# Choppy Live Playback **URL:** \ **Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\ **Created:** [February 22, 2016, 1:01pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/choppy-live-playback/44544 "2016-02-22T13:01:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mark\_gamache](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mark\_gamache](https://community.wowza.com/u/mark_gamache)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2016, 1:01pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/choppy-live-playback/44544/1 "2016-02-22T13:01:42Z")
I am running the Flash VideoChat Sample using localhost. I am seeing frames dropped and weird small pauses in the playback stream using zero buffer time. If I increase the playback buffer I notice buffer empty messages and long pauses in the video. After a long pause the video will ‘catch up’ and display frames in rapid fire. Note: _I can play the live video using VLC (rtsp) and it looks fine_. Also playing the recorded stream using VLC or Flash player looks fine. Any ideas on the cause? This is a brand new install of Wowza 4.4.0. thanks, mark ---
**Author:** ![mark\_gamache](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mark\_gamache](https://community.wowza.com/u/mark_gamache)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 11:50am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/choppy-live-playback/44544/2 "2016-02-25T11:50:06Z")
Okay the problem turned out to be the audio. I think Flash was not getting audio properly from my sound card so the video frames on the client were waiting for the audio data. ---
**Author:** ![sal\_jefferson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sal\_jefferson](https://community.wowza.com/u/sal_jefferson)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 8:20am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/choppy-live-playback/44544/3 "2016-03-01T08:20:39Z")
Thanks for the update and glad to hear you sorted this out. Regards, Salvadore