# Live MPEG-DASH is broken? **URL:** \ **Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\ **Created:** [June 4, 2015, 10:15am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-mpeg-dash-is-broken/36979 "2015-06-04T10:15:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ben\_Davenport](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8edcca/32.png) [@Ben\_Davenport](https://community.wowza.com/u/Ben_Davenport)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 10:15am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-mpeg-dash-is-broken/36979/1 "2015-06-04T10:15:18Z")
😕 Hey all! Hope everyone is doing well! I created another forum post around mpeg-dash behavior a few days ago, but it’s no longer relevant as live playback only seems to work one player we were testing with ([http://www.dash-player.com](http://www.dash-player.com)) but it’s spotty at best. We can’t get live dash playback to work with ANY OTHER PLAYER. Seeing as this isn’t widely reported, it’s safe to assume that it’s not an issue with Wowza, but perhaps something we’re doing wrong on our end? - VOD playback works perfectly fine - RTMP/HDS/HLS playback works as well - Live MPEG-DASH streams never playback - Tried multiple different encoders, with similar results - Modifying/adding props for dash in the app config didn’t help, so we’re testing with default parameters - Video is h264, audio is AAC ---
**Author:** ![sal\_jefferson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sal\_jefferson](https://community.wowza.com/u/sal_jefferson)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2015, 6:36am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-mpeg-dash-is-broken/36979/2 "2015-06-08T06:36:59Z")
I would have to suggest opening a support ticket so the team can take a closer look. Please follow this guide when opening a ticket, and send information to support@wowza.com [How to create a compressed zip file in Windows, OS X, and Linux](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-create-a-compressed-zip-file-in-windows-os-x-and-linux) Salvadore ---
**Author:** ![Daren\_Johnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@Daren\_Johnson](https://community.wowza.com/u/Daren_Johnson)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2015, 8:08pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-mpeg-dash-is-broken/36979/3 "2015-06-28T20:08:29Z")
Hi, One suggestion is the use of Google’s Dash player implementation, [Shaka Player,](https://github.com/google/shaka-player) We’ve had relatively good results in our testing with it so far. Daren ---
**Author:** ![Daren\_Johnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@Daren\_Johnson](https://community.wowza.com/u/Daren_Johnson)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2015, 11:09pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-mpeg-dash-is-broken/36979/4 "2015-08-11T23:09:31Z")
Hi, Is the issue appear to be player dependent? Have you tried the [Shaka player](https://github.com/google/shaka-player) as described above? Length of playlist shouldn’t be an issue. What can be an issue is if the files within the playlist are of different encoding. This can cause problems between transitions where playback may not be smooth, or possibly might not work at all when moving to the next file. Daren ---
**Author:** ![Ben\_Davenport](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8edcca/32.png) [@Ben\_Davenport](https://community.wowza.com/u/Ben_Davenport)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2015, 8:42am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-mpeg-dash-is-broken/36979/5 "2015-06-08T08:42:10Z")
hey Salvadore, I’ll follow the instructions and send everything over. I also sent a few emails to support (we’re also paying premium support members) but have yet to receive a response. They were sent last week. I’ll shoot this over to support though, Salvadore. Thanks and appreciate the follow up! ---
**Author:** ![David\_Martinez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/77aa72/32.png) [@David\_Martinez](https://community.wowza.com/u/David_Martinez)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 11:29am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-mpeg-dash-is-broken/36979/6 "2015-06-26T11:29:17Z")
> Ben, > > Just a confirmation that this issue is now being handled via support request #130617. If a member of the community wants to add to the post, please do so. Look for a response from Support via email. > > Regards, > > Mac Same behaviour here. Doesn’t work with CENC+Widevine either Regards ---
**Author:** ![Mac\_Hill](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/mac_hill/32/434_2.png) [@Mac\_Hill](https://community.wowza.com/u/Mac_Hill)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2015, 9:47am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-mpeg-dash-is-broken/36979/7 "2015-06-08T09:47:28Z")
Ben, Just a confirmation that this issue is now being handled via support request #130617. If a member of the community wants to add to the post, please do so. Look for a response from Support via email. Regards, Mac ---
**Author:** ![michael\_cupei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58956e/32.png) [@michael\_cupei](https://community.wowza.com/u/michael_cupei)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2015, 6:53am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-mpeg-dash-is-broken/36979/8 "2015-08-11T06:53:14Z")
> Ben, > > Just a confirmation that this issue is now being handled via support request #130617. If a member of the community wants to add to the post, please do so. Look for a response from Support via email. > > Regards, > > Mac Jup. Same issue. MPEG DASH playback for the live stream published with ServerListenerStreamPublisher doesnt start. however on application restart - one client is able to connect and playback. VOD works. i have a long smil file with many playlist(s) - might that be a problem ? mfg