# Need help with live streaming from a tv capture card! **URL:** \ **Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\ **Created:** [January 30, 2012, 6:37pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/need-help-with-live-streaming-from-a-tv-capture-card/38082 "2012-01-30T18:37:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![David\_Wane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@David\_Wane](https://community.wowza.com/u/David_Wane)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 6:37pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/need-help-with-live-streaming-from-a-tv-capture-card/38082/1 "2012-01-30T18:37:42Z")
Hi, I am really quite new to streaming etc, but have set up the Wowza server and understand what is required. Except for one major problem - I want to take the Unicast stream from the Netstream plugin in DVBviewer and stream it to to a flash based web page. I have been trying now for a couple of weeks and have now decided I really need some help! The stream output from Netstream is on [http://198.168.1.40:8088](http://198.168.1.40:8088) of my local network and I can play it easily in VLC, i just cannot figure out how to get it in to Wowza! Many thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Jason\_Hilton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/jason_hilton/32/437_2.png) [@Jason\_Hilton](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jason_Hilton)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 2:38pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/need-help-with-live-streaming-from-a-tv-capture-card/38082/2 "2012-01-31T14:38:12Z")
Hi Wowza doesn’t take an input http stream other than IceCast and ShoutCast. Take a look at this, [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) This might help you with the input steam into Wowza You could also try transcoding via VLC. Jason ---
**Author:** ![Jason\_Hilton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/jason_hilton/32/437_2.png) [@Jason\_Hilton](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jason_Hilton)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 11:23am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/need-help-with-live-streaming-from-a-tv-capture-card/38082/3 "2012-02-06T11:23:18Z")
Hi The resolution or bitrate may be to high if you lower them this could solve this problem. Jason ---
**Author:** ![David\_Wane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@David\_Wane](https://community.wowza.com/u/David_Wane)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 7:06pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/need-help-with-live-streaming-from-a-tv-capture-card/38082/4 "2012-02-01T19:06:18Z")
Hi, All working now!! with both ffmpeg and vlc - THANKS!! ---
**Author:** ![David\_Wane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@David\_Wane](https://community.wowza.com/u/David_Wane)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 3:44pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/need-help-with-live-streaming-from-a-tv-capture-card/38082/5 "2012-02-05T15:44:39Z")
Hi, Next problem - I want to stream from DVBViewer to our Wii console (which only supports Flash Ver7). This I can now do using the following ffmpeg encoding (only video for now) : “c:\ffmpeg\bin\ffmpeg.exe” -i “[http://192.168.1.40:8088](http://192.168.1.40:8088)” -an -vcodec flv -vb 2000000 -s 720x480 -f flv rtmp://127.0.0.1/live/myStream This streams through wowza server to a web server that uses flowplayer 2.2.4 (the last to give Wii support). Now, from all my windows based machines the video plays perfectly - on the Wii the video is very jerky with a pause every minute or so to buffer. Any ideas?