# Wowza player increase retry count

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-player-increase-retry-count/48941>\
**Category:** Wowza Developer Dojo\
**Tags:** wowza-player-javascript-api\
**Created:** [June 7, 2017, 1:58am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-player-increase-retry-count/48941 "2017-06-07T01:58:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jean\_Quach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e36b37/32.png) [@Jean\_Quach](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jean_Quach)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 1:58am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-player-increase-retry-count/48941/1 "2017-06-07T01:58:48Z")

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Hi,

Is there a way to increase the number of retries the Wowza player makes before throwing an error?

Thanks,

Jean

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**Author:** ![Alberto\_Cabaleiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Alberto\_Cabaleiro](https://community.wowza.com/u/Alberto_Cabaleiro)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 2:37pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-player-increase-retry-count/48941/2 "2019-06-19T14:37:56Z")

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Hello Jean,

Thanks for posting this question on the forum. By default, Wowza Player tries to connect to the source URL a maximum of three times. If connection to a source fails after three tries, and no [fallback URL](https://www.wowza.com/docs/fall-back-to-a-source-with-the-wowza-player-javascript-api) is configured, the player will throw an error, as you correctly point out.

Nonetheless, the below properties could be configured when creating the player to modify such behaviour:

[Manifest Retry Parameters]

streamerRetryPeriodFrequency - int (default: 2000 ms)

streamerRetryPeriodMaximumRetries - int (default: 2)

[Chunklist Retry Parameters]

streamerRetryRepresentationFrequency - int (default: 2000 ms) streamerRetryRepresentationMaximumRetries - int (default: 2) streamerRetryRepresentationMaximumReloads - int (default: 10)

[Chunk Retry Parameters]

streamerRetryChunkFrequency - int (default: 1000 ms)

streamerRetryChunkMaximumRetries - int (default: 3)

Please feel free to play around with the above values until finding the best configuration for your specific use case.

Thank you,

Alberto Cabaleiro

Wowza Support Engineer