# Live-Application: Record all incoming streams - framerate and number of recorded file

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/live-application-record-all-incoming-streams-framerate-and-number-of-recorded-file/45353>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [October 8, 2015, 4:56pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-application-record-all-incoming-streams-framerate-and-number-of-recorded-file/45353 "2015-10-08T16:56:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Anton\_Tremetzberger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f05b48/32.png) [@Anton\_Tremetzberger](https://community.wowza.com/u/Anton_Tremetzberger)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 4:56pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-application-record-all-incoming-streams-framerate-and-number-of-recorded-file/45353/1 "2015-10-08T16:56:21Z")

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Dear Wowza Community,

in our organisation some of our live streams must be recorded, therefore I use the option “Record all incoming streams”. So we don’t need to start and stop recording manually. If someone will have the records of the streams I will forward him/her the recorded files. Based on my experiences with that function I just have two questions:

a.) Framerate

I have seen that the framerate of the recorded videos is variable. There are a few problems to cut videos with variable frame rate (we have to re-encode them etc). Is there any possibility to force Wowza (or the Transocder-Plugin) to use a fixed framerate?

b.) Output file names of recordings

The output file names are e.g: streamname\_1.mp4, streamname\_2.mp4, streamname\_3.mp4, … Is there a limit of file name numbers? E.g. if number 99 is reached the recorder will start at 1 and will overwrite old recordings …

Thank you & with best regards, Anton

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**Author:** ![Daren\_Johnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@Daren\_Johnson](https://community.wowza.com/u/Daren_Johnson)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2015, 8:48pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-application-record-all-incoming-streams-framerate-and-number-of-recorded-file/45353/2 "2015-10-26T20:48:50Z")

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Hi,

a) You could try [this technique](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-control-transcoded-video-with-video-encoding-parameters) to find the correct parameter to Configure CBR, instead of VBR.

b) The number would be fairly large (max integer I believe). The filename format is fixed for that particular recording technique. Instead you would get more control over the whole recording process, and still automatically record, by using the [Auto Record module.](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-start-and-stop-live-stream-recordings-programmatically-livestreamrecordautorecord-example%28LiveStreamRecordAutoRecord-example%29)

Daren