# RTSP live streaming **URL:** \ **Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\ **Created:** [January 24, 2009, 12:51pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtsp-live-streaming/541 "2009-01-24T12:51:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/system/32/447_2.png) [@system](https://community.wowza.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 12:51pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtsp-live-streaming/541/1 "2009-01-24T12:51:46Z")
Hi i am a newbie in WMS, i came to know that we can stream live video to the server as rtsp and stream back to the flash players as rtmp… so basically what i am trying to do is similar to video chat example… i am capturing a live video and encoding it with h.264(like say VLC) and this stream is then sent to the WMS… wht i want to know is how do i stream this to the server as rtsp and how can i get it as rtmp from the server… i did the same thing is rtmp…which was in FMS thanks in advance, deepak ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Good](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/charlie_good/32/383_2.png) [@Charlie\_Good](https://community.wowza.com/u/Charlie_Good)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 5:30am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtsp-live-streaming/541/2 "2009-01-24T05:30:40Z")
Take a look at the **Live Encoders** section of the forums. It has a bunch of examples for the different encoder types: [https://www.wowza.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=24](https://www.wowza.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=24) Charlie ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Good](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/charlie_good/32/383_2.png) [@Charlie\_Good](https://community.wowza.com/u/Charlie_Good)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 4:50am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtsp-live-streaming/541/3 "2009-01-31T04:50:24Z")
No, Wirecast is a standalone encoder that runs on both Windows and OSX. Charlie ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Good](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/charlie_good/32/383_2.png) [@Charlie\_Good](https://community.wowza.com/u/Charlie_Good)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 4:20am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtsp-live-streaming/541/4 "2009-02-03T04:20:47Z")
There seems to be additional latency introduced by the Flash player when streaming live H.264. On2 VP6 based encoders do not exhibit this problem. So I would take a look at On2 Flix Live and Digital Rapids encoders that use VP6. If you are still interested in using H.264 based encoders then you can try setting the NetStream.bufferTime to zero. This usually removes this additional latency but can cause playback stuttering issues and/or lip sync issues. Charlie ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Good](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/charlie_good/32/383_2.png) [@Charlie\_Good](https://community.wowza.com/u/Charlie_Good)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 6:21am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtsp-live-streaming/541/5 "2009-02-04T06:21:35Z")
We support all sort of encoders. The list is very, very long. This is a short list of ones I can think of: Wirecast Quicktime Broadcaster Haivision hardware encoders Scopus Optibase Digital Rapids Viewcast Lanner Dicas Ateme FastVDO On2 Flix Live Flash Media Encoder VLC GStreamer If it supports RTMP it should work with Wowza Pro. We also work with most encoders that support RTSP/RTP or MPEG-TS (we only support H.264/AAC codecs). Charlie ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Good](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/charlie_good/32/383_2.png) [@Charlie\_Good](https://community.wowza.com/u/Charlie_Good)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 5:18am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtsp-live-streaming/541/6 "2009-01-27T05:18:12Z")
Please provide the exact, detailed instructions and command lines that you used and the exact and detailed results. Charlie ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Good](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/charlie_good/32/383_2.png) [@Charlie\_Good](https://community.wowza.com/u/Charlie_Good)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 4:59am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtsp-live-streaming/541/7 "2009-01-29T04:59:35Z")
VLC does do RTSP. If you want a push based RTSP encoder then take a look at Quicktime Broadcaster and Wirecast. Charlie ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Good](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/charlie_good/32/383_2.png) [@Charlie\_Good](https://community.wowza.com/u/Charlie_Good)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 4:39am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtsp-live-streaming/541/8 "2009-01-30T04:39:13Z")
VLC does not support RTSP. It only supports RTP. The instructions are here for RTP. Again, there is no RTSP support in VLC: [https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-vlc-as-a-live-stream-encoder-with-wowza-media-server-mpeg-ts](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-vlc-as-a-live-stream-encoder-with-wowza-media-server-mpeg-ts) Also, VLC is not super stable. So it may not be a great choice. Charlie ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Good](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/charlie_good/32/383_2.png) [@Charlie\_Good](https://community.wowza.com/u/Charlie_Good)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 3:44am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtsp-live-streaming/541/9 "2010-05-10T03:44:11Z")
What you are asking doesn’t really make sense. The URL formats for the different players is discussed in the tutorials and User’s Guide. Charlie ---
**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:** [January 29, 2009, 2:32pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtsp-live-streaming/541/10 "2009-01-29T14:32:37Z")
[Wirecast](http://www.varasoftware.com/) Richard ---
