# Wowza Streaming Engine **URL:** https://community.wowza.com/c/wowza-streaming-engine/8.md?page=221 [Latest](https://community.wowza.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://community.wowza.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://community.wowza.com/tags.md) **Page:** 222 --- ## [EC2 vods3 Test Players not working](https://community.wowza.com/t/ec2-vods3-test-players-not-working/43210)
**Author:** [@Gary\_Kahn](https://community.wowza.com/u/Gary_Kahn)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [September 13, 2014, 10:19am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/ec2-vods3-test-players-not-working/43210 "2014-09-13T10:19:19Z")
Hi There, I just installed a fresh instance of Wowza on an EC2 instance. I noticed that the Test Players panel is not working on the vods3 application. I did not do anything to the server except add our license. It seem… --- ## [Transcoding crashed server unexpectedly](https://community.wowza.com/t/transcoding-crashed-server-unexpectedly/36220)
**Author:** [@Eddie\_Hermoso](https://community.wowza.com/u/Eddie_Hermoso)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 12, 2014, 4:56pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/transcoding-crashed-server-unexpectedly/36220 "2014-09-12T16:56:04Z")
I incorrectly posted this in the Streaming Engine forum so posting this properly. Our Wowza server crashed randomly. Looking at the logs, it appears to be related to the real-time transcoder. Both the error.log and acce… --- ## [Strange video effects from transcoded video](https://community.wowza.com/t/strange-video-effects-from-transcoded-video/36885)
**Author:** [@Jason\_Burrows](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jason_Burrows)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 12, 2014, 11:23am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/strange-video-effects-from-transcoded-video/36885 "2014-09-12T11:23:30Z")
We are running the latest build of Wowza Streaming Engine with the trans coder. When we look at our source video from Wowza everything looks good. However, when we pull a transcoded feed we get shifts in light and textur… --- ## [Strange Video Size Issue](https://community.wowza.com/t/strange-video-size-issue/34810)
**Author:** [@bob\_ka](https://community.wowza.com/u/bob_ka)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 12, 2014, 10:15am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/strange-video-size-issue/34810 "2014-09-12T10:15:44Z")
OK so using JW Player I have - the same video - that plays back in my player at correct size from wowza (private) but the public version (for trailer) plays back same video with wrong aspect. The source is from dv so no… --- ## [Unusual Total Memory Usage](https://community.wowza.com/t/unusual-total-memory-usage/34926)
**Author:** [@Alan\_Halls](https://community.wowza.com/u/Alan_Halls)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [September 12, 2014, 10:09am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/unusual-total-memory-usage/34926 "2014-09-12T10:09:33Z")
I have been running with Wowza 4.0 on 3 servers, all are identical hardware and in configuration except for one. It uses one HTTP Origin stream and also has a locally hosted VOD unlike the others. It has been using an un… --- ## [wowza using 100% memory](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-using-100-memory/196)
**Author:** [@system](https://community.wowza.com/u/system)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 12, 2014, 9:24am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-using-100-memory/196 "2014-09-12T09:24:20Z")
Hello i just made an upgrade from w3 to w4 (ubuntu 64bits, 24G ram, quad core) i’m surprised that since i upgraded, wowza is using 100% of the ram (on 24G, a top shows me only 150M free memory). A atop shows me that th… --- ## [Error on startup for mediacache using Amazon S3](https://community.wowza.com/t/error-on-startup-for-mediacache-using-amazon-s3/43869)
**Author:** [@Gary\_Monk](https://community.wowza.com/u/Gary_Monk)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 12, 2014, 7:18am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/error-on-startup-for-mediacache-using-amazon-s3/43869 "2014-09-12T07:18:02Z")
I’m receiving the following error when the mediacache gets initialized… ERROR server comment 2014-09-11 15:19:22 - - - - - 0.269 - - - - - - - - ServerUtils.loadServerListener: Error creating (com.wowza.wms.plugin.medi… --- ## [Wowza Server is temporarily down when I turn off and turn on Wowza Load test Tool](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-server-is-temporarily-down-when-i-turn-off-and-turn-on-wowza-load-test-tool/40953)
