# Live Transcoder Possible on the Edge or Origin ?

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/live-transcoder-possible-on-the-edge-or-origin/127>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [October 31, 2016, 3:57pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-transcoder-possible-on-the-edge-or-origin/127 "2016-10-31T15:57:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/system/32/447_2.png) [@system](https://community.wowza.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 3:57pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-transcoder-possible-on-the-edge-or-origin/127/1 "2016-10-31T15:57:23Z")

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Just wondering if the live transcoder is possible on the Edge rather than the Origin server ? possible to share the load there ?

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**Author:** ![SiggDev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SiggDev](https://community.wowza.com/u/SiggDev)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 6:52pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-transcoder-possible-on-the-edge-or-origin/127/2 "2016-11-11T18:52:35Z")

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The whole point of edge servers is to repeat the content created by origin. If you’re doing transcoding on a server it really becomes an origