# How to play live streams with a single, static key frame?

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-live-streams-with-a-single-static-key-frame/45896>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [September 5, 2015, 9:35am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-live-streams-with-a-single-static-key-frame/45896 "2015-09-05T09:35:18Z")\
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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:** [September 7, 2015, 12:58pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-live-streams-with-a-single-static-key-frame/45896/2 "2015-09-07T12:58:07Z")

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Hello there.

I would suggest you run the source stream through the Wowza Transcoder and add key-frames to the stream with the **Video/KeyFrameInterval** tag.

[How to set up and run Wowza Transcoder for live streaming](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-set-up-and-run-wowza-transcoder-for-live-streaming#template_encode)

Alternatively, you can use FFMPEG to do the same thing. You can find example code for setting the GOP (Key-frame interval) here:

[Frequently requested FFMPEG command examples for Wowza](http://community.wowza.com/t/-/36326)

Regards,

Salvadore

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