# FFMPEG to compare with Wowza Benchmark

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/ffmpeg-to-compare-with-wowza-benchmark/51525>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Tags:** transcoder\
**Created:** [June 23, 2018, 4:55pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/ffmpeg-to-compare-with-wowza-benchmark/51525 "2018-06-23T16:55:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![mimi\_kaka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@mimi\_kaka](https://community.wowza.com/u/mimi_kaka)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 4:55pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/ffmpeg-to-compare-with-wowza-benchmark/51525/1 "2018-06-23T16:55:15Z")

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Hi everyone,

I have a Wowza license reserved for live video streaming. I am thinking to use it also for video transcoding.

1. Currently I evaluate ffmpeg open-source and see how it matches up with Wowza Benchmark, both on the sample instance under GCP. When I used a n-standard-8, I saw CPU 770%. Does it mean I have already maximized my resources? Will running Wowza on the same instance size give me a performance benefit here?

2. Newbie questions: If I use a normal GCP compute engine to host a website and points VOD video links to Google storage, will it stream the videos as fine as using a Wowza instance to stream VOD video?

Appreciate all your helps.