# Chatroulette, Flash Player 10's peer-to-peer and Wowza

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/chatroulette-flash-player-10s-peer-to-peer-and-wowza/38031>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [February 14, 2012, 5:03pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/chatroulette-flash-player-10s-peer-to-peer-and-wowza/38031 "2012-02-14T17:03:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jose\_Antonio\_Ferrand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@Jose\_Antonio\_Ferrand](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jose_Antonio_Ferrand)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 5:03pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/chatroulette-flash-player-10s-peer-to-peer-and-wowza/38031/1 "2012-02-14T17:03:13Z")

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Hi,

I’m reading that Chatroulette is a combination of Flash Player 10’s peer-to-peer ability and the Wowza Media Server.

Is it true? How do we can make this combination if Wowza doesn’t support P2P (RTMFP)?

[http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=66278](http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=66278)

Thanks guys!

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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:** [February 14, 2012, 3:32pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/chatroulette-flash-player-10s-peer-to-peer-and-wowza/38031/2 "2012-02-14T15:32:16Z")

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The P2P aspect will not work unless the user has forwarded a port on their router (or has an Internet addressable IP address). Wowza doesn’t support RTMFP at this time, so I’m not exactly sure how it works. But, I imaging that you would test if a P2P connection could be made, and if not, fallback to a regular Wowza chat connection. I believe that’s how it works with FMS as well.