**Author:** [@Manh\_Hung\_Nguyen](https://community.wowza.com/u/Manh_Hung_Nguyen)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 12, 2014, 1:17am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-server-is-temporarily-down-when-i-turn-off-and-turn-on-wowza-load-test-tool/40953 "2014-09-12T01:17:32Z")
Hi everyone, I use Wowza Load Test Tool to check my Wowza Engine Server. For more details, I I create 200 .mp4 video files, bitrate of each video file is 2,6 Mbps, and configure VoD caching with 200 GB SSD Storage. I… --- ## [Correct way to put live streams in Playlist](https://community.wowza.com/t/correct-way-to-put-live-streams-in-playlist/43672)
**Author:** [@Alexander\_Ushakov](https://community.wowza.com/u/Alexander_Ushakov)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 11, 2014, 7:18pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/correct-way-to-put-live-streams-in-playlist/43672 "2014-09-11T19:18:49Z")
What is a correct way to put live stream in Playlist with ServerSide API? If I put just name Wowza searches for .stream file with this name. How to put published stream (without .stream file) in Playlist? And what to do… --- ## [Problems with live stream using cloudformation](https://community.wowza.com/t/problems-with-live-stream-using-cloudformation/43840)
**Author:** [@Simon\_Ball](https://community.wowza.com/u/Simon_Ball)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 11, 2014, 4:33pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/problems-with-live-stream-using-cloudformation/43840 "2014-09-11T16:33:08Z")
Hi I have been stuck on this for a few days. I have been trying to stream an rtsp ip camera using aws and cloud formation but I cannot get wowza to accept the stream. I originally started by following Live HTTP streami… --- ## [Using Amazon's S3 as a repository](https://community.wowza.com/t/using-amazons-s3-as-a-repository/43868)
**Author:** [@Gary\_Monk](https://community.wowza.com/u/Gary_Monk)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 11, 2014, 2:37pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/using-amazons-s3-as-a-repository/43868 "2014-09-11T14:37:22Z")
First, I am new to Wowza and media streaming in general. I have an application where I need to be able to view web pages that include video on all types of devices, both desktop and mobile. I am using Jwplayer to play t… --- ## [Live stream from Wowza to HTML5 Flowplayer](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-stream-from-wowza-to-html5-flowplayer/39316)
**Author:** [@Cawe\_Coy](https://community.wowza.com/u/Cawe_Coy)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 11, 2014, 10:10am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-stream-from-wowza-to-html5-flowplayer/39316 "2014-09-11T10:10:48Z")
How to support live stream from Wowza in a HTML5 Flowplayer? Something like this… \[HTML\] \ body { font: 12px "Myriad Pro", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; text-align: center; padding-top: 5%; } .flo… --- ## [Genetec Omnicast](https://community.wowza.com/t/genetec-omnicast/33639)
**Author:** [@david\_hohf](https://community.wowza.com/u/david_hohf)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 11, 2014, 5:55am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/genetec-omnicast/33639 "2014-09-11T05:55:52Z")
Is there anyway to serve video to be re-broadcasted through another video server from Wowza? A large part of the organizations video infrastructure uses Genetec and it’s players. The video needs high availability throug… --- ## [3.6.4 unexpected crash - real-time transcoder](https://community.wowza.com/t/3-6-4-unexpected-crash-real-time-transcoder/36218)
**Author:** [@Eddie\_Hermoso](https://community.wowza.com/u/Eddie_Hermoso)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2014, 3:38pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/3-6-4-unexpected-crash-real-time-transcoder/36218 "2014-09-10T15:38:17Z")
Our Wowza server crashed randomly. Looking at the logs, it appears to be related to the real-time transcoder. Both the error.log and access.log have this final entry and then it crashed: TranscoderWorkerVideoDecoder.set… --- ## [http://IP:8086/connectioncounts stop working](https://community.wowza.com/t/http-ip-8086-connectioncounts-stop-working/35908)
