# Using JW Player 5.x with Wowza Server
**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/using-jw-player-5-x-with-wowza-server/246
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [January 25, 2010, 8:09pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/using-jw-player-5-x-with-wowza-server/246 "2010-01-25T20:09:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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Add the call:
```auto
connectLivePlayer(null);
```
To the bottom of the ActionScript.
Of course you will need to pre-set the RTMP URL and stream name and hide the controls.
Charlie
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Hi Richard,
I’m having trouble playing a live stream with JWP5. The first few frames of video come up along with a tenth of a second of audio but then it freezes and shows the spinning icon. The Wowza server version is 1.7.2. I tried Wirecast and Adobe FME with the same results. Here’s the code used:
```auto
```
Thanks for the tutorial,
Bill
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Try entering this url into the same browser window. What do you get?
```auto
http://192.168.1.99:1935
```
When you try to play the stream with JW Player, do you see any log messages in the Wowza logs?
Charlie
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Then it could be step #5 in the instructions. If the security isn’t setup properly then it will not attempt to connect. Try either following those steps or host the player at a web server and access it using a URL.
Charlie
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I went back and tried this myself. I could not get JW Player 5 to work either. I finally reverted to JW Player 4.6 from here:
[http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-player-4-for-flash](http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-player-4-for-flash)
My HTML code looks like this:
```auto
```
You will need to update the RTMP URLs in two places.
Charlie
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Try with “provider” Flashvar:
```auto
Flashvars="bufferlength=2&streamer=rtmp://{server-ip}/simplevideostreaming&file=mp4:Extremists.m4v&provider=rtmp"
```
Also, try without the mp4: prefix. (however you probably do need this with m4v extension, but try without)
```auto
Flashvars="bufferlength=2&streamer=rtmp://{server-ip}/simplevideostreaming&file=Extremists.m4v&provider=rtmp"
```
Client-side playlist in JW Player are done with xml. See the JW tutorials, there are a lot of options, but the main thing you do is change the “file” flashvar to point to an xml playlist.
&file=playlist.xml
Richard
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The player should be on a web server. Or you can run it from file explorer on your computer.
I suggest to put JW player aside for a minute, and get this working using the SimpleVideoStreaming example player, which is located here:
[wowza-install-dir]/examples/SimpleVideoStreaming/client/
All the files in this folder should be run from a web server, or just directly from file explorer on your computer.
In Wowza, for this example, all you need is an empty folder here:
[wowza-install-dir]/applications/SimpleVideoStreaming
Richard
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It’s not going to be a relative link or http url (unless you are doing progressive download) even if on the same machine.
I’m not that familiar with xspf format, but here is an RSS playlist:
```auto
rtmp://localhost/vod
```
“somevideo.mp4” has to be located where /conf/vod/Application.xml /StorageDir points to
Richard
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To use the jwplayer:streamer you have to include the namespace in the header:
> xmlns:jwplayer="[http://developer.longtailvideo.com/trac/wiki/FlashFormats](http://developer.longtailvideo.com/trac/wiki/FlashFormats)
To display the playlist, you have to include “playlist” flashvar “&playlist=right” (or bottom or over), and “playlistsize” “&playlistsize=200”, and you have to make the player big enough by increasing the width (or height if playlist=bottom).
So to display a playlist that is 200 wide, increase the width of the player by 200:
> \