**Author:** ![Matthias\_Kutscher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Matthias\_Kutscher](https://community.wowza.com/u/Matthias_Kutscher)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 10:31am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtsp-live-streaming/541/11 "2009-01-29T10:31:02Z")
Check if this file exists after you started VLC: C:/Program Files/Wowza Media Systems/Wowza Media Server Pro 1.6.0/content/vlc.sdp It seems that VLC doesn’t create it (is %WMSCONFIG\_HOME% set?, try maybe with: sdp=file://C:/Program Files/Wowza Media Systems/Wowza Media Server Pro 1.6.0/ content/vlc.sdp ) ---
**Author:** ![deepak\_kumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@deepak\_kumar](https://community.wowza.com/u/deepak_kumar)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 1:43pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtsp-live-streaming/541/12 "2009-01-27T13:43:10Z")
thnk you for the reply charlie …i really appreciate you for your fast response… but i am stuck with RTSP, what i want to know is how to give the rtsp stream to the WMS from my webcam, i am not planning to use any hardware… i just want to send an rtsp stream to server and recieve a rtmp stream…i tried rtplive example but it says NO H.264 found …i am using VLC to encode …i tried both the command line examples but no luck in either case… ---
**Author:** ![deepak\_kumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@deepak\_kumar](https://community.wowza.com/u/deepak_kumar)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 11:27am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtsp-live-streaming/541/13 "2009-01-29T11:27:18Z")
i am following the read for vlc that u mentioned at [https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-vlc-as-a-live-stream-encoder-with-wowza-media-server-mpeg-ts](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-vlc-as-a-live-stream-encoder-with-wowza-media-server-mpeg-ts) i am giving the commandline for vlc as vlc -vvv dshow:// :dshow-vdev=“USB PC Camera-168” :dshow-adev=“SoundMAX HD Audio” :dshow-size="" --sout “#transcode{venc=x264,vcodec=x264,vb=500,scale=1,acodec=mp4a,ab=32,channels=2,samplerate=22100}:duplicate{dst=display}:rtp{dst=127.0.0.1,sdp=file://%WMSCONFIG\_HOME%/content/vlc.sdp}” i tried in both livestreaming and rtpnative clients with server ip as localhost and rtsp://localhost:554 and vlc.sdp…but culdnt get any success…but i fount this error on the server…and i dnt know wht to do about it INFO session connect-pending 127.0.0.1 - INFO session connect 127.0.0.1 - INFO stream create - - INFO server comment - MediaStreamMediaCasterPlay: startPlay INFO server comment - RTPMediaCaster.create INFO server comment - RTPMediaCaster.init INFO server comment - RTPMediaCaster.Reconnector: start INFO server comment - RTPSessionDescriptionDataProviderBasic.getStreamInfo: C:/P rogram Files/Wowza Media Systems/Wowza Media Server Pro 1.6.0/content/vlc.sdp WARN server comment - RTPSessionDescriptionDataProviderBasic.getStreamInfo: SDP file missing: C:/Program Files/Wowza Media Systems/Wowza Media Server Pro 1.6.0/ content/vlc.sdp ---
**Author:** ![deepak\_kumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@deepak\_kumar](https://community.wowza.com/u/deepak_kumar)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 5:57pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtsp-live-streaming/541/14 "2009-01-29T17:57:53Z")
yes…thts the path i gave…its the installation directory…but today started working now for native RTP…but what i am intrested is in RTSP from vlc or any other h.264 encoders that can stream the live video…is it the rtsp://localhost:554 that i need to give in as the stream ? ---
**Author:** ![deepak\_kumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@deepak\_kumar](https://community.wowza.com/u/deepak_kumar)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 7:58pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtsp-live-streaming/541/15 "2009-01-29T19:58:06Z")
but quicktime broadcster is only for mac i think… so what about pc’s? ---
**Author:** ![deepak\_kumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@deepak\_kumar](https://community.wowza.com/u/deepak_kumar)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 11:46am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtsp-live-streaming/541/16 "2009-01-30T11:46:18Z")
hi all thnks for your replies and support… but if any one can explain to me on how to stream to wms using rtsp of vlc plz.? ---
**Author:** ![deepak\_kumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@deepak\_kumar](https://community.wowza.com/u/deepak_kumar)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 9:43am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtsp-live-streaming/541/17 "2009-01-31T09:43:39Z")
thank you charlie for ur comments…i was able to stream live with some 3-4 seconds delay…can u help me with that…i also tried the live-lowlatency, this time there was delay too but it was to the lower side a bit (2-3 sec) ---
**Author:** ![deepak\_kumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@deepak\_kumar](https://community.wowza.com/u/deepak_kumar)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 9:46am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtsp-live-streaming/541/18 "2009-01-31T09:46:25Z")
> VLC does do RTSP. If you want a push based RTSP encoder then take a look at Quicktime Broadcaster and Wirecast. > > Charlie does anyother software support rtsp? ---
**Author:** ![deepak\_kumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@deepak\_kumar](https://community.wowza.com/u/deepak_kumar)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 4:04pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtsp-live-streaming/541/19 "2009-01-31T16:04:50Z")
well i was able to recieve the video with a delay of 10-15 secnds but no audio…with this i cant develop any chat applications but i could stream or broadcst…but wht could be wrong with the audio??? ---
**Author:** ![deepak\_kumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@deepak\_kumar](https://community.wowza.com/u/deepak_kumar)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 4:45pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtsp-live-streaming/541/20 "2009-02-03T16:45:08Z")
thankyou charlie for your support…can u suggest any more live encoders supported by wowza…and also it will be nice if u could suggest me some methods by which i can decrease my delaytime in video thanks in advance Deepak [Next page](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtsp-live-streaming/541.md?page=2)