**Author:** [@Emilio\_Zaldivar](https://community.wowza.com/u/Emilio_Zaldivar)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2014, 1:56pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/http-ip-8086-connectioncounts-stop-working/35908 "2014-09-10T13:56:05Z")
Hi, From one day to another the link http://IP:8086/connectioncounts AND http://IP:8086/serverinfo stop working. I am sure the is no port blocked or firewall… I don´t know what to do! Wowza Media Server 3 Monthly Edi… --- ## [ec2 upload performance](https://community.wowza.com/t/ec2-upload-performance/39874)
**Author:** [@Jeremy\_Walts](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jeremy_Walts)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2014, 9:45am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/ec2-upload-performance/39874 "2014-09-10T09:45:46Z")
I noticed some poor stream performance on a c3.2xlarge ec2 instance from a wowza pre-built ami (ami-f6a5789e). I did a quick speedtest and upload speed never went above 3.5Mbit/s. I test on multiple speedtest servers. I … --- ## [New to Wowza, advice for large live event](https://community.wowza.com/t/new-to-wowza-advice-for-large-live-event/43835)
**Author:** [@Terry\_Barnum](https://community.wowza.com/u/Terry_Barnum)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2014, 9:34am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/new-to-wowza-advice-for-large-live-event/43835 "2014-09-10T09:34:52Z")
I’m brand new to Wowza and have successfully set up a simple live HLS stream from FMLE to an AWS EC2 m1.small instance with CloudFront using the sample AWS CloudFormation docs http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/… --- ## [Mpeg-DASH CENC with Widevine License Server or Generic](https://community.wowza.com/t/mpeg-dash-cenc-with-widevine-license-server-or-generic/38989)
**Author:** [@Ferdinand\_Hernandez](https://community.wowza.com/u/Ferdinand_Hernandez)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2014, 9:34am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/mpeg-dash-cenc-with-widevine-license-server-or-generic/38989 "2014-09-10T09:34:22Z")
Hi Guys, We are currently looking into implementing Common encryption for DASH stream. I have read this article about common encryption support on DRM Add on (https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-secure-mpeg-dash-streaming… --- ## [How are you guys aligning your transcripts?](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-are-you-guys-aligning-your-transcripts/34930)
**Author:** [@Alan\_Halls](https://community.wowza.com/u/Alan_Halls)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2014, 9:13am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-are-you-guys-aligning-your-transcripts/34930 "2014-09-10T09:13:56Z")
I have about 200 hours of video in 750 files that I have transcripts for, but I need to align them. I have spent pretty much the entire week trying out software after software. There are quite a few open source projects… --- ## [recording live streams on Wowza 4](https://community.wowza.com/t/recording-live-streams-on-wowza-4/195)
**Author:** [@system](https://community.wowza.com/u/system)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2014, 8:51am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/recording-live-streams-on-wowza-4/195 "2014-09-10T08:51:57Z")
Hi all a few questions regarding live streams recording since wowza 4: i was previously using the liveStreamRecord add when i was using wowza 3 i was calling the recording this way: \[HTML\]var recordSetting:Object = n… --- ## [retention of logs](https://community.wowza.com/t/retention-of-logs/36700)
**Author:** [@Kleber\_Prando](https://community.wowza.com/u/Kleber_Prando)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2014, 1:32am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/retention-of-logs/36700 "2014-09-10T01:32:35Z")
Hello, how do to set the retention of logs in Wowza. Need keep only the last 5 logs. Is it possible? Thanks ! --- ## [VOD on Android](https://community.wowza.com/t/vod-on-android/34808)
**Author:** [@bob\_ka](https://community.wowza.com/u/bob_ka)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2014, 11:03pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/vod-on-android/34808 "2014-09-09T23:03:11Z")
can anyone tell me why on android our player is not working seamlessly? e.g. the video sort of works after a cumbersome series of clicks that launches a video player. experience is choky and unprofessional. it works we… --- ## [Hung up on Sign In page for Streaming Engine Manager](https://community.wowza.com/t/hung-up-on-sign-in-page-for-streaming-engine-manager/43838)
