# How to re-stream an unprotected stream from FMS or a CDN such as Akamai

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**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [January 26, 2010, 12:31pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-re-stream-an-unprotected-stream-from-fms-or-a-cdn-such-as-akamai/87 "2010-01-26T12:31:54Z")\
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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:** [September 3, 2010, 9:36pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-re-stream-an-unprotected-stream-from-fms-or-a-cdn-such-as-akamai/87/14 "2010-09-03T21:36:30Z")

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> it looks alike for every stream I have to modify the file manually , is it any way to do that automatically ?

What were you referring to?

StreamManager is one way to start pulling a MediaCaster:

[http://community.wowza.com/t/-/82](http://community.wowza.com/t/-/82)

/conf/StartUpStream.xml is another way.

Richard

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