# how to "catch" a multicast stream with jw player

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-catch-a-multicast-stream-with-jw-player/38717>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [June 4, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-catch-a-multicast-stream-with-jw-player/38717 "2012-06-04T20:21:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![matan\_riv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@matan\_riv](https://community.wowza.com/u/matan_riv)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-catch-a-multicast-stream-with-jw-player/38717/1 "2012-06-04T20:21:52Z")

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hello,

to “catch” a multycast stream with vlc player i use this url: rtsp://“ip”/live/mystream.stream?multicastplay

i want to “catch” the url for jw player with the begginig rtmp://…

what url i need to write to “catch” the multicast stream with rtmp?

thanks

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 6:45pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-catch-a-multicast-stream-with-jw-player/38717/2 "2012-06-04T18:45:05Z")

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JW Player is a Flash application and does not support rtsp or multicast. You could play the source stream of the MulticastPublish addon over rtmp, but it will be unicast

Richard