# Can we use Windows media encoder to broadcast livestream with wowza streeamin engine?

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/can-we-use-windows-media-encoder-to-broadcast-livestream-with-wowza-streeamin-engine/51154>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Tags:** media-players-and-devices, encoder\
**Created:** [April 18, 2018, 11:19am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/can-we-use-windows-media-encoder-to-broadcast-livestream-with-wowza-streeamin-engine/51154 "2018-04-18T11:19:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nitendra\_Singh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea666f/32.png) [@Nitendra\_Singh](https://community.wowza.com/u/Nitendra_Singh)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2018, 11:19am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/can-we-use-windows-media-encoder-to-broadcast-livestream-with-wowza-streeamin-engine/51154/1 "2018-04-18T11:19:37Z")

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**Author:** ![Andrew\_Ramberg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7c8e57/32.png) [@Andrew\_Ramberg](https://community.wowza.com/u/Andrew_Ramberg)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2018, 3:03am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/can-we-use-windows-media-encoder-to-broadcast-livestream-with-wowza-streeamin-engine/51154/2 "2018-04-20T03:03:10Z")

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Hello,

I believe this software has been discontinued and has been replaced by [Expression Encoder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Expression_Encoder), which seems to support Smooth streaming output only. Wowza Streaming Engine can produce a Smooth stream for playback in Silverlight but ingest of Smooth streams is not supported.

Best regards,  
Andrew