# RTMP waiting for stream timeout

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/rtmp-waiting-for-stream-timeout/52216>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [October 26, 2018, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtmp-waiting-for-stream-timeout/52216 "2018-10-26T12:21:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Cristian\_Moldovan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Cristian\_Moldovan](https://community.wowza.com/u/Cristian_Moldovan)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2018, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtmp-waiting-for-stream-timeout/52216/1 "2018-10-26T12:21:24Z")

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Hi,

We are creating a recorder for a stream and then at some point (variable duration 5 sec to 5 min) a RTMP stream is published.

Problem is that for the longer intervals (between recorder creation and streaming actually starting) the recorder gets deleted. No error message is added.

How can we increase the recorder close timeout for RTMP streams?

Best regards, Cristi

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**Author:** ![Rose\_Power-Wowza\_Com](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/rose_power-wowza_com/32/431_2.png) [@Rose\_Power-Wowza\_Com](https://community.wowza.com/u/Rose_Power-Wowza_Com)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2018, 7:17pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtmp-waiting-for-stream-timeout/52216/2 "2018-10-26T19:17:10Z")

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Checking for you @Cristian Moldovan…

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**Author:** ![Rose\_Power-Wowza\_Com](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/rose_power-wowza_com/32/431_2.png) [@Rose\_Power-Wowza\_Com](https://community.wowza.com/u/Rose_Power-Wowza_Com)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2018, 10:13pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtmp-waiting-for-stream-timeout/52216/3 "2018-10-28T22:13:34Z")

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The engineers suggested the module from this article as a potential solution @Cristian Moldovan:

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-record-live-streams-wowza-streaming-engine](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-record-live-streams-wowza-streaming-engine)