# Audio stream from VLC to Wowza to JWplayer

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/audio-stream-from-vlc-to-wowza-to-jwplayer/37253>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [March 28, 2012, 1:33am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/audio-stream-from-vlc-to-wowza-to-jwplayer/37253 "2012-03-28T01:33:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dark\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Dark\_Artist](https://community.wowza.com/u/Dark_Artist)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 1:33am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/audio-stream-from-vlc-to-wowza-to-jwplayer/37253/1 "2012-03-28T01:33:02Z")

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I an wanting to use VLC on my server machine to play various playlist of music. Stream that to the Wowza server on the machine then send that out to JWPlayer on my site, as like a radio kind of thing.

I am new to doing this audio stream.

Can anyone explain simply how i can do this. I have see these lines of code for VLC but dont know what to do with them or how to set them up for what i want.

Then what kind of application do i need to have setup in wowza to receive the stream? i have a live and an vod, that work great. i want this to be a live stream just didnt know if i needed a different app or not.

what kind of stream is best coming out of vlc? will be using mp3, wav, and wma files… and will be using rtmp to stream out of wowza.

And do i use the same setting in jwplayer that i do now for a live video stream?

Any help will be appreciated.

Thank you

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**Author:** ![Randall\_Auriemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@Randall\_Auriemma](https://community.wowza.com/u/Randall_Auriemma)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 1:15am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/audio-stream-from-vlc-to-wowza-to-jwplayer/37253/2 "2012-03-28T01:15:39Z")

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> I an wanting to use VLC on my server machine to play various playlist of music. Stream that to the Wowza server on the machine then send that out to JWPlayer on my site, as like a radio kind of thing.

You’ll have to setup VLC to encode/stream to Wowza using one of the supported types. See the specs page under “Compatible Live Encoding”: [https://www.wowza.com/media-server#specifications](https://www.wowza.com/media-server#specifications) Start by playing with the VLC GUI. And you have seen our VLC command lines.

> Then what kind of application do i need to have setup in wowza to receive the stream? i have a live and an vod, that work great. i want this to be a live stream just didnt know if i needed a different app or not.

You can publish RTMP and RTSP to a Wowza live app. Or via [MPEG-TS.](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-publish-and-play-a-live-stream-mpeg-ts-based-encoder)

> what kind of stream is best coming out of vlc? will be using mp3, wav, and wma files… and will be using rtmp to stream out of wowza.

Mp3 is supported, wav and wma are not.

> And do i use the same setting in jwplayer that i do now for a live video stream?

Here is the JWPlayer tutorial: [https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-longtail-jw-player-5-with-wowza-media-server](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-longtail-jw-player-5-with-wowza-media-server)

Be sure to read the User Guide.

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 4:53pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/audio-stream-from-vlc-to-wowza-to-jwplayer/37253/3 "2012-03-28T16:53:25Z")

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We do have this VLC guide:

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-vlc-as-a-live-stream-encoder-with-wowza-media-server-mpeg-ts](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-vlc-as-a-live-stream-encoder-with-wowza-media-server-mpeg-ts)

After you start a stream in VLC using this method, you will follow the mpeg-ts tutorial to configure Wowza, start and playback the stream:

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-publish-and-play-a-live-stream-mpeg-ts-based-encoder](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-publish-and-play-a-live-stream-mpeg-ts-based-encoder)

Richard

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**Author:** ![Dark\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Dark\_Artist](https://community.wowza.com/u/Dark_Artist)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 3:20am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/audio-stream-from-vlc-to-wowza-to-jwplayer/37253/4 "2012-03-28T03:20:45Z")

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I have seen the lines win VLC but i dont know what to do with them.

and i cant use rtmp coming out of VLC from what i understand.

is there a really simple break down guide as to how to deal with VLC pertaining to wowza?

thank you for your help
