# Is mABREnabled just a decoy in the SDK?

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/is-mabrenabled-just-a-decoy-in-the-sdk/49596>\
**Category:** Wowza GoCoder SDK\
**Created:** [September 1, 2017, 9:51am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/is-mabrenabled-just-a-decoy-in-the-sdk/49596 "2017-09-01T09:51:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![David\_Benoit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@David\_Benoit](https://community.wowza.com/u/David_Benoit)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 9:51am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/is-mabrenabled-just-a-decoy-in-the-sdk/49596/1 "2017-09-01T09:51:06Z")

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Was wandering around and found the variable mABREnabled. The docs doesn’t provide a lot and I’d like to know if setting it to true has any effect at the moment?

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**Author:** ![Michelle\_B](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/michelle_b/32/394_2.png) [@Michelle\_B](https://community.wowza.com/u/Michelle_B)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 1:31am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/is-mabrenabled-just-a-decoy-in-the-sdk/49596/2 "2017-09-02T01:31:07Z")

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This is described in the [GoCoder Android API reference](https://www.wowza.com/resources/gocodersdk/docs/1.0/api-reference-android/):

setABREnabled public void setABREnabled(boolean abrEnabled) Enable or disable Adjustable Bitrate (ABR) Parameters: abrEnabled - true to have the bitrate of the video stream automatically adjusted based on bandwidth constraints, false otherwise