# Wowza 4.6.0 HLS Live, who to add a random segment filename/timestamp?

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-4-6-0-hls-live-who-to-add-a-random-segment-filename-timestamp/41375>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [November 29, 2016, 1:18pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-4-6-0-hls-live-who-to-add-a-random-segment-filename-timestamp/41375 "2016-11-29T13:18:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Florida\_Stream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Florida\_Stream](https://community.wowza.com/u/Florida_Stream)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 1:18pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-4-6-0-hls-live-who-to-add-a-random-segment-filename-timestamp/41375/1 "2016-11-29T13:18:41Z")

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Hi, I’m using the latest version of wowza for real-time video streaming, but I was not able to configure Cupertino to enable random name generation for segments.

I would like the segments to be random and not as below:

```auto
media_w94628688_525.ts
media_w94628688_526.ts
media_w94628688_527.ts
...

```

I would like the segments to be random:

```auto
media_w94628688_525_8x485d1xf5v.ts
media_w94628688_526_5r5r41g5rfgd.ts
media_w94628688_527_878sff8d4fgg.ts

```

Or something like that.

How could I implement this for **Live Application**? :o

@EDIT:

I try httpRandomizeMediaName but don’t work.

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**Author:** ![Florida\_Stream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Florida\_Stream](https://community.wowza.com/u/Florida_Stream)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2016, 4:33pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-4-6-0-hls-live-who-to-add-a-random-segment-filename-timestamp/41375/2 "2016-12-03T16:33:27Z")

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Does anyone know how to do this? Or any information about something like that?

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**Author:** ![Alex\_C](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Alex\_C](https://community.wowza.com/u/Alex_C)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2016, 8:16pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-4-6-0-hls-live-who-to-add-a-random-segment-filename-timestamp/41375/3 "2016-12-30T20:16:21Z")

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> Hi, I’m using the latest version of wowza for real-time video streaming, but I was not able to configure Cupertino to enable random name generation for segments.
> 
> I would like the segments to be random and not as below:
> 
> ```auto
> media_w94628688_525.ts
> media_w94628688_526.ts
> media_w94628688_527.ts
> ...
> 
> ```
> 
> I would like the segments to be random:
> 
> ```auto
> media_w94628688_525_8x485d1xf5v.ts
> media_w94628688_526_5r5r41g5rfgd.ts
> media_w94628688_527_878sff8d4fgg.ts
> 
> ```
> 
> Or something like that.
> 
> How could I implement this for **Live Application**? :o
> 
> @EDIT:
> 
> I try httpRandomizeMediaName but don’t work.

Hello Melissa,

At this time we do not support the feature of customizing the generated chunk names. This has been submitted to our enhancement request list, and it is something we may add in the future, though there is no definitive timeframe as to when we will support it. I will make sure to pass on your feedback to our product management team. Please do check back in periodically to our Software Updates page to see if your feature request has been deployed.

> **[Software updates](https://www.wowza.com/docs/software-updates)**
>
> Upgrade Wowza Streaming Engine and view latest updates and release notes.

Regards,

Alex