# Were to define Mpeg Dash Manifest Property "suggestedPresentationDelay"
**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/were-to-define-mpeg-dash-manifest-property-suggestedpresentationdelay/48508
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Tags:** transcoder
**Created:** [April 11, 2017, 9:43am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/were-to-define-mpeg-dash-manifest-property-suggestedpresentationdelay/48508 "2017-04-11T09:43:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Marcus\_Forchner](https://community.wowza.com/u/Marcus_Forchner)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2017, 9:43am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/were-to-define-mpeg-dash-manifest-property-suggestedpresentationdelay/48508/1 "2017-04-11T09:43:33Z")
Hi, we are using Wowza Streaming Engine for live streaming / transcoding with Mpeg Dash. We want to change the "suggestedPresentationDelay"property of the manifest file, but there is no documentation available.
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### Author:  [@Marcus\_Forchner](https://community.wowza.com/u/Marcus_Forchner)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2017, 10:13am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/were-to-define-mpeg-dash-manifest-property-suggestedpresentationdelay/48508/2 "2017-04-12T10:13:08Z")
Update from the Wowza Support feedback:
_This is not currently possible with the Wowza Streaming Engine software but there is currently a feature request in our backlog_
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### Author:  [@Marcus\_Forchner](https://community.wowza.com/u/Marcus_Forchner)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2018, 2:18pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/were-to-define-mpeg-dash-manifest-property-suggestedpresentationdelay/48508/3 "2018-09-18T14:18:09Z")
Hi, has anything moved here? This issue is still holding us back from using dash/hevc in production. As we cannot edit this value (it is calculated by Wowza automatically with 2x segment duration), we would as an alternative like to offer a separate / parallel manifest file that omits this value altogether. I cannot understand how this does not affect other users.
For a player that strictly interprets these values (suggestedPresentationDelay and mpegdashChunkDurationTarget), it means that the player will mostly have only one (!) segment in buffer, which obviously will lead to issues with playback.