# Can Wowza pull hls stream from ffmpeg ?

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/can-wowza-pull-hls-stream-from-ffmpeg/40723>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [July 31, 2015, 3:36pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/can-wowza-pull-hls-stream-from-ffmpeg/40723 "2015-07-31T15:36:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![santosh\_shirahatti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@santosh\_shirahatti](https://community.wowza.com/u/santosh_shirahatti)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2015, 3:36pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/can-wowza-pull-hls-stream-from-ffmpeg/40723/1 "2015-07-31T15:36:51Z")

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I am trying to stream HLS output from ffmpeg to wowza. Doing rtmp (2nd approach) works but not HLS.

ffmpeg -re -i [http://localhost:1935/vod/sample.mp4/playlist.m3u8](http://localhost:1935/vod/sample.mp4/playlist.m3u8) -vcodec copy -acodec copy -f HLS [http://localhost:1935/live/test/playlist.m3u8](http://localhost:1935/live/test/playlist.m3u8)

instead of

ffmpeg -re -i [http://localhost:1935/vod/sample.mp4/playlist.m3u8](http://localhost:1935/vod/sample.mp4/playlist.m3u8) -vcodec copy -acodec copy -f flv rtmp://localhost:1935/live/test

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**Author:** ![Roger\_Littin1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c89c15/32.png) [@Roger\_Littin1](https://community.wowza.com/u/Roger_Littin1)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 12:42pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/can-wowza-pull-hls-stream-from-ffmpeg/40723/2 "2015-08-04T12:42:06Z")

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Hi,

The first one won’t work because HLS ingest is not currently supported. The second one uses RTMP ingest which is supported.

Roger.