# RTMP starttime/duration JW Player

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/rtmp-starttime-duration-jw-player/36942>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [October 24, 2014, 5:59pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtmp-starttime-duration-jw-player/36942 "2014-10-24T17:59:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Andrew\_Claasen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Andrew\_Claasen](https://community.wowza.com/u/Andrew_Claasen)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 5:59pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtmp-starttime-duration-jw-player/36942/1 "2014-10-24T17:59:12Z")

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Hi, I’m looking for a way to set starttime and possibly duration if I can with rtmp via jwplayer. Previously we were using a custom flash player and just used netsteam.connect(""); netsream.play("","") ; and that worked great. I can’t seem to find a way to do that with jwplayer though…seems like this should be very simple no? I even tried to do it with an smil file like this: . Shouldn’t this just be a flashvar? this is driving me nuts…

I can do just what I need with http using this: [https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-specify-a-play-start-time-and-duration-for-http-streaming](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-specify-a-play-start-time-and-duration-for-http-streaming) Is there a way I can do that with RTMP?

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**Author:** ![Andrew\_Claasen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Andrew\_Claasen](https://community.wowza.com/u/Andrew_Claasen)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2014, 9:21am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtmp-starttime-duration-jw-player/36942/2 "2014-10-27T09:21:06Z")

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anyone? this should be super easy…it was with the custom flash player I wrote myself…jwplayer should for sure do this easily…

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**Author:** ![Andrew\_Claasen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Andrew\_Claasen](https://community.wowza.com/u/Andrew_Claasen)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2014, 3:01pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtmp-starttime-duration-jw-player/36942/3 "2014-10-27T15:01:45Z")

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I contacted jw player support and they told me to refer to wowza support about “Pseudo Streaming”. I have the startparam for jwplayer set to “start”. is that the correct startparam? do we have to change something on our wowza instance to make this work?

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**Author:** ![Andrew\_Claasen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Andrew\_Claasen](https://community.wowza.com/u/Andrew_Claasen)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 7:29am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtmp-starttime-duration-jw-player/36942/4 "2014-10-28T07:29:02Z")

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i’ll see if this helps…it seems like a major oversight that this was not included in jwplayer…

thanks for the response.

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**Author:** ![Matt\_Young](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/matt_young/32/389_2.png) [@Matt\_Young](https://community.wowza.com/u/Matt_Young)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 3:16am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtmp-starttime-duration-jw-player/36942/5 "2014-10-28T03:16:16Z")

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You could construct a module that could handle start/duration parameters via the play event handler. You might checkout the [following post](http://community.wowza.com/t/-/39869) as a good starting point.