# Can I use Wowza Streaming Engine as a back-end transcoding service

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/can-i-use-wowza-streaming-engine-as-a-back-end-transcoding-service/51400>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Tags:** transcoder\
**Created:** [May 31, 2018, 8:25am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/can-i-use-wowza-streaming-engine-as-a-back-end-transcoding-service/51400 "2018-05-31T08:25:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Venkata\_Sanmukheswar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/4491bb/32.png) [@Venkata\_Sanmukheswar](https://community.wowza.com/u/Venkata_Sanmukheswar)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 8:25am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/can-i-use-wowza-streaming-engine-as-a-back-end-transcoding-service/51400/1 "2018-05-31T08:25:04Z")

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I have a Learning & Development Web Application that allows admins to upload video content. I am looking for streaming solutions for these videos. Per my understanding these videos need to be transmux / transcoded to support adaptive streaming. for this we need a transcoding service. Can I use Wowza Streaming Engine as a service to transcode my files on upload OR on access by users. I don’t want to serve these content through Wowza, as I have a highly custom security model implemented in my current web application.

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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:** [June 1, 2018, 10:48pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/can-i-use-wowza-streaming-engine-as-a-back-end-transcoding-service/51400/2 "2018-06-01T22:48:23Z")

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Wowza Streaming Engine’s Transcoder is used to convert live content only. VOD conversion is not supported. More information on Transcoder can be found in the [this article](https://www.wowza.com/docs/wowza-transcoder).

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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:** [June 1, 2018, 10:51pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/can-i-use-wowza-streaming-engine-as-a-back-end-transcoding-service/51400/3 "2018-06-01T22:51:10Z")

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There is a free and open source encoding tool called FFmpeg. We have a few articles on how to convert VOD content to be compatible with streaming media.

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-encode-vod-using-ffmpeg-with-wowza-streaming-engine](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-encode-vod-using-ffmpeg-with-wowza-streaming-engine)

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-optimize-the-video-bitrate](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-optimize-the-video-bitrate)