# Change recording quality

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/change-recording-quality/50261>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Tags:** recording\
**Created:** [November 29, 2017, 6:37pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/change-recording-quality/50261 "2017-11-29T18:37:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Isaac\_Peek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Isaac\_Peek](https://community.wowza.com/u/Isaac_Peek)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 6:37pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/change-recording-quality/50261/1 "2017-11-29T18:37:10Z")

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I have the live nDVR recording working and it’s recording as expected, but to to reduce some storage use is there a way to set the quality of the recorded video to be compressed?

Thanks in advanced

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**Author:** ![Stuart\_Gunn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Stuart\_Gunn](https://community.wowza.com/u/Stuart_Gunn)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 10:46pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/change-recording-quality/50261/2 "2017-11-29T22:46:18Z")

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Not sure you can transcode just the nDVR stuff unless you’re happy to transcode the entire live + nDVR stream, meaning your live stream would also be of reduced quality.

If you are you could setup two transcodings - one for archival recording, and one for nDVR and live streaming. More CPU load etc etc of course.