# Basic Live Streaming Problem

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/basic-live-streaming-problem/41872>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [November 13, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/basic-live-streaming-problem/41872 "2014-11-13T16:44:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Martin\_Tremblay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@Martin\_Tremblay](https://community.wowza.com/u/Martin_Tremblay)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/basic-live-streaming-problem/41872/1 "2014-11-13T16:44:18Z")

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I am quite new to this.

Trying to stream a live video, I don’t get an error, but the video never play.

Theses are the steps I took.

-Create a new stream [martin.stream] in the “live” application.

-The stream URI is from S3 Bucket. [http://[FOLDER]/video.mp4]

-When testing with “Test Players”, i get the “martin.stream is now published” status, but the video never play.

-Trying the same thing with Flash, I get the NetStream.Play.PublishNotify status, but the video never play.

Not quite sure if I need to use an encoder or if I’m missing a step.

Thx

Martin

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**Author:** ![Daren\_Johnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@Daren\_Johnson](https://community.wowza.com/u/Daren_Johnson)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2014, 11:50pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/basic-live-streaming-problem/41872/2 "2014-11-13T23:50:43Z")

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Hi,

It looks like you are trying to stream a static video MP4 file as a live stream.

What you are doing would work for a live stream sent in from a live encoder, but won’t work for a static file.

The best way to stream a static mp4 file out as a live stream is to use this [Scheduled Streaming](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-schedule-streaming-with-wowza-streaming-engine-streampublisher%28ServerListenerStreamPublisher%29) method.

Daren