# Is it possible to re-stream from mms://\*\*\*.\*\*\*.\*\*/live connection **URL:** \ **Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\ **Created:** [February 16, 2011, 10:18pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/is-it-possible-to-re-stream-from-mms-live-connection/34683 "2011-02-16T22:18:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Abdul\_al](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8edcca/32.png) [@Abdul\_al](https://community.wowza.com/u/Abdul_al)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 10:18pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/is-it-possible-to-re-stream-from-mms-live-connection/34683/1 "2011-02-16T22:18:37Z")
Dears… I’m wondring if I’m able to restream a live video streaming (mms://_ **.** _.\*\*/live) from an external provider, via my wowza server for live flash streaming. Thanks ---
**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:** [February 16, 2011, 7:32pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/is-it-possible-to-re-stream-from-mms-live-connection/34683/2 "2011-02-16T19:32:38Z")
Not directly, but you can use VLC or FFMPEG in between. Take a look at the examples for transcoding an rtsp stream in the following examples. Replace the rtsp url with mms url. I’ve tried it and it works great: [https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-ffmpeg-with-wowza-media-server-mpeg-ts](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-ffmpeg-with-wowza-media-server-mpeg-ts)) [https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-vlc-as-a-live-stream-encoder-with-wowza-media-server-mpeg-ts](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-vlc-as-a-live-stream-encoder-with-wowza-media-server-mpeg-ts)) Richard ---
**Author:** ![Will\_Hetherington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/db5fbb/32.png) [@Will\_Hetherington](https://community.wowza.com/u/Will_Hetherington)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2011, 11:31am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/is-it-possible-to-re-stream-from-mms-live-connection/34683/3 "2011-02-16T11:31:32Z")
As far as I am aware, this is not possible - mms:// feeds are served by Windows Media Server - which generally uses WMV 9.2 codec, which is not supported. ---
**Author:** ![Roger\_Littin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d26b3c/32.png) [@Roger\_Littin](https://community.wowza.com/u/Roger_Littin)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 5:38am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/is-it-possible-to-re-stream-from-mms-live-connection/34683/4 "2011-02-18T05:38:57Z")
I think you are going to have to ask on the ffmpeg forums. A quick google on ffmpeg mms suggests that it is not easy. Once you can ingest the mms stream though, the output part of the ffmpeg command that Richard suggests should work fine. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/is-it-possible-to-re-stream-from-mms-live-connection/34683/5 "2011-02-17T20:52:59Z")
The ffmpeg command would be: ```auto ffmpeg -i "mms://193.164.132.195:2124/aguizzardi" -vcodec libx264 -vpre default -vpre baseline -g 60 -vb 150000 -strict experimental -acodec aac -ab 96000 -ar 48000 -ac 2 -vbsf h264_mp4toannexb -f mpegts udp://127.0.0.1:10000?pkt_size=1316 ``` We don’t support directly, but follow the setup in that article, then try the command above, then the follow this article to playback the transcoded stream: [https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-publish-and-play-a-live-stream-mpeg-ts-based-encoder](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-publish-and-play-a-live-stream-mpeg-ts-based-encoder) Richard ---
**Author:** ![javier\_pepe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@javier\_pepe](https://community.wowza.com/u/javier_pepe)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 10:10pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/is-it-possible-to-re-stream-from-mms-live-connection/34683/6 "2011-12-02T22:10:41Z")
Hope this helps someone, to transcode mms streams, use mmsh:// or mmst:// as input rather than mms:// (check: [http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html#mmst](http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html#mmst)) so change this ```auto ffmpeg -i [COLOR="#FF0000"]mms:[/COLOR]//193.164.132.195:2124/aguizzardi -vcodec libx264 -vpre default -vpre baseline -g 60 -vb 150000 -strict experimental -acodec aac -ab 96000 -ar 48000 -ac 2 -vbsf h264_mp4toannexb -f mpegts udp://127.0.0.1:10000?pkt_size=1316 ``` Into this ```auto ffmpeg -i [COLOR="#2F4F4F"]mmsh:[/COLOR]//193.164.132.195:2124/aguizzardi -vcodec libx264 -vpre default -vpre baseline -g 60 -vb 150000 -strict experimental -acodec aac -ab 96000 -ar 48000 -ac 2 -vbsf h264_mp4toannexb -f mpegts udp://127.0.0.1:10000?pkt_size=1316 ``` and it will work just fine. Regards ---
**Author:** ![Abdul\_al](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8edcca/32.png) [@Abdul\_al](https://community.wowza.com/u/Abdul_al)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2011, 11:34pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/is-it-possible-to-re-stream-from-mms-live-connection/34683/7 "2011-02-17T23:34:46Z")
Thank you rrlamham I read these threads before, I’m facing difficulty reading the stream via VLC would you please help me to re-stream something similar to this: mms://193.164.132.195:2124/aguizzardi Providing me the code to re-stream it is highly appreciated cause I reach dead end 🙂 Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Bilal\_Ahmad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9a140/32.png) [@Bilal\_Ahmad](https://community.wowza.com/u/Bilal_Ahmad)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2011, 9:51pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/is-it-possible-to-re-stream-from-mms-live-connection/34683/8 "2011-02-17T21:51:18Z")
> The ffmpeg command would be: > > ```auto > ffmpeg -i "mms://193.164.132.195:2124/aguizzardi" -vcodec libx264 -vpre default -vpre baseline -g 60 -vb 150000 -strict experimental -acodec aac -ab 96000 -ar 48000 -ac 2 -vbsf h264_mp4toannexb -f mpegts udp://127.0.0.1:10000?pkt_size=1316 > > ``` > > We don’t support directly, but follow the setup in that article, then try the command above, then the follow this article to playback the transcoded stream: > > [https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-publish-and-play-a-live-stream-mpeg-ts-based-encoder](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-publish-and-play-a-live-stream-mpeg-ts-based-encoder) > > Richard That command didn’t work for me. Here’s the output I get. ```auto C:\ffmpeg\bin>ffmpeg -i "mms://193.164.132.195:2124/aguizzardi" -vcodec libx264 -vpre default -vpre baseline -g 60 -vb 150000 -strict experimental -acodec aac -ab 96000 -ar 48000 -ac 2 -vbsf h264_mp4toannexb -f mpegts udp://127.0.0.1:10000?pkt_size=1316 FFmpeg version SVN-r26400, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers built on Jan 18 2011 04:07:05 with gcc 4.4.2 configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-libgsm --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libspeex --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libopencore_amrwb --enable-libopencore_amrnb --enable-libvpx --disable-decoder=libvpx --arch=x86 --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-libxvid --enable-libx264 --enable-librtmp --extra-libs='-lrtmp -lpolarssl -lws2_32 -lwinmm' --target-os=mingw32 --enable-avisynth --enable-w32threads --cross-prefix=i686-mingw32- --cc='ccache i686-mingw32-gcc' --enable-memalign-hack libavutil 50.36. 0 / 50.36. 0 libavcore 0.16. 1 / 0.16. 1 libavcodec 52.108. 0 / 52.108. 0 libavformat 52.93. 0 / 52.93. 0 libavdevice 52. 2. 3 / 52. 2. 3 libavfilter 1.74. 0 / 1.74. 0 libswscale 0.12. 0 / 0.12. 0 mms://193.164.132.195:2124/aguizzardi: No such file or directory ``` I understand this is more of an ffmpeg question, but if any hint could be provided, it would be very helpful.