# how to use ffmpeg as transcoding and wowza as streaming ?

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-use-ffmpeg-as-transcoding-and-wowza-as-streaming/36946>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [July 23, 2012, 8:50am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-use-ffmpeg-as-transcoding-and-wowza-as-streaming/36946 "2012-07-23T08:50:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vadim\_Lungu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Vadim\_Lungu](https://community.wowza.com/u/Vadim_Lungu)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 8:50am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-use-ffmpeg-as-transcoding-and-wowza-as-streaming/36946/1 "2012-07-23T08:50:05Z")

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Hello everyone,

for couple of days I’m trying to get a live stream, having the following architecture:

source stream: is a h.264 video and MPEG1 multicast

as a transcoding I want to use ffmpeg, that is placed on a virtual machine.

as a streaming server I want to use Wowza (wowza it is placed on a different machine then ffmpeg).

I was doing some research on internet, but i wasn’t able to find some clear tutorial. I have some experience with wowza, but I’am totally noob on ffmpeg.

Thank you in advance.

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 12:32pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-use-ffmpeg-as-transcoding-and-wowza-as-streaming/36946/2 "2012-07-23T12:32:55Z")

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Take a look at this article:

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-ffmpeg-with-wowza-media-server-mpeg-ts](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-ffmpeg-with-wowza-media-server-mpeg-ts)

Richard