# How to play more than two  live streams on one screen on iDevices or Android devices?

**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-more-than-two-live-streams-on-one-screen-on-idevices-or-android-devices/39355
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [October 4, 2012, 8:07pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-more-than-two-live-streams-on-one-screen-on-idevices-or-android-devices/39355 "2012-10-04T20:07:36Z")
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### Author: ![William\_Huang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9e8a1a/32.png) [@William\_Huang](https://community.wowza.com/u/William_Huang)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2012, 8:07pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-more-than-two-live-streams-on-one-screen-on-idevices-or-android-devices/39355/1 "2012-10-04T20:07:36Z")

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Hi

Anybody have a good idea about play multi-stream on a single screen(it means that i want to see two or more live stream at the same time and the same browser whether the platform is iOS or Android)?

thanks

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### Author: ![Jim\_Sustacek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b487fb/32.png) [@Jim\_Sustacek](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jim_Sustacek)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2012, 8:30am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-more-than-two-live-streams-on-one-screen-on-idevices-or-android-devices/39355/2 "2012-10-04T08:30:52Z")

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We’ve used FFMPEG and its overlay feature to transcode two streams/files into one combined stream:

[http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9293265/ffmpeg-2-videos-transcoded-and-side-by-side-in-1-frame](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9293265/ffmpeg-2-videos-transcoded-and-side-by-side-in-1-frame)

Then you could send that combined stream back to Wowza.

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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: [October 4, 2012, 2:32pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-more-than-two-live-streams-on-one-screen-on-idevices-or-android-devices/39355/3 "2012-10-04T14:32:59Z")

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And VLC has something called Mosaic that will do this.

[http://wiki.videolan.org/Mosaic](http://wiki.videolan.org/Mosaic)

Richard

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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: [October 4, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-more-than-two-live-streams-on-one-screen-on-idevices-or-android-devices/39355/4 "2012-10-04T18:01:33Z")

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With a Flash Player you can have two players in a web page. The easiest on to use and do that with is this hosted player, nothing to install, the configurator generates embed you copy to your web page. You will generate two and copy both to a web page

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-strobe-media-playback-with-a-wowza-media-server](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-strobe-media-playback-with-a-wowza-media-server)

Richard

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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: [October 5, 2012, 5:08pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-more-than-two-live-streams-on-one-screen-on-idevices-or-android-devices/39355/5 "2012-10-05T17:08:10Z")

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I’m not sure what the problem might be using JW Player to do this. Try this:

```auto
<html>
<head> 
  <title>cupertinostreaming</title>
</head>
<body>
<video controls src="http://[wowza-address]:1935/vod/sample.mp4/playlist.m3u8">
</video>
<BR><BR>
<video controls src="http://[wowza-address]:1935/vod/sample2.mp4/playlist.m3u8">
</video>
</body>
</html>

```

Richard

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### Author: ![Randall\_Auriemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@Randall\_Auriemma](https://community.wowza.com/u/Randall_Auriemma)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2012, 9:27pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-more-than-two-live-streams-on-one-screen-on-idevices-or-android-devices/39355/6 "2012-10-07T21:27:47Z")

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iamkoko,

Flash does not run on iOS. [Here is a thread](http://iosguy.com/2012/01/11/multiple-video-playback-on-ios/) where users reported getting 4 streams working in the browser on iOS.

On Android, RTSP and Cupertino streams both open in a video player app outside of the browser. So for those protocols you will either have to write a custom Android app, or mux the streams using a transcoder as susta004 suggested. Flash can do it in browser on Android, but Flash has been dropped for Android 4.0 and above. I believe Adobe AIR is available for Android 4.0+ which may be a potential solution for you, but I don’t have any more info on that at this time.

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### Author: ![William\_Huang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9e8a1a/32.png) [@William\_Huang](https://community.wowza.com/u/William_Huang)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2012, 1:57am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-more-than-two-live-streams-on-one-screen-on-idevices-or-android-devices/39355/7 "2012-10-05T01:57:40Z")

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Thanks for reply, and let me describe more what I need: when I click a URL (rtsp or hls), that will lunch a browser to play a live or a playback, but there is only one Live or playback will be present, how do I play two live or playback on one browser one tab(iOS and android).

Thanks.

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### Author: ![William\_Huang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9e8a1a/32.png) [@William\_Huang](https://community.wowza.com/u/William_Huang)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2012, 12:30pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-more-than-two-live-streams-on-one-screen-on-idevices-or-android-devices/39355/8 "2012-10-05T12:30:00Z")

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Hi Richard

thanks for that.

This way seems not work on iPAD, the embed code only work on Windows platform.

Is it possible that play two or more players in a web page on iPAD or something mobile device on android in a web page?

check the pic as follows:

How do i how tow players in a web page on iPAD(iOS) and Android?

Thanks

![](http://streaming.e-imagin.com/sample.png)

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### Author: ![William\_Huang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9e8a1a/32.png) [@William\_Huang](https://community.wowza.com/u/William_Huang)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2012, 11:31am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-more-than-two-live-streams-on-one-screen-on-idevices-or-android-devices/39355/9 "2012-10-08T11:31:27Z")

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Hi Richard

It looks like a Video on Demand, and how does it go if play in live mode?

TWO live mode players in a web page on ipad.

thanks

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### Author: ![Anshuman\_Sharma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19b73/32.png) [@Anshuman\_Sharma](https://community.wowza.com/u/Anshuman_Sharma)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2015, 9:04pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-more-than-two-live-streams-on-one-screen-on-idevices-or-android-devices/39355/10 "2015-07-30T21:04:17Z")

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Hello All,

I want to know that any is got success to play two or more RTSP stream on Android. I want to play two and four RTSP stream at the same time on one screen.

I can able to to play single RTSP using “LibVLCAndroid” or by “VitamioLib” but requirement is to play multiple stream at the same time. please help me out. Please help me how can i do it?
