# How to play wowza stream url raspberry pi with vlc or omxplayer

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-wowza-stream-url-raspberry-pi-with-vlc-or-omxplayer/51202>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Tags:** encoder\
**Created:** [April 26, 2018, 3:52pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-wowza-stream-url-raspberry-pi-with-vlc-or-omxplayer/51202 "2018-04-26T15:52:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![henk\_hooijenga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9bd4f/32.png) [@henk\_hooijenga](https://community.wowza.com/u/henk_hooijenga)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 3:52pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-wowza-stream-url-raspberry-pi-with-vlc-or-omxplayer/51202/1 "2018-04-26T15:52:38Z")

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my stream is :

[http://rrr.sz.xlcdn.com/?account=bdl&file=Zeearend1&type=live&service=wowza&output=mp4](http://rrr.sz.xlcdn.com/?account=bdl&file=Zeearend1&type=live&service=wowza&output=mp4)

i can load the stream in GUI vlc. ( gives some errors when starting , but stream ok )

how to use this url with vlc or omxplayer on a raspberry pi. ( h264/mp4 or other )

simply command line like ; vlc

[http://rrr.sz.xlcdn.com/?account=bdl&file=Zeearend1&type=live&service=wowza&output=mp4](http://rrr.sz.xlcdn.com/?account=bdl&file=Zeearend1&type=live&service=wowza&output=mp4) does not work.

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**Author:** ![henk\_hooijenga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9bd4f/32.png) [@henk\_hooijenga](https://community.wowza.com/u/henk_hooijenga)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 3:52pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-wowza-stream-url-raspberry-pi-with-vlc-or-omxplayer/51202/2 "2018-04-26T15:52:40Z")

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to answer my own question :

use : omxplayer “my complete url”

so for omxplayer and another stream i knwo this would be

omxplayer “[http://rrr.sz.xlcdn.com/?account=itfryskegea&file=ooievaar&type=live&service=wowza&protocol=http&output=playlist.m3u8](http://rrr.sz.xlcdn.com/?account=itfryskegea&file=ooievaar&type=live&service=wowza&protocol=http&output=playlist.m3u8)”

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**Author:** ![henk\_hooijenga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9bd4f/32.png) [@henk\_hooijenga](https://community.wowza.com/u/henk_hooijenga)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 1:14pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-play-wowza-stream-url-raspberry-pi-with-vlc-or-omxplayer/51202/3 "2018-04-26T13:14:59Z")

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beware that in a script file these “your\_url” should be ‘your\_url’ , took me another 10 minutes to see that. , so there is a difference in “” and ‘’