# error ingesting HLS stream as stream file TagModelStart.isValid() failure

**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/error-ingesting-hls-stream-as-stream-file-tagmodelstart-isvalid-failure/51830
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [August 21, 2018, 8:02pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/error-ingesting-hls-stream-as-stream-file-tagmodelstart-isvalid-failure/51830 "2018-08-21T20:02:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![John\_Nogrady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/53a042/32.png) [@John\_Nogrady](https://community.wowza.com/u/John_Nogrady)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2018, 8:02pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/error-ingesting-hls-stream-as-stream-file-tagmodelstart-isvalid-failure/51830/1 "2018-08-21T20:02:31Z")

</div>

I am trying to ingest an HLS stream. I set up a stream file and connect that stream file however, the logs show error:

**2018-08-21**  
06:51:04 **comment**  
server empty TagModelStart.isValid(): Invalid: EXT-X-START tag found in playlist when version reported is 5. The tag is only valid for version \>= 6. **x-duration:** 665208.422

thus, the stream never connects (just shows as waiting on stream).

If I do a curl of the incoming hls stream, it returns headers that says it is version 6:

#EXTM3U

#EXT-X-VERSION:6

#EXT-UPLYNK-LIVE

#EXT-X-START:TIME-OFFSET=0.00

#EXT-X-INDEPENDENT-SEGMENTS

#EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=AUDIO,GROUP-ID=“aac”,NAME=“unspecified”,LANGUAGE=“en”,AUTOSELECT=YES,DEFAULT=YES

#UPLYNK-MEDIA0:416x234x30,baseline-13,2x48000

#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:RESOLUTION=416x234,BANDWIDTH=471244,CODECS=“mp4a.40.5,avc1.42000d”,FRAME-RATE=30.000,AUDIO=“aac”,AVERAGE-BANDWIDTH=380807

**Why am I not able to ingest this stream?**