# How to attach data to a live stream?

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-attach-data-to-a-live-stream/40013>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [April 26, 2014, 8:56am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-attach-data-to-a-live-stream/40013 "2014-04-26T08:56:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Richard\_Perez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/48db29/32.png) [@Richard\_Perez](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Perez)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2014, 8:56am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-attach-data-to-a-live-stream/40013/1 "2014-04-26T08:56:18Z")

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Dear All,

I have a live stream application with the record option activated then i have a VOD application that can replay the film that have been recorded.

I would like to attach some data like “title”, “location”, “Actor” to a live stream and display them during the live stream and the into the VOD playing.

But i don’t know what property to use. I had a look to metadata but it seems that metadata doesn’t survive the recording process. I already think of storing this data into a database but it would be easier if i could embed this data into the media file. How can i do?

Best regards

Richard

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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:** [April 26, 2014, 5:37pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-attach-data-to-a-live-stream/40013/2 "2014-04-26T17:37:22Z")

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You are right Richard, the data is not included in the recording of the stream. At present I do not know of any way to achieve this through Wowza.

You might consider using a 3rd party tool to the meta data to the VoD files after they are created. One option would be [Captionate](http://www.buraks.com/captionate/) just as an example.

Salvadore