# How to access remote encoder's timestamp from the live stream saved segments?

**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-access-remote-encoders-timestamp-from-the-live-stream-saved-segments/51637
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [July 19, 2018, 4:54pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-access-remote-encoders-timestamp-from-the-live-stream-saved-segments/51637 "2018-07-19T16:54:47Z")
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### Author: ![Deanna\_Delapasse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5daacb/32.png) [@Deanna\_Delapasse](https://community.wowza.com/u/Deanna_Delapasse)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2018, 4:54pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-access-remote-encoders-timestamp-from-the-live-stream-saved-segments/51637/1 "2018-07-19T16:54:47Z")

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We have a remote camera+encoder streaming into a cloud wowza. I need to use the time from the encoder as the “create time” each time my live stream archive saves a segment.

It sounds like “presentation timestamp” might be what I need, but how can I access it? I pasted the ffprobe output below and there are 2 creation\_times, but those reflect current time from the Wowza server. We intentionally set the encoder’s timestamp to 8 hours ahead so we could detect it in the output stream segments (saves 1 file every hour), but I can’t find it anywhere below.

Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from ‘c:/temp/wowza/test\_wowza\_stream1.mp4’: Metadata: major\_brand : f4v minor\_version : 0 compatible\_brands: isommp42m4v creation\_time : 2018-07-03T17:16:43.000000Z

Duration: 01:00:05.59, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1142 kb/s Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuvj420p(pc, bt709), 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 1142 kb/s, 9.95 fps, 10 tbr, 90k tbn, 180k tbc (default)

Metadata: creation\_time : 2018-07-03T17:16:43.000000Z handler\_name : WowzaStreamingEngine encoder : WowzaStreamingEngine Stream #0:1(eng): Data: none (amf0 / 0x30666D61), 0 kb/s (default) Metadata: creation\_time : 2018-07-03T17:16:43.000000Z handler\_name : WowzaStreamingEngine