# PushPublish to Akamai losing video, becoming an audio-only stream
**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/pushpublish-to-akamai-losing-video-becoming-an-audio-only-stream/37303
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [September 16, 2014, 3:09pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/pushpublish-to-akamai-losing-video-becoming-an-audio-only-stream/37303 "2014-09-16T15:09:17Z")
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### Author:  [@Matt\_Youngblut](https://community.wowza.com/u/Matt_Youngblut)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2014, 3:09pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/pushpublish-to-akamai-losing-video-becoming-an-audio-only-stream/37303/1 "2014-09-16T15:09:17Z")
Applies to Wowza Versions: 4.0.4, 4.1
I’m push-publishing (RTMP) the transcodes of a single source stream to two different Akamai endpoints which are then converted to HDS/HLS via Akamai’s Universal Streaming.
At some point (usually after a couple of days), one of the two Akamai endpoints switches to an audio-only stream. I can still watch the RTMP stream coming out of Wowza, and it contains both audio and video, but the output from Akamai is audio-only. Because I’m pushing the same stream to two different endpoints, and one still works properly, I’m fairly confident it isn’t a problem with the stream I’m generating in Wowza. That said, when I restart Wowza, the problematic stream starts working (i.e. both audio and video) again in Akamai.
I don’t really have any visibility into the Akamai endpoint, so I don’t have a lot to debug from that end. The Wowza logs show nothing abnormal.
Has anybody run into the situation where streams getting pushed to Akamai suddenly lose their video component?
P.S. I know that Wowza allows the push of HLS and HDS directly to Akamai; unfortunately, it isn’t an option for me to push those two formats.
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### Author:  [@Matt\_Youngblut](https://community.wowza.com/u/Matt_Youngblut)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2014, 3:39pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/pushpublish-to-akamai-losing-video-becoming-an-audio-only-stream/37303/2 "2014-09-16T15:39:37Z")
I’ve just been told my somebody at Akamai that my RTMP stream was not publishing metadata related to the video.
This seems like it shouldn’t be possible since I am using the same stream to push to both endpoints (and one kept working). The only thought I have is that it is possible that Wowza is creating multiple copies of the stream for pushing to Akamai. That said, I don’t know why video metadata would be dropped.
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### Author:  [@Jason\_Hilton](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jason_Hilton)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2014, 11:13am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/pushpublish-to-akamai-losing-video-becoming-an-audio-only-stream/37303/3 "2014-09-19T11:13:30Z")
Hi,
This will now be handled in the ticket that’s been created (103718).
Regards,
Jason