# Find source stream from transcoded stream

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/find-source-stream-from-transcoded-stream/33599>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [March 7, 2014, 2:06am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/find-source-stream-from-transcoded-stream/33599 "2014-03-07T02:06:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Karel\_Boek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/karel_boek/32/454_2.png) [@Karel\_Boek](https://community.wowza.com/u/Karel_Boek)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2014, 2:06am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/find-source-stream-from-transcoded-stream/33599/1 "2014-03-07T02:06:56Z")

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Is it possible to find the source/original stream from a transcoded stream?

```auto
if (stream.isTranscodeResult() == true) {
    IMediaStream sourceStream = ... ?
}

```

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**Author:** ![Matt\_Young](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/matt_young/32/389_2.png) [@Matt\_Young](https://community.wowza.com/u/Matt_Young)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2014, 10:48am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/find-source-stream-from-transcoded-stream/33599/2 "2014-03-07T10:48:23Z")

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You might check out this [post](http://community.wowza.com/t/-/35562) as a way to track references from renditions to the source stream.