How to transrate H264 format stream without a need to transcode

Wowza Streaming Engine
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Hi,

I have one incoming H264 format stream and want to transrate it to different bit rates for adaptive bit rate switching. Should I be using the Wowza transcoder add-on for it even though I dont need to actually transcode the format.

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Yes, that is the transrate case. See the tutorial here for more information:

https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-set-up-and-run-wowza-transcoder-for-live-streaming

Charlie

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Are you running Wowza in stand-alone (/bin/startup.bat) mode? What is log messages do you see when the stream is published?

Richard

4

Charlie,

My source is encoded in h264 and has 9 MBits/sec and I want to transrate to 1MBits/sec. I put passthru in codec at transrate.xml and stream out dont work.

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I’m curious - is transrating a stream as computationally intensive as transcoding?