# Start recording - "Start is not allowed!"

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/start-recording-start-is-not-allowed/55537>\
**Category:** Wowza Video (Formerly Streaming Cloud)\
**Tags:** recording\
**Created:** [July 11, 2020, 12:51pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/start-recording-start-is-not-allowed/55537 "2020-07-11T12:51:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![Shimpei\_Okamura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Shimpei\_Okamura](https://community.wowza.com/u/Shimpei_Okamura)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2020, 12:51pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/start-recording-start-is-not-allowed/55537/1 "2020-07-11T12:51:44Z")

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After I started a transcoder, I tried to start recording via

```auto
https://api.cloud.wowza.com/api/v1.5/transcoders/{id}/start_recording

```

but response was

```auto
{
  "meta": {
    "status": 422,
    "code": "ERR-422-InvalidStateChange",
    "title": "Invalid State Change Error",
    "message": "The request couldn't be processed. Start is not allowed!",
    "description": ""
  },
  "request_id": "e9a083ee8d056a12c4ae37b06c52fcde",
  "request_timestamp": "2020-07-10T10:54:48.017Z"
}

```

I tried with both _transcoder\_type_: passthrough | transcoded but no luck…

Also, createTranscoder api has _recording: boolean_ field, but documentation says

recording

boolean

This parameter is sunset and no longer available.

and it seems simply ignored (even if I specified _recording: true_, no recordings are started when I started the transcoder)

I confirmed that no recording is running via

```auto
[https://api.cloud.wowza.com/api/v1.5/transcoders/{id}/recordings](https://api.cloud.wowza.com/api/v1.5/transcoders/%7bid%7d/recordings)

```

Can someone help me to start recording?

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**Author:** ![Shimpei\_Okamura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Shimpei\_Okamura](https://community.wowza.com/u/Shimpei_Okamura)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2020, 6:20pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/start-recording-start-is-not-allowed/55537/2 "2020-07-11T18:20:56Z")

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Self solved, I just need to specify

```auto
properties: [
  {
    "section": "recording",
    "key": "mp4",
    "value": true
  }
]

```

on creating transcoder, then no need to manually start.

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**Author:** ![Shimpei\_Okamura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Shimpei\_Okamura](https://community.wowza.com/u/Shimpei_Okamura)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2020, 6:32pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/start-recording-start-is-not-allowed/55537/3 "2020-07-11T18:32:07Z")

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Also, recording will be created after the transcoder stops. So don’t worry if you can’t find any recordings while transcoder is running.

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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:** [July 13, 2020, 2:07pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/start-recording-start-is-not-allowed/55537/4 "2020-07-13T14:07:40Z")

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Thanks for going back in and sharing the solution with the community.