# Wowza player vod short video (less than 6 seconds) playback issue

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-player-vod-short-video-less-than-6-seconds-playback-issue/52027>\
**Category:** Wowza Player\
**Created:** [October 1, 2018, 1:01pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-player-vod-short-video-less-than-6-seconds-playback-issue/52027 "2018-10-01T13:01:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cristian\_Moldovan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Cristian\_Moldovan](https://community.wowza.com/u/Cristian_Moldovan)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 1:01pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-player-vod-short-video-less-than-6-seconds-playback-issue/52027/1 "2018-10-01T13:01:19Z")

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We are playing a VOD video from wowza streaming engine using wowza player (hls). The player does not render anything if the video size is less than 5-6 seconds. There is no player (browser console error). Can this be fixed, either changing the configuration on the vod (streaming engine) application level, or on the player level?

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**Author:** ![Rose\_Power-Wowza\_Com](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/rose_power-wowza_com/32/431_2.png) [@Rose\_Power-Wowza\_Com](https://community.wowza.com/u/Rose_Power-Wowza_Com)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 7:37pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-player-vod-short-video-less-than-6-seconds-playback-issue/52027/2 "2018-10-01T19:37:28Z")

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You are correct @Cristian Moldovan that you need 6 seconds in chunk size for proper HLS playback in the Wowza Player. What you could do in the VOD application level is configure a longer video like 9 seconds and have it set up to end the video and switch to black at 7 seconds. You could also loop the video, but not sure if that is what you would want to do.

I would suggest reaching out to our engineers through a support ticket and we can walkthrough some possible scenarios when we see your use case.

**[https://www.wowza.com/support/open-ticket](https://www.wowza.com/support/open-ticket)**

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**Author:** ![Cristian\_Moldovan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Cristian\_Moldovan](https://community.wowza.com/u/Cristian_Moldovan)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2018, 10:50am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-player-vod-short-video-less-than-6-seconds-playback-issue/52027/3 "2018-10-02T10:50:02Z")

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Thank you, we have a way to ensure the size is at least 6 seconds, if there is no way around it.