# RTP - Bad packet

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/rtp-bad-packet/40115>\
**Category:** Hire a Consultant\
**Created:** [March 21, 2013, 2:28pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtp-bad-packet/40115 "2013-03-21T14:28:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![chiranjeevi\_kona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@chiranjeevi\_kona](https://community.wowza.com/u/chiranjeevi_kona)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 2:28pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtp-bad-packet/40115/1 "2013-03-21T14:28:52Z")

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Hi

Iam getting the following error in the log file.

ERROR server comment 2013-03-21 13:10:39 - - - - - 21644.565 - - - - - - - - RTPDePacketizerMPEG4LATM.handleRTPPacket: Bad packet length: 240:20

ERROR server comment 2013-03-21 13:10:39 - - - - - 21644.566 - - - - - - - - RTPDePacketizerMPEG4LATM.handleRTPPacket: Bad packet length: 240:15

ERROR server comment 2013-03-21 13:10:39 - - - - - 21644.58 - - - - - - - - RTPDePacketizerMPEG4LATM.handleRTPPacket: Bad packet length: 240:15

ERROR server comment 2013-03-21 13:10:39 - - - - - 21644.58 - - - - - - - - RTPDePacketizerMPEG4LATM.handleRTPPacket: Bad packet length: 240:15

ERROR server comment 2013-03-21 13:10:39 - - - - - 21644.582 - - - - - - - - RTPDePacketizerMPEG4LATM.handleRTPPacket: Bad packet length: 240:20

At this point of time the CPU load is very high & almost 300-400 java services are running.

Need help in understanding this issue.

-CHiru

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**Author:** ![Lisa\_Wong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/34f0e0/32.png) [@Lisa\_Wong](https://community.wowza.com/u/Lisa_Wong)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2013, 2:17pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtp-bad-packet/40115/2 "2013-04-01T14:17:53Z")

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Where you looking for technical support for this problem? If so, the best place to post for help is on the [Wowza Media Server forums](https://www.wowza.com/forums/forum.php). This is the place to post a job to hire a consultant. You can search for this message and others in the partial list of log WARN and ERROR messages in the article [How to troubleshoot error messages](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-troubleshoot-error-messages). Back packet length can indicate a network connection problem.

-Lisa