Video in content folder not picked up

Wowza Streaming Engine
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I have a video in the content folder, BornToBeWild_New_20minClip_15_to_925.mpg

When I go to the proper streaming URL: http://173.9.149.246:1935/Movies/mp4:BornToBeWild_New_20minClip_15_to_925/playlist.m3u8 I get a 404 error.

In the logs I see:

MediaReaderH264.open[Movies/_definst_]: Not found: H:/Movies/SC - Movies/BornToBeWild_New_20minClip_15_to_925.: java.io.FileNotFoundException: H:\Movies\SC - Movies\BornToBeWild_New_20minClip_15_to_925 (The system cannot find the file specified)|at java.io.RandomAccessFile.open(Native Method)|at java.io.RandomAccessFile.(Unknown Source)|at com.wowza.io.WowzaRandomAccessFile.(WowzaRandomAccessFile.java:12)|at com.wowza.io.DirectRandomAccessReader.open(DirectRandomAccessReader.java:236)|at com.wowza.wms.mediareader.h264.MediaReaderH264.open(MediaReaderH264.java:252)|

Other movies play fine, just the new ones added recently get the 404 errors.

Please help!

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I see a couple issues. One, you need a append a .mp4 extension to the stream name. You have:

http://173.9.149.246:1935/Movies/mp4:BornToBeWild_New_20minClip_15_to_925/playlist.m3u8

It should be:

http://173.9.149.246:1935/Movies/mp4:BornToBeWild_New_20minClip_15_to_925[B].mp4[/B]/playlist.m3u8

Second, take a look at the specs page:

http://wowza.com/specs.html

.mpg is not supported for VOD. Transcode to a quicktime container (.mp4, .m4v, .mov)

Regards,

Salvadore

3

Thanks for the update and glad to hear you got this sorted.

Best,

Salvadore

4

Thanks for the prompt reply. We got it working by converting to mp4 and adding the extension.

I see a couple issues. One, you need a append a .mp4 extension to the stream name. You have:

http://173.9.149.246:1935/Movies/mp4:BornToBeWild_New_20minClip_15_to_925/playlist.m3u8

It should be:

http://173.9.149.246:1935/Movies/mp4:BornToBeWild_New_20minClip_15_to_925[B].mp4[/B]/playlist.m3u8

Second, take a look at the specs page:

http://wowza.com/specs.html

.mpg is not supported for VOD. Transcode to a quicktime container (.mp4, .m4v, .mov)

Regards,

Salvadore