# Are you storing the videos in wowza streaming engine during live streaming?

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/are-you-storing-the-videos-in-wowza-streaming-engine-during-live-streaming/43535>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [October 29, 2014, 5:33am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/are-you-storing-the-videos-in-wowza-streaming-engine-during-live-streaming/43535 "2014-10-29T05:33:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bhagya\_lakshmi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/da6949/32.png) [@Bhagya\_lakshmi](https://community.wowza.com/u/Bhagya_lakshmi)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 5:33am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/are-you-storing-the-videos-in-wowza-streaming-engine-during-live-streaming/43535/1 "2014-10-29T05:33:47Z")

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Hi,

Are you storing the videos locally in wowza streaming engine during live streaming?(i.e what ever live video is streaming, are you storing anywhere temporarily in wowza?). If it stores, please let me know where it will be stored.

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![Jason\_Hilton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/jason_hilton/32/437_2.png) [@Jason\_Hilton](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jason_Hilton)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 2:07pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/are-you-storing-the-videos-in-wowza-streaming-engine-during-live-streaming/43535/2 "2014-10-29T14:07:31Z")

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Hi,

If you’re recording the stream it will be stored in the content directory allocated to the application. The default storage directory is the [Wowza-Install]/content/ directory.

When you have enabled packetization for HTTP clients, the stream will also be stored in memory for each client type. By default this is 100 seconds (10 chunks each with a 10 second duration).

This can be reduced by altering the packetization settings for each client type.

[How to configure Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming packetization (sanjosestreaming)](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-configure-adobe-hds-packetization-sanjosestreaming%28sanjosestreaming%29)

[How to configure Apple HTTP Live Streaming packetization (cupertinostreaming)](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-configure-apple-hls-packetization-cupertinostreaming%28cupertinostreaming%29)

[How to configure Microsoft Smooth Streaming packetization (smoothstreaming)](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-configure-microsoft-smooth-streaming-packetization-smoothstreaming%28smoothstreaming%29)

[How to configure MPEG-DASH packetization (mpegdashstreaming)](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-configure-mpeg-dash-packetization-mpegdashstreaming%28mpegdashstreaming%29)

Regards,

Jason

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**Author:** ![Jason\_Hilton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/jason_hilton/32/437_2.png) [@Jason\_Hilton](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jason_Hilton)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2014, 1:57pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/are-you-storing-the-videos-in-wowza-streaming-engine-during-live-streaming/43535/3 "2014-10-31T13:57:57Z")

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Hi,

You’re welcome. I hope you find the information useful.

Jason

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**Author:** ![Bhagya\_lakshmi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/da6949/32.png) [@Bhagya\_lakshmi](https://community.wowza.com/u/Bhagya_lakshmi)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 9:28pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/are-you-storing-the-videos-in-wowza-streaming-engine-during-live-streaming/43535/4 "2014-10-29T21:28:33Z")

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Thanks a lot for your quick support and providing information.