# Cannot Decode on iPad
**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/cannot-decode-on-ipad/39875
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [January 25, 2013, 5:27pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cannot-decode-on-ipad/39875 "2013-01-25T17:27:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Mark\_Rose1](https://community.wowza.com/u/Mark_Rose1)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2013, 5:27pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cannot-decode-on-ipad/39875/1 "2013-01-25T17:27:53Z")
Video feed starts and immediately displays the error Cannot Decode.
Code on page:
Wowza 3.5 server on Amazon EC2.
RTMP stream works fine.
Can anyone help?
Mark
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2013, 10:38pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cannot-decode-on-ipad/39875/2 "2013-01-25T22:38:56Z")
I could not get this stream to play on IPhone, VLC or Flash. I downloaded one of the .ts chunks from the cupertino playlist and it does not play in VLC. So there is something very wrong with this stream. What is the video and audio codec?
Richard
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2013, 5:45pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cannot-decode-on-ipad/39875/3 "2013-01-28T17:45:17Z")
What is the mp3 encoding? Try 44100Hz, 128kbs. Try stereo and mono.
Richard
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### Author:  [@Daniel\_Gutierrez](https://community.wowza.com/u/Daniel_Gutierrez)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2013, 10:26am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cannot-decode-on-ipad/39875/4 "2013-01-28T10:26:08Z")
Interested in seeing a follow up on this as I too have been seeing this error recently. Not only in iPad, but iPhone as well. In my case I use my own dedicated Windows Server setup and also streaming with H.264 Baseline 3.0 and MP3 audio.
Daniel
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### Author:  [@Mark\_Rose1](https://community.wowza.com/u/Mark_Rose1)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2013, 5:53pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cannot-decode-on-ipad/39875/5 "2013-01-25T17:53:05Z")
Video H.264, audio MP3
Internal camera and mic on MacBook Pro, pushed to Wowza with Flash Media Live Encode 3.2
Mark
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### Author:  [@Mark\_Rose1](https://community.wowza.com/u/Mark_Rose1)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2013, 11:43am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cannot-decode-on-ipad/39875/6 "2013-01-29T11:43:19Z")
That did not work but a friend at www.mediastreampro.com suggested changing the Encoding Preset to High Bandwidth 800K from Medium Bandwidth 300K. Not sure which setting needed to be changed but it works now.
Mark
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### Author:  [@Leon\_Gordin](https://community.wowza.com/u/Leon_Gordin)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2014, 11:54am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/cannot-decode-on-ipad/39875/7 "2014-07-22T11:54:47Z")
Thanks Richard, I had trouble playing the live stream from RTMP on the iphone and now I solved it thanks to your comment! Great job!