# General technical question about live streaming

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/general-technical-question-about-live-streaming/45159>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [April 20, 2015, 3:48pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/general-technical-question-about-live-streaming/45159 "2015-04-20T15:48:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kasper\_Kristensen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kasper\_Kristensen](https://community.wowza.com/u/Kasper_Kristensen)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 3:48pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/general-technical-question-about-live-streaming/45159/1 "2015-04-20T15:48:12Z")

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I am very new to this, and I am just looking to be pointed in the right direction, or

be told that this is not possible at all. Any help is very much appreciated.

I want to create a desktop program that does the following:

1. Recording of my streaming software that is broadcasting esports (basicically recording of my screen).

2. Stream it to a few people (5-7 people)

3. Make it so that the people watching can:

3a. Skip/scroll around in the stream/video clip while it is stile being recorded.

3b. Only playback particular parts of the clip according to an external running data

feed(that I already have) by clicking a button in the player. For example,

the feed let’s me know every time a certain event happens in the game, like

one team winning a point.

The user should be able to watch all the times a team won a point, by clicking

the button in my app/player for showing video of all the times a point was won.

The player skips to the first event where a team wins a point, by starting

the clip x seconds before the time stamp of the event, and ending it x seconds

after. As soon as it finishes it skips to the next event where a team wins a

point, doing the same thing as before, starting the interval x seconds before

and ending x seconds after, and then skipping to the 3rd 4th ect. event

repeating the previous procedures.

Is any part of this possible? I am of course particularly thinking of 3b which is expect

to be the far most complicated part to execute 🙂

Kasper

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**Author:** ![Andrew\_Ramberg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7c8e57/32.png) [@Andrew\_Ramberg](https://community.wowza.com/u/Andrew_Ramberg)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 11:52am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/general-technical-question-about-live-streaming/45159/2 "2015-04-20T11:52:45Z")

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Hi Kasper,

1. & 2. Recording your video stream and re-distribution to 5-7 people should be possible using Wowza Streaming Engine. You will want to make sure that you have permission to re-distribute the video content. What is the source stream format?

3a. Wowza Streaming Engine includes the nDVR function, which adds recording and playback pause/skip functions to live or recorded streams.

3b. Building a custom player that uses data in from an external data feed to create time points in your video for skipping, should be possible. Wowza uses the REST API for customization. [https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-access-documentation-for-wowza-streaming-engine-rest-api](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-access-documentation-for-wowza-streaming-engine-rest-api)

Best regards,

Andrew