# Playback live stream (RTMP) very slow

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/playback-live-stream-rtmp-very-slow/40538>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [May 31, 2013, 6:06am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/playback-live-stream-rtmp-very-slow/40538 "2013-05-31T06:06:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Chen\_Zhi\_jun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@Chen\_Zhi\_jun](https://community.wowza.com/u/Chen_Zhi_jun)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 6:06am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/playback-live-stream-rtmp-very-slow/40538/1 "2013-05-31T06:06:40Z")

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Hello, I have an application for live video, live stream from the encoder(rstp://192.168.1.168/ch01),When Publishing the stream，

User Adobe Flash Player at [install-dir]/examples/LiveVideoStreaming/FlashRTMPPlayer/player.html,playback this RTMP stream(Server: rtmp://[wowza-ip-address]/live,Stream: rtmp.stream) ,Very slow, the screen for a long time still, the effect is not ideal, when using VLC player rtsp 😕 / [wowza-ip-address]: 1935/live/camera.stream when results were pretty good! Why this is so, can you tell me how to solve this question it? Thank you very much!

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**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:** [May 31, 2013, 9:12am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/playback-live-stream-rtmp-very-slow/40538/2 "2013-05-31T09:12:49Z")

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Hi, can you tell us what your settings are in your encoder?

What encoder are you using?

Salvadore

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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:** [June 6, 2013, 1:55am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/playback-live-stream-rtmp-very-slow/40538/3 "2013-06-06T01:55:33Z")

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It may be a low FPS, because Flash RTMP client needs about 60 frames before it starts playback. Take a look at this article:

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-set-up-low-latency-applications-in-wowza-streaming-engine-for-rtmp-streaming](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-set-up-low-latency-applications-in-wowza-streaming-engine-for-rtmp-streaming)

Richard

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**Author:** ![Chen\_Zhi\_jun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@Chen\_Zhi\_jun](https://community.wowza.com/u/Chen_Zhi_jun)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 4:53pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/playback-live-stream-rtmp-very-slow/40538/4 "2013-05-31T16:53:03Z")

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> Hi, can you tell us what your settings are in your encoder?
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> What encoder are you using?
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> Salvadore

thanks for you reply.

I use the encoder is an H.264 encoder, the HD-SDI signal into rtsp streaming, stream now is 2M bps, VLS Playback address is: rstp 😕 / [encoder-ip] / ch01