# Does Wowza reuse RTSP streams?

**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/does-wowza-reuse-rtsp-streams/41386
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [February 12, 2014, 9:08am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/does-wowza-reuse-rtsp-streams/41386 "2014-02-12T09:08:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Matthieu\_Pepin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9adbd/32.png) [@Matthieu\_Pepin](https://community.wowza.com/u/Matthieu_Pepin)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2014, 9:08am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/does-wowza-reuse-rtsp-streams/41386/1 "2014-02-12T09:08:47Z")

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Does Wowza reuse RTSP streams? What I mean by this is the following:

File1.stream in Wowza content path containing: rtsp://myserver/mystream.sdp

File2.stream in Wowza content path containing: rtsp://myserver/mystream.sdp

When both streams are started, does Wowza connect to the RTSP server twice, or is it smart enough to know that it is the same stream?

Thanks

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### 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: [February 12, 2014, 10:10am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/does-wowza-reuse-rtsp-streams/41386/2 "2014-02-12T10:10:37Z")

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Yes, Wowza will connect twice.

Salvadore

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### Author: ![Matthieu\_Pepin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9adbd/32.png) [@Matthieu\_Pepin](https://community.wowza.com/u/Matthieu_Pepin)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2014, 12:34pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/does-wowza-reuse-rtsp-streams/41386/3 "2014-02-12T12:34:46Z")

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OK! Thanks 🙂