# Live Streaming from RaspberryPi using GStreamer - Help please?

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/live-streaming-from-raspberrypi-using-gstreamer-help-please/44045>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [October 1, 2014, 1:32am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-streaming-from-raspberrypi-using-gstreamer-help-please/44045 "2014-10-01T01:32:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Umer\_Khan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/74df32/32.png) [@Umer\_Khan](https://community.wowza.com/u/Umer_Khan)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 1:22pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-streaming-from-raspberrypi-using-gstreamer-help-please/44045/2 "2014-12-28T13:22:07Z")

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> Similar question : [GStreamer + RTSP](http://community.wowza.com/t/-/37868)
> 
> Hi Everybody,
> 
> We are having a RaspberryPi which is connected to two cameras, and is supposed to send the streams to Wowza server.
> 
> Our Wowza server works great with GoCoder iPhone app.
> 
> We have GStreamer on RaspberryPi and are trying to stream using the following commands on an RTMP/RTSP open connection (no authentication)
> 
> ```auto
> gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src device=/dev/video1 ! video/x-h264,width=1920,height=1080,framerate=30/1 ! h264parse ! muxout. pulsesrc device="alsa_input.usb-046d_HD_Pro_Webcam_C920_5A8C986F-02-C920.analog-stereo" ! queue ! audioconvert ! voaacenc ! muxout. flvmux name=muxout streamable=true ! \ rtmpsink location = 'wowz://54.213.46.154:1935/liveStreamCam1/cam1'
> 
> ```
> 
> What we get is the following:
> 
> ```auto
> Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
> Pipeline is live and does not need PREROLL ...
> Setting pipeline to PLAYING ...
> New clock: GstPulseSrcClock
> ERROR: RTMP_ReadPacket, failed to read RTMP packet header
> ERROR: from element /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstRTMPSink:rtmpsink0: Could not open resource for writing.
> Additional debug info:
> gstrtmpsink.c(214): gst_rtmp_sink_render (): /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstRTMPSink:rtmpsink0:
> Could not connect to RTMP stream "wowz://54.213.46.154:1935/liveStreamCam1/cam1" for writing
> Execution ended after 0:00:03.223963639
> Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
> Setting pipeline to READY ...
> Setting pipeline to NULL ...
> Freeing pipeline ...
> 
> ```
> 
> We took a TCP dump and found that the connection is being refused with the message “Permission Denied”
> 
> The verbose messages are following:
> 
> ```auto
> ........level...status..code...NetConnection.Connect.Success..description...Connection succeeded...data.......version..
> 3,5,7,7009.....clientid.A..I".....objectEncoding............
> releaseStream.@...........cam1
> C..........FCPublish.@...........cam1
> C..........createStream.@........
> ...............onStatus.............level...error..code...NetStream.Publish.Denied..description..FRTMP
> Publishing not allowed. Client is not in list of valid 
> encoders...clientid.A..I"......
> ...............onFCPublish.............level...status..code...NetStream.Publish.Start..description...FCPublish
> to stream 
> cam1...clientid.A..I"....................._result.@.........?.......
> ......"........publish.@...........cam1...live
> ...............onStatus.............level...error..code...NetStream.Publish.Denied..description..FRTMP
> Publishing not allowed. Client is not in list of valid 
> encoders...clientid.A..I"......
> C..........FCUnpublish.@...........cam1
> C....."....deleteStream.@.........?.......
> 
> ```
> 
> We tried using rtmp:// instead of wowz:// too! (wowz: certainly doesn’t look a fit here)
> 
> It says “NetStream.Publish.Denied description. FRTMP Publishing not allowed. Client is not in list of valid encoders”
> 
> Are there only certain kind of clients that Wowza will support?
> 
> Now, there’s a tutorial here on how to do it using FFMPEG, but we currently don’t have the liberty of time to set FFMPEG on our Pi.
> 
> Is there something that we are missing here?
> 
> It doesn’t work even when the server is not expecting any authentication.
> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated

Hi Aman,

I would also like to stream my house entrance-area using Raspberry-PI.

Can you share more infos how to setup (which OS and tools to use for Raspberry-PI) this all? I have access to wowza-server.

That would be really great.

Many thanks in advance.

Cheers

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