# When using media cache and smil together

**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/when-using-media-cache-and-smil-together/93344
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [May 26, 2021, 2:44pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/when-using-media-cache-and-smil-together/93344 "2021-05-26T14:44:03Z")
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### Author: ![video\_streaming](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/22d042/32.png) [@video\_streaming](https://community.wowza.com/u/video_streaming)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2021, 4:22pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/when-using-media-cache-and-smil-together/93344/2 "2021-05-26T16:22:44Z")

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Yes you can do that and if you search “Mediacache SMIL” in the forums search bar above, you would see the accepted answer for this question:

> [@Mediacache and SMIL](http://community.wowza.com/t/mediacache-and-smil/54369):
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> How can i live stream from mediacache. I’m trying make youtube livestreaming from amazon S3. I read this article : [https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-scale-video-on-demand-streaming-with-media-cache](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-scale-video-on-demand-streaming-with-media-cache), and do it step by step. But now i don’t know how to smil file can connect with mediacache to livestream. Pls help me! Thanks. 1. This is my smil file \<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?\> \<smil title=""\> \<head\>\</head\> \<body\> \<stream name="stream10"\>\</stream\> \<playlist name="pl2" playOnStre…

But the very first important step is you have the src path set up properly in MediaCache to pull the mp4 file from the 3rd party server where you have it stored. Then you can connect the two using StreamPublisher as is explained in the forum post I linked above.

**Go to 1:20 in this wowza tutorial where we show how to configure MediaCache first then click follow the steps to connect MediaCache with Smil in StreamPublisher**

[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/wowza1/original/1X/1006bd75cd196092e427fb6aca02280e5ac917fa.jpeg "Video On Demand With Wowza Streaming Engine") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPuBojdsfQo)

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