# Wowza streaming engine shows Bytes In = 0 Kb/sec for an incoming stream.

**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-streaming-engine-shows-bytes-in-0-kb-sec-for-an-incoming-stream/53373
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [May 20, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-streaming-engine-shows-bytes-in-0-kb-sec-for-an-incoming-stream/53373 "2019-05-20T15:47:46Z")
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### Author: ![Mehul\_Jain1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mehul\_Jain1](https://community.wowza.com/u/Mehul_Jain1)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-streaming-engine-shows-bytes-in-0-kb-sec-for-an-incoming-stream/53373/1 "2019-05-20T15:47:46Z")

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I am trying to send a rtsp stream to Wowza Sever using ffmpeg. Wowza show the stream name in incoming streams, but the bytes in is always 0.

```auto
ffmpeg -rtsp_transport tcp -fflags nobuffer -re -i rtsp://[IP]/[STREAM_NAME] -vcodec copy -an -f rtsp rtsp://[WOWZA_IP]/[APPLICATION_NAME]/[STREAM_NAME]

```

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### Author: ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/system/32/447_2.png) [@system](https://community.wowza.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2019, 12:41am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-streaming-engine-shows-bytes-in-0-kb-sec-for-an-incoming-stream/53373/2 "2019-05-21T00:41:51Z")

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Wowza Streaming Engine can listen to an RTSP source and deliver it to other players.  
[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-re-stream-video-from-an-ip-camera-rtsp-rtp-re-streaming](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-re-stream-video-from-an-ip-camera-rtsp-rtp-re-streaming)

Wowza Streaming Engine will also automatically attempt to connect to the source if there is a problem. FFmpeg does not do that.

In addition your FFmpeg command can use some improvement as it is missing a user for authenticated publishing and is not using port 1935 which is the default port for Wowza Streaming Engine. For example.

```auto
ffmpeg -i [source] -vcodec copy -an -f rtsp -rtsp_transport tcp rtsp://[username][password]@[wowza-address]:1935/live/myStream

```

Additional information on how to use an RTSP encoder to stream to Wowza Streaming Engine can be found in the article below.  
[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-restream-using-ffmpeg-with-wowza-streaming-engine#rtsptcp](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-restream-using-ffmpeg-with-wowza-streaming-engine#rtsptcp)