# VLC hangs on playing a live audio stream

**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/vlc-hangs-on-playing-a-live-audio-stream/37491
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [October 24, 2011, 11:32am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/vlc-hangs-on-playing-a-live-audio-stream/37491 "2011-10-24T11:32:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Walter\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Walter\_Pope](https://community.wowza.com/u/Walter_Pope)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2011, 11:32am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/vlc-hangs-on-playing-a-live-audio-stream/37491/1 "2011-10-24T11:32:13Z")

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If I try to play a live audio stream when there are no other players, VLC will hang with 50% cpu utilization. The stream is 24k bit rate, 44100 samples per second. but VLC codec information shows 22050 samples.

The second concurrent connection to wowza works fine.

rstp://ciam.audio.netbroadcasting.tv:1935/ciam-live/test.stream

Please do not leave this stream running, as a running stream destroys the concurrency test.

Wowza Media Server 2 Subscription 2.2.3 build26454

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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: [October 24, 2011, 9:13pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/vlc-hangs-on-playing-a-live-audio-stream/37491/2 "2011-10-24T21:13:27Z")

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Same issue as other post?

[https://www.wowza.com/forums/showthread.php?15464-Iphone-not-connecting-as-first-player&p=78994&highlight=#post78994](https://www.wowza.com/forums/showthread.php?15464-Iphone-not-connecting-as-first-player&p=78994&highlight=#post78994)

Richard

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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: [October 24, 2011, 10:39pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/vlc-hangs-on-playing-a-live-audio-stream/37491/3 "2011-10-24T22:39:11Z")

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I’m not following exactly, but does this help?:

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-configure-vlc-media-player-for-rtsp-rtp-playback-rtsp-rtp-interleaved-and-tuning](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-configure-vlc-media-player-for-rtsp-rtp-playback-rtsp-rtp-interleaved-and-tuning))

Richard

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### Author: ![Walter\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Walter\_Pope](https://community.wowza.com/u/Walter_Pope)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2011, 4:15pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/vlc-hangs-on-playing-a-live-audio-stream/37491/4 "2011-10-24T16:15:14Z")

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The VLC hang will connect to Wowza, and Wowza connects to the source live stream. VCL does not properly negotiate the protocal.

In the Iphone situation Wowza does not try to connect to the source live stream.