# VLC RTSP client

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/vlc-rtsp-client/35198>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [January 4, 2012, 6:27pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/vlc-rtsp-client/35198 "2012-01-04T18:27:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Mauro\_Gattari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@Mauro\_Gattari](https://community.wowza.com/u/Mauro_Gattari)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 6:27pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/vlc-rtsp-client/35198/1 "2012-01-04T18:27:13Z")

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Hi,

I’m publishing an RTMP stream to a wowza media server.

Playback works fine with flash and android clients.

However, if I try to play the RTSP stream through VLC, audio and video jitter a lot, especially at the beginning.

I’ve tried to tweaks VLC settings but without success.

Are there wowza settings that can help?

Thanks for help!

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**Author:** ![Randall\_Auriemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@Randall\_Auriemma](https://community.wowza.com/u/Randall_Auriemma)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 5:40pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/vlc-rtsp-client/35198/2 "2012-01-04T17:40:47Z")

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Hi Maurok,

It should work. You’ll have to provide more information to narrow down the problem. e.g. describe your setup, encoding, software versions, URLs, etc…

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**Author:** ![Mauro\_Gattari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@Mauro\_Gattari](https://community.wowza.com/u/Mauro_Gattari)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 9:27am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/vlc-rtsp-client/35198/3 "2012-01-05T09:27:57Z")

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Thanks Randall,

I’m using the basic wowza 3 setup for a live stream.

For encodiing I’m using FMLE 3.2:

video: H.264 25fps 700kbps

audio: HE-AAC stereo 64Kbps

I’ll provide you with the rtsp url via private message.

Thanks for your help

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**Author:** ![Mauro\_Gattari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@Mauro\_Gattari](https://community.wowza.com/u/Mauro_Gattari)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 10:35am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/vlc-rtsp-client/35198/4 "2012-01-06T10:35:37Z")

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It’s not working with your settings either ☹

I forgot to mention that wowza is configured to render a separate audio-only stream, clearly this shouldn’t be te problem.

Anyway, I’m sending everything to the support.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Randall\_Auriemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@Randall\_Auriemma](https://community.wowza.com/u/Randall_Auriemma)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 11:53am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/vlc-rtsp-client/35198/5 "2012-01-05T11:53:43Z")

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Thanks. I see the same thing you are. RTMP looks great in flash with your stream. But RTSP, is choppy/jitters/skips and even seems to speed up at certain points. Android seemed to play better, but it stopped playing the stream a few times, and there were slight infrequent hiccups.

I am testing on FMLE 3.2 and it looks fine on my localhost with the following settings:

H.264 Baseline Profile, Level 3.0, Keyframe every 2 seconds.

AAC, Mono, 44.1khz, 128kbps

Output Size: 640x480

It looks fine. I tried it with your settings (AAC-HE), and your res: 768/432. And it played fine, though the quality was not as good, I think from resizing the resolution.

One thing I noticed is that you have 4 streams when viewed in VLC Tools-\>Codec Information. Whereas in my tests it only ever reports 2 streams. (0 and 1)

Try using my settings in FMLE. If you’re not able to get it sorted out, send an email to support@wowza.com with your stream URL, your conf and logs zipped up, and a link to this thread.