# Wowza Player can't play rtmp

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-player-cant-play-rtmp/53646>\
**Category:** Wowza Player\
**Created:** [July 12, 2019, 7:30am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-player-cant-play-rtmp/53646 "2019-07-12T07:30:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![yi\_Zhang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/f1d935/32.png) [@yi\_Zhang](https://community.wowza.com/u/yi_Zhang)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 7:30am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-player-cant-play-rtmp/53646/1 "2019-07-12T07:30:18Z")

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WowzaPlayer play rtmp sourceURL

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**Author:** ![Karel\_Boek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/karel_boek/32/454_2.png) [@Karel\_Boek](https://community.wowza.com/u/Karel_Boek)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 7:39pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-player-cant-play-rtmp/53646/2 "2019-07-12T19:39:05Z")

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The Wowza (web-based) player only plays HLS; like pretty much all web-based players (many of them can do MPEG-DASH too, but bottom line: HTTP-based protocols only). The only web-based players that play RTMP are Flash-based, and - as you know - Flash is dying.