# Multiple Audio streams

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/multiple-audio-streams/37190>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [May 18, 2012, 12:03am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/multiple-audio-streams/37190 "2012-05-18T00:03:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Alexsey\_Kasianenko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Alexsey\_Kasianenko](https://community.wowza.com/u/Alexsey_Kasianenko)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 12:03am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/multiple-audio-streams/37190/1 "2012-05-18T00:03:36Z")

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Hi!

Is it possible to use multiple audio for live streams, not vod ?

Thank you!

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**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:** [May 17, 2012, 10:24pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/multiple-audio-streams/37190/2 "2012-05-17T22:24:15Z")

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With mpeg-ts source you can do this:

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-select-mpeg-ts-stream-by-program-id-and-also-audio-language-by-pid](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-select-mpeg-ts-stream-by-program-id-and-also-audio-language-by-pid)

Richard

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**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:** [May 18, 2012, 1:13pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/multiple-audio-streams/37190/3 "2012-05-18T13:13:38Z")

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Understand it like this: the request starts with the client, then server streams the requested track. The server does not send multiple tracks for the client to sort out.

Richard

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**Author:** ![Randall\_Auriemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@Randall\_Auriemma](https://community.wowza.com/u/Randall_Auriemma)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 10:37pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/multiple-audio-streams/37190/4 "2012-05-17T22:37:13Z")

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Usually you’ll only want to stream one audio track to a client.

Out of curiosity, what use case is there for two audio tracks in one stream? Maybe there is a different solution we can suggest.

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**Author:** ![Randall\_Auriemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@Randall\_Auriemma](https://community.wowza.com/u/Randall_Auriemma)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 10:46pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/multiple-audio-streams/37190/5 "2012-05-17T22:46:00Z")

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You can use the link Richard posted and the client can choose the language when they play the stream.

Does it make sense to send two video streams if the user can only watch one at a time? Doesn’t really make sense to send two audio streams either. You will be paying for the bandwidth for an audio stream the client is not using.

You can set up your flash client to switch to the other stream/language when they press a button.

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**Author:** ![Alexsey\_Kasianenko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Alexsey\_Kasianenko](https://community.wowza.com/u/Alexsey_Kasianenko)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 9:20am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/multiple-audio-streams/37190/6 "2012-05-18T09:20:13Z")

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But, can wowza stream multiple audiotracks in live stream ?

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**Author:** ![Alexsey\_Kasianenko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Alexsey\_Kasianenko](https://community.wowza.com/u/Alexsey_Kasianenko)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 10:41am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/multiple-audio-streams/37190/7 "2012-05-18T10:41:37Z")

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I wanted to stream two languages

And client want to choose which languages they can heare

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**Author:** ![Alexsey\_Kasianenko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Alexsey\_Kasianenko](https://community.wowza.com/u/Alexsey_Kasianenko)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 12:13pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/multiple-audio-streams/37190/8 "2012-05-18T12:13:23Z")

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At that link i can see how to choose audio track in incoming live stream

If my udp://0.0.0.0:10000 contains two audio tracks, wwoza can stream that audio tracks ?
