# Does the wowza flash player use http streaming?

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/does-the-wowza-flash-player-use-http-streaming/48288>\
**Category:** Wowza Player\
**Created:** [March 13, 2017, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/does-the-wowza-flash-player-use-http-streaming/48288 "2017-03-13T12:27:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![alan\_costello](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@alan\_costello](https://community.wowza.com/u/alan_costello)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2017, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/does-the-wowza-flash-player-use-http-streaming/48288/1 "2017-03-13T12:27:36Z")

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I use the wowza player for non-flash streaming, but my own old player for flash playback, because my old home-made flash player is much smoother with lower bandwidth playback - I think it is because it uses rtmp streaming and the wowza player uses http streaming within flash. Can anyone verify this?

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**Author:** ![Jason\_Hatchett](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/jason_hatchett/32/391_2.png) [@Jason\_Hatchett](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jason_Hatchett)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 9:57am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/does-the-wowza-flash-player-use-http-streaming/48288/2 "2017-05-12T09:57:50Z")

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Hello Alan,

My apologies for any delay in the response here, I am replying here to better document the basic answer to your question.

You are correct that the Wowza Player uses HTTP streaming, but it does have a fallback to Flash for users of IE 11 that cannot play the HTTP stream, but the source is still being fed from an HTTP based HLS source.

I do see that you have created Support tickets with us on other matters relating to our Wowza Player, but if the issue of quality still exists please do log a new support ticket so that we can investigate.

Regards,

Jason Hatchett