# Broadcasting to Vimeo Live from a Wowza repeater **URL:** \ **Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\ **Created:** [April 25, 2018, 7:11pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/broadcasting-to-vimeo-live-from-a-wowza-repeater/51209 "2018-04-25T19:11:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Geof\_Newton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/76d3ee/32.png) [@Geof\_Newton](https://community.wowza.com/u/Geof_Newton)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 7:11pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/broadcasting-to-vimeo-live-from-a-wowza-repeater/51209/1 "2018-04-25T19:11:24Z")
Is anyone using Wowza as a repeater to Vimeo Live? We had no problems bouncing from Wowza to Ustream and Facebook but playback of a RTMP stream bounced to Vimeo Live has periodic audio issues (duplicate delayed audio) and buffering problems. It especially has issues maintaining stable playback of a looping playlist of MP4s that we use as a pre-show and channel hold broadcast. It usually hangs when switching videos. It looks like it’s probably something in the Vimeo Live cloud, the transcode between receive and transmit perhaps, since ingest is stable and recordings are mostly good. Curious whether others have seen the same or have tweaked Wowza or Vimeo Live settings to adjust? ---
**Author:** ![Geof\_Newton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/76d3ee/32.png) [@Geof\_Newton](https://community.wowza.com/u/Geof_Newton)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 4:54pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/broadcasting-to-vimeo-live-from-a-wowza-repeater/51209/2 "2018-04-30T16:54:07Z")
I believe we’ve solved this one, should anyone encounter it: 1. set your Stream Target to Adaptive Streaming in Advanced if not already set 2. add the system-bitrate, video-bitrate and audio-bitrate parameters to each file in your playlist and make sure they match the actual bitrates in your source files, like so: 1. make sure your looping video files match the encoder settings that you’ll be using in the live broadcast or you’ll have issues taking over the stream In short, make sure all of your audio and video bitrates are consistent - otherwise the Vimeo transcoder will have problems when the video source changes, causing playback issues. ---
**Author:** ![Alex\_Hackney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@Alex\_Hackney](https://community.wowza.com/u/Alex_Hackney)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 4:56pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/broadcasting-to-vimeo-live-from-a-wowza-repeater/51209/3 "2018-05-26T16:56:15Z")
How did you even get this to work? I cant get wowza to stream to vimeo at all. ---
**Author:** ![Geof\_Newton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/76d3ee/32.png) [@Geof\_Newton](https://community.wowza.com/u/Geof_Newton)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 7:04pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/broadcasting-to-vimeo-live-from-a-wowza-repeater/51209/4 "2018-05-29T19:04:40Z")
Setting the Stream Target to Adaptive Streaming is critical. I was ok bouncing live signal once the Wowza target connected. I think Vimeo is still having major issues with their distribution network though. Even live signal direct to Vimeo would periodically hang. You can confirm by looking at archived recordings; they’re usually clean while the live playback suffers skips, halts and sync problems. ---
**Author:** ![Alex\_Hackney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@Alex\_Hackney](https://community.wowza.com/u/Alex_Hackney)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2018, 5:01pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/broadcasting-to-vimeo-live-from-a-wowza-repeater/51209/5 "2018-07-08T17:01:54Z")
I can’t even figure out what url to use to tell wowza to stream to vimeo. Can you tell me that? ---
**Author:** ![Geof\_Newton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/76d3ee/32.png) [@Geof\_Newton](https://community.wowza.com/u/Geof_Newton)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 3:35pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/broadcasting-to-vimeo-live-from-a-wowza-repeater/51209/6 "2018-07-09T15:35:48Z")
When you set up a Vimeo live event, right before activating it, you’ll see an option to “Show RTMP URL and Stream Key.” Take those and plug them into the Wowza stream target setup as so: Destination Application Name: \ Destination Host: \ Destination Port: 1935 Destination Stream Name: \ Remember, the Vimeo RTMP URL is only good for 30 minutes. If you don’t connect the repeater within 30 minutes, you’ll have to set up a new event -