# How to save stream to HDFS?

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-save-stream-to-hdfs/50618>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [January 19, 2018, 5:11pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-save-stream-to-hdfs/50618 "2018-01-19T17:11:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Luis\_Molina\_Martinez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecd19e/32.png) [@Luis\_Molina\_Martinez](https://community.wowza.com/u/Luis_Molina_Martinez)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 5:11pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-save-stream-to-hdfs/50618/1 "2018-01-19T17:11:18Z")

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Hi, anybody knows how to save the stream to HDFS? I mean, I want to save the video to hadoop file system.

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**Author:** ![Jermaine\_Hemby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/82dd89/32.png) [@Jermaine\_Hemby](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jermaine_Hemby)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 4:50pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-save-stream-to-hdfs/50618/2 "2018-01-21T16:50:23Z")

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Hello,

Thanks for contacting the Wowza Community

If that storage is a HTTP source, you can use Media Cache. Here is some documentation on [Media Cache](https://www.wowza.com/docs/scaling-with-wowza-media-cache)

regards,  
Jermaine