# video seek over rtsp problem

**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/video-seek-over-rtsp-problem/49729
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [September 20, 2017, 2:16pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/video-seek-over-rtsp-problem/49729 "2017-09-20T14:16:17Z")
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### Author: ![Fikrettin\_Emanet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fikrettin\_Emanet](https://community.wowza.com/u/Fikrettin_Emanet)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2017, 2:16pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/video-seek-over-rtsp-problem/49729/1 "2017-09-20T14:16:17Z")

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I’m playing vod video served by Wowza with rtsp. If I play the stream without seek there is no problem.

After playing wideo longer than 2000 seconds,

If I request setting the position with gst\_element\_seek\_simple (…) to let say 20 seconds, the reported position is set far a way like 1800 secs. Sometimes wowza server sets the position to 20 secs ± offset, then starts to play again 1800 secs.

If I do same seeking process when video has not been played longer than 300 secs there is no problem.

Note: when I play the video with same player from video file there is no problem at all.