth, I have a local smil. When I load it into the flash player it works fine.

```auto
<smil>
  <head>
    <meta base="rtmp://my-instance-dns.compute.amazonaws.com/vods3/_definst_"/>
  </head>
  <body>
    <switch>
        <video src="amazons3/mybucket/assets/video/test/video_320X180.mp4" system-bitrate="250000" width="320"/>
        <video src="amazons3/mybucket/assets/video/test/video_480X270.mp4" system-bitrate="400000" width="480"/>
        <video src="amazons3/mybucket/assets/video/test/video_960X540.mp4" system-bitrate="1000000" width="960"/>
        <video src="amazons3/mybucket/assets/video/test/video_1280X720.mp4" system-bitrate="1400000" width="1280"/>
    </switch>
  </body> 
</smil>

```

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 9:53pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/smil-on-s3-with-jwplayer-6/40123/2 "2013-03-26T21:53:57Z")

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How were these videos encoded, what encoder did you use? Each video must be key frame aligned for switching to work. The Expression 4 Encoder is known to do this as required, there are pre-set examples in this article:

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-encode-video-on-demand-content](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-encode-video-on-demand-content)

The only way to debug alignment of vod assets in Wowza is to stream them live like this:

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-do-scheduled-adaptive-bitrate-streaming-using-stream-class-streams](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-do-scheduled-adaptive-bitrate-streaming-using-stream-class-streams)

Then enable this debug property:

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-debug-encoder-multi-bitrate-keyframe-alignment](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-debug-encoder-multi-bitrate-keyframe-alignment)

Also, for testing, you might try ABR streaming with .smil in the Wowza /examples/VideoOnDemandStreaming/FlashHTTPPlayer, or Silverlight player.

Richard

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/smil-on-s3-with-jwplayer-6/40123/3 "2013-03-27T12:19:50Z")

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Right, JW Player does not use the server-side smil. JW Player uses a local .smil. You can leverage the server-side smil for JW Player 6:

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-jw-player-with-adaptive-bitrate-streaming-from-wowza-streaming-engine](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-jw-player-with-adaptive-bitrate-streaming-from-wowza-streaming-engine)

There is an example here:

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-jw-player-with-wowza-streaming-engine](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-jw-player-with-wowza-streaming-engine)

Richard

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 4:35pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/smil-on-s3-with-jwplayer-6/40123/4 "2013-03-27T16:35:30Z")

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Corrected the first link in previous post, changed to:

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-jw-player-with-adaptive-bitrate-streaming-from-wowza-streaming-engine](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-jw-player-with-adaptive-bitrate-streaming-from-wowza-streaming-engine)

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**Author:** ![Ryan\_Robinson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ryan\_Robinson](https://community.wowza.com/u/Ryan_Robinson)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 8:41pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/smil-on-s3-with-jwplayer-6/40123/5 "2013-03-26T20:41:25Z")

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They are key frame aligned. The were encoded with Adobe Media Encoder CS6. Like I mentioned at the end of the post, I can stream them using ABR in flash if I put a smil (video.smil) on my server in the same directory as the page that contains my JWPlayer that looks like this:

```auto
<smil>
  <head>
    <meta base="rtmp://my-instance-dns.compute.amazonaws.com/vods3/_definst_"/>
  </head>
  <body>
    <switch>
        <video src="amazons3/mybucket/assets/video/test/video_320X180.mp4" system-bitrate="250000" width="320"/>
        <video src="amazons3/mybucket/assets/video/test/video_480X270.mp4" system-bitrate="400000" width="480"/>
        <video src="amazons3/mybucket/assets/video/test/video_960X540.mp4" system-bitrate="1000000" width="960"/>
        <video src="amazons3/mybucket/assets/video/test/video_1280X720.mp4" system-bitrate="1400000" width="1280"/>
    </switch>
  </body> 
</smil>

```

I can then load it with a setup like this:

```auto
<script type="text/javascript">
 jwplayer('player').setup({
                autostart: false,
        sources: [
                { file: "video.smil"}
            ],
        rtmp: {
                bufferlength: 5
        },
        width: "480",
        height: "270",
        primary: "flash",
        });
</script>

```

But, when I try to do anything with server side ABR playback nothing happens. The video won’t even start. And, like I mentioned, the network traffic shows a request to

```auto
my-ec2-dns/crossdomain.xml

```

which it willnot find since there is no crossdomain.xml file in the root directory on my ec2 instance. Because that request fails, playback fails. Let me know if you want a link to the test player so you can see what I mean. Any other ideas on what the problem might be?