# Starting and stoping live streams programmatically

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/starting-and-stoping-live-streams-programmatically/36872>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Tags:** server-administration\
**Created:** [December 16, 2011, 1:00pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/starting-and-stoping-live-streams-programmatically/36872 "2011-12-16T13:00:42Z")\
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**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:** [December 17, 2011, 1:09pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/starting-and-stoping-live-streams-programmatically/36872/5 "2011-12-17T13:09:39Z")

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Also, before StreamManager was built-in to Wowza 2 it was an Addon that included source code, which will work in Wowza 3:

> [@MediaCasterStreamManager controls start/stop/record of RTP, MPEG-TS and SHOUTcast](http://community.wowza.com/t/-/54):
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> This package provides a Flash tool to interface with the MediaCasterStreamManager API. This to tool is used to start and stop the publishing of non-pushed based encoder streams such as Native RTP, MPEG-TS and SHOUTcast. It provides greater control over the publishing and recording process when using these encoder technologies. This tool is designed to work with the live, live-lowlatency and liverepeater-origin stream types rather than the MediaCaster stream types (rtp-live[-\*] and shoutcast[-\*])…

Richard

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