**Author:** [@ed\_oconnell](https://community.wowza.com/u/ed_oconnell)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2014, 3:26pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/hung-up-on-sign-in-page-for-streaming-engine-manager/43838 "2014-09-09T15:26:48Z")
Okay . . . I’m sure this has been covered before, but I couldn’t find it by pasting the text ‘To continue, enter the user name and password you entered during installation.’ into the search box. I cannot get past this p… --- ## [What happen when a mediacache disk failed ?](https://community.wowza.com/t/what-happen-when-a-mediacache-disk-failed/43783)
**Author:** [@Frank\_Chiang](https://community.wowza.com/u/Frank_Chiang)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2014, 1:14pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/what-happen-when-a-mediacache-disk-failed/43783 "2014-09-09T13:14:13Z")
hi there I want to make use of the mediacache to cache hot and recent content in the engine local disk , i would like to know what will happen when the cache disk failed ( I want to use 4 x 4TB disk as raid 0 to have ma… --- ## [how to upload chunk of files from ios to wowza streaming engine?](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-upload-chunk-of-files-from-ios-to-wowza-streaming-engine/43515)
**Author:** [@Bhagya\_lakshmi](https://community.wowza.com/u/Bhagya_lakshmi)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2014, 11:41am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-upload-chunk-of-files-from-ios-to-wowza-streaming-engine/43515 "2014-09-09T11:41:59Z")
Hi, How to stream live video chunks from ios to wowza streaming engine? Help is highly appreciable. Thanks in advance. -Bhagya --- ## [rtsp-live Wowza](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtsp-live-wowza/43073)
**Author:** [@Guilherme\_Nozawa](https://community.wowza.com/u/Guilherme_Nozawa)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2014, 11:26am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtsp-live-wowza/43073 "2014-09-09T11:26:21Z")
Hey Everyone, I have a Wowza Streaming Engine version 4.0.4 running in a EC2 instance. I configure streams for rtsp-live stream type. That’s was working but now stoped to stream. When I try access any stream Wowza publi… --- ## [when stream not "live" playback "standby" media until live?](https://community.wowza.com/t/when-stream-not-live-playback-standby-media-until-live/43766)
**Author:** [@Denis\_Golovniov1](https://community.wowza.com/u/Denis_Golovniov1)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2014, 11:17am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/when-stream-not-live-playback-standby-media-until-live/43766 "2014-09-09T11:17:11Z")
Hi Guys, It might have been addressed before, but here is a question. I was in contact with JW guys, and here is the situation. If stream is not “live” on our wowza server. then player will display " erro id not found… --- ## [new ip camera giving issues](https://community.wowza.com/t/new-ip-camera-giving-issues/283)
**Author:** [@system](https://community.wowza.com/u/system)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 8, 2014, 10:25pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/new-ip-camera-giving-issues/283 "2014-09-08T22:25:10Z")
i mostly use flash media encoder for my streams but have recently looked at ip cameras, the new one from Dahua,s 3Megapixel cftv IPC-HFW5300C looks great BUT it wont play on iphone or other devices, I can get it to play … --- ## [How to stream chunk of video file to Wowza - java](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-stream-chunk-of-video-file-to-wowza-java/43827)
**Author:** [@Akshea\_R](https://community.wowza.com/u/Akshea_R)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 8, 2014, 6:39pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-stream-chunk-of-video-file-to-wowza-java/43827 "2014-09-08T18:39:17Z")
Hi, I have chunk of live video stream files, is there any java library to live stream chunk of video file to Wowza. Please help. Thanks in advance. --- ## [flv via http from mp4 on s3](https://community.wowza.com/t/flv-via-http-from-mp4-on-s3/43796)
**Author:** [@biomancer](https://community.wowza.com/u/biomancer)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 8, 2014, 5:47pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/flv-via-http-from-mp4-on-s3/43796 "2014-09-08T17:47:14Z")
Hi! I cannot find a way in Wowza Streaming Engine to get flv file, that is a result of transmuxing of origin mp4, via http, not rtmp, is that possible? Origin mp4 file is kept on s3, so I am using vods3. [Previous page](https://community.wowza.com/c/wowza-streaming-engine/8.md?page=220) [Next page](https://community.wowza.com/c/wowza-streaming-engine/8.md?page=222)