# I have a question about creating recording files **URL:** \ **Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\ **Tags:** recording\ **Created:** [November 2, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/i-have-a-question-about-creating-recording-files/102782 "2025-11-02T14:58:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cwkang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@cwkang](https://community.wowza.com/u/cwkang)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/i-have-a-question-about-creating-recording-files/102782/1 "2025-11-02T14:58:05Z")
When streaming via RTSP, a single VOD recording file is created. What I want is to send a 30-minute stream via RTSP, creating one 30-minute recording file and six 5-minute split files. In other words, I want to record twice. After configuration, I want one full VOD file and multiple 5-minute (or 30-second) split files to be created per streaming session. Is this possible? ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Kellicker2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/scott_kellicker2/32/1337_2.png) [@Scott\_Kellicker2](https://community.wowza.com/u/Scott_Kellicker2)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/i-have-a-question-about-creating-recording-files/102782/2 "2025-11-03T17:59:34Z")
I believe with the recording methods that an be turned on via configuration you can get one recording per stream. Via the Java API it should be do-able to send a stream to multiple recorders to achieve what you are saying. If you don’t need the smaller recordings right away, it would be pretty straightforward to fire up a tools (ex. ffmpeg) at the longer recording and split it into shorter VODs. ---
**Author:** ![cwkang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@cwkang](https://community.wowza.com/u/cwkang)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2025, 12:36am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/i-have-a-question-about-creating-recording-files/102782/3 "2025-11-04T00:36:05Z")
Thank you for your reply. I’m trying to work on the VOD file during recording, but I can’t process it until the recording finishes. When I stream via RTSP, I want to create two recordings. So I set up two streams: the original and a transcoded one. The original is the full VOD recording. The transcoded one is for 30-second segmented VOD recordings. I’m not sure how to do this. ![1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/wowza1/original/2X/f/fbc8b785bbf53eab015a192dc01ff292e4dd1fde.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Kellicker2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/scott_kellicker2/32/1337_2.png) [@Scott\_Kellicker2](https://community.wowza.com/u/Scott_Kellicker2)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2025, 2:45pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/i-have-a-question-about-creating-recording-files/102782/4 "2025-11-04T14:45:07Z")
Wowza can chime in here, but I believe its one recording per input stream. (At least if you are configuring it– there are definitely ways to do this with custom code) ---
**Author:** ![cwkang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@cwkang](https://community.wowza.com/u/cwkang)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2025, 11:50pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/i-have-a-question-about-creating-recording-files/102782/5 "2025-11-04T23:50:06Z")
Thank you for your reply. I’m looking into ways to do it. ---
**Author:** ![alinah929](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e495f1/32.png) [@alinah929](https://community.wowza.com/u/alinah929)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 10:08am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/i-have-a-question-about-creating-recording-files/102782/6 "2025-11-19T10:08:05Z")
Have you tried video recording tool ?