# incorporating youstream and youtube broadcasts in a wowza application

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/incorporating-youstream-and-youtube-broadcasts-in-a-wowza-application/170>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [March 29, 2016, 4:01am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/incorporating-youstream-and-youtube-broadcasts-in-a-wowza-application/170 "2016-03-29T04:01:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/system/32/447_2.png) [@system](https://community.wowza.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 4:01am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/incorporating-youstream-and-youtube-broadcasts-in-a-wowza-application/170/1 "2016-03-29T04:01:51Z")

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We have customers who for various reasons prefer youtube or youstream (usually because those broadcasters have a better broadcast interface - we use FMLE).

We want to include their iframes alongside wowza broadcasts with a viewer count like our wowza streams have.

At present from our office we send a small 20kbps stream to the server so their channel name appears in the wowza stream list, and wowza starts giving it a viewer count - and the client checks a stream info file to see if it is to play an iFrame over the wowza stream.

Of course the count ignores what the viewer numbers are on uStream, youtube etc.

I would prefer not to have to send a stream from the office every time this happens, but have the wowza server send a tiny stream when requested. It can start a tiny stream when requested with a particular name, and as people connect to it, the count updates as with our wowza streams?

Is this possible? Can we have the wowza server send itself a stream?

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![Paul\_Shields](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/paul_shields/32/390_2.png) [@Paul\_Shields](https://community.wowza.com/u/Paul_Shields)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2016, 12:43pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/incorporating-youstream-and-youtube-broadcasts-in-a-wowza-application/170/2 "2016-05-05T12:43:58Z")

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Hi,

For this to happen automatically or via a trigger I would suspect that you would need to do this programatically, so you may want to ask on the [developer forums](http://community.wowza.com/c/-/10). Outside of the programming sphere it’s certainly feasible to create a stream file that itself contains a link to an active Wowza stream, e.g. rtsp://[wowza-ip]:1935/live/myStream.

Paul