# \[Strobe Media Playback + Wowza\] Can\`t play FLV

**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/strobe-media-playback-wowza-can-t-play-flv/37648
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [November 21, 2011, 3:04pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/strobe-media-playback-wowza-can-t-play-flv/37648 "2011-11-21T15:04:51Z")
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### Author: ![Anderson\_Gaspar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aca169/32.png) [@Anderson\_Gaspar](https://community.wowza.com/u/Anderson_Gaspar)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2011, 3:04pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/strobe-media-playback-wowza-can-t-play-flv/37648/1 "2011-11-21T15:04:51Z")

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Hello everyone,

I have some problems with strobe and wowza. I do play videos in .mp4, but when I try to play .flv videos I got the following message in the console:

“ERROR Server comment - MediaReaderFactory.getinstance: Missing definition for flvsanjose”

These are the paths I`m using:

-MP4: [http://localhost:1935/vod/mp4:sample.mp4/manifest.f4m](http://localhost:1935/vod/mp4:sample.mp4/manifest.f4m) [WORKS]

-FLV: [http://localhost:1935/vod/flv:sample.flv/manifest.f4m](http://localhost:1935/vod/flv:sample.flv/manifest.f4m) [ERROR]

I`m using the 3.0.3 version of Wowza and the 1.6 SMP. Any ideas?

Anderson

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### Author: ![Charlie\_Good](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/charlie_good/32/383_2.png) [@Charlie\_Good](https://community.wowza.com/u/Charlie_Good)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2011, 10:24am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/strobe-media-playback-wowza-can-t-play-flv/37648/2 "2011-11-21T10:24:03Z")

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Sanjose stream does not support FLV files. Only MP4 and MP3 files.

Charlie

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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: [November 24, 2011, 12:07am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/strobe-media-playback-wowza-can-t-play-flv/37648/3 "2011-11-24T00:07:31Z")

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Use RTMP url to playback FLV

rtmp://localhost:1935/vod/flv:sample.flv

Richard

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### Author: ![Anderson\_Gaspar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aca169/32.png) [@Anderson\_Gaspar](https://community.wowza.com/u/Anderson_Gaspar)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2011, 9:40am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/strobe-media-playback-wowza-can-t-play-flv/37648/4 "2011-11-23T09:40:12Z")

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How can I change the Sanjose stream to one that works with FLV files dynamically?

Anderson

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### Author: ![Anderson\_Gaspar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aca169/32.png) [@Anderson\_Gaspar](https://community.wowza.com/u/Anderson_Gaspar)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2011, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/strobe-media-playback-wowza-can-t-play-flv/37648/5 "2011-11-28T12:27:32Z")

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It works, thanks

Anderson