# SMIL Scheduling Problems

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/smil-scheduling-problems/37039>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [May 12, 2014, 4:16am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/smil-scheduling-problems/37039 "2014-05-12T04:16:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Javier\_Castro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ab992/32.png) [@Javier\_Castro](https://community.wowza.com/u/Javier_Castro)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 4:16am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/smil-scheduling-problems/37039/1 "2014-05-12T04:16:32Z")

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Hi everyone,

I’ve finished this morning the installation of new Wowza Streaming Engine and now I’m configuring it so that we have same applications running that we had in Wowza Media Server3. I’ve set up my application, step by step, just as this tutorial explains,

( [https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-schedule-streaming-with-wowza-streaming-engine-streampublisher](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-schedule-streaming-with-wowza-streaming-engine-streampublisher) ), but I’m having some troubles with scheduled vod contents. The problem is that I have some files in the “content” dir, but some others are in a subdirectory called “demo”. In Wowza Media Server3 I had this working. This was my SMIL file lines for this “nested” contents:

[…]

[…]

I tried with “/demo/mp4:20110815ExposcionRetratoCBA.mov”

also with “/_definst_/demo/mp4:20110815ExposcionRetratoCBA.mov”

But none of these options is working. Java throws this exception (error\_log file)

MediaReaderH264.open[playlists/_definst_]: Not found: C:/Program Files (x86)/Wowza Media Systems/Wowza Streaming Engine 4.0.3/content/20110815ExposcionRetratoCBA.mov.: java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Program Files (x86)\Wowza Media Systems\Wowza Streaming Engine 4.0.3\content\20110815ExposcionRetratoCBA.mov (El sistema no puede encontrar el archivo especificado)|at java.io.RandomAccessFile.open(Native Method)|at java.io.RandomAccessFile.(RandomAccessFile.java:233)|at com.wowza.io.WowzaRandomAccessFile.(WowzaRandomAccessFile.java:12)|at com.wowza.io.DirectRandomAccessReader.open(DirectRandomAccessReader.java:222)|at com.wowza.wms.mediareader.h264.MediaReaderH264.open(MediaReaderH264.java:250)|

It seems like is not trying to get this content from “demo” subdir. How can I fix that?

Many thanks

Javier.

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**Author:** ![Jason\_Hilton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/jason_hilton/32/437_2.png) [@Jason\_Hilton](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jason_Hilton)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 2:13pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/smil-scheduling-problems/37039/2 "2014-05-12T14:13:56Z")

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Hi,

The sub dir need to be specified after the mp4: prefix.

Try adjusting the .smil file so it looks like the example below.

```auto
<video src="mp4:demo/20110815ExposcionRetratoCBA.mov" start="0" length="-1"/>

```

Regards,

Jason

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**Author:** ![Javier\_Castro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ab992/32.png) [@Javier\_Castro](https://community.wowza.com/u/Javier_Castro)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 6:49am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/smil-scheduling-problems/37039/3 "2014-05-12T06:49:08Z")

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Hi Jason,

thank you very much, now my schedule is working fine.

Regards.

Javier

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**Author:** ![Jason\_Hilton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/jason_hilton/32/437_2.png) [@Jason\_Hilton](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jason_Hilton)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 1:03pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/smil-scheduling-problems/37039/4 "2014-05-14T13:03:28Z")

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Hi,

Thanks for the update.

Regards,

Jason