# Publish FLV stream to RTMP Wowza **URL:** \ **Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\ **Created:** [April 24, 2012, 1:52pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/publish-flv-stream-to-rtmp-wowza/38557 "2012-04-24T13:52:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ibrahim\_Tachijian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Ibrahim\_Tachijian](https://community.wowza.com/u/Ibrahim_Tachijian)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 1:52pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/publish-flv-stream-to-rtmp-wowza/38557/1 "2012-04-24T13:52:51Z")
Hey! I am publishing a RTMP stream from avconv using the following command; avconv -i [http://10.0.0.101:2004/bysid/10](http://10.0.0.101:2004/bysid/10) -acodec libfaac -acodec libfaac -b:a 96k -vcodec libx264 -filter:v yadif -b:v 900k -preset superfast -threads 4 -bt 2500 -qcomp 0.7 -f flv **rtmp://127.0.0.1/live/myStream** This makes a RTMP stream available at rtmp://127.0.0.1/live/myStream . RTMPDUMP works on that address correctly. I can play the stream in VLC using the following link; [http://127.0.0.1:1935/live/myStream/playlist.m3u8](http://127.0.0.1:1935/live/myStream/playlist.m3u8) All of this is working good and Im really close to purchase wowza, but there is 1 thing missing. I wish to be able to “wget” the actual flv as well, so I need to know which URL holds the actual stream, it should be something like [http://127.0.0.1:someport/myStream.flv](http://127.0.0.1:someport/myStream.flv) (i.e. I do NOT want a playlist file, I want to provide the ACTUAL file over http), how do I do this? I fully understand the possibility to “steal” streams if I do this, but this is how I want it to behave. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2012, 1:04pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/publish-flv-stream-to-rtmp-wowza/38557/2 "2012-04-24T13:04:28Z")
wget will not work with Wowza. You have to use a web server to do that. Richard ---
**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:** [April 24, 2012, 1:54pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/publish-flv-stream-to-rtmp-wowza/38557/3 "2012-04-24T13:54:27Z")
That would essentially be progressive download, which is not supported in Wowza. A work-around is to install a web server on the same machine and map the Wowza content location to a web folder. Richard ---
**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:** [April 24, 2012, 1:11pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/publish-flv-stream-to-rtmp-wowza/38557/4 "2012-04-24T13:11:13Z")
You can record the streams on the Wowza server using one of the \*record StreamTypes mentioned in the user guide. Or using the LiveStreamRecord addon module. Then you can make these recordings available on your web server. You can also use a third party utility such as ffmpeg or VLC to record live streams to a file. ---
**Author:** ![Ibrahim\_Tachijian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Ibrahim\_Tachijian](https://community.wowza.com/u/Ibrahim_Tachijian)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 2:10pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/publish-flv-stream-to-rtmp-wowza/38557/5 "2012-04-24T14:10:26Z")
> wget will not work with Wowza. You have to use a web server to do that. > > Richard It doesnt need to support wget specifically, but I wish to know the _exact_ url to where the stream is located so that I can open it in vlc like; [http://wowza](http://wowza): port/myStream.flv without the playlist file etc ---
**Author:** ![Ibrahim\_Tachijian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Ibrahim\_Tachijian](https://community.wowza.com/u/Ibrahim_Tachijian)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 7:50pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/publish-flv-stream-to-rtmp-wowza/38557/6 "2012-04-24T19:50:41Z")
Yes, that option would be viable, but how does one “map the content”, when the content are not actual files, but published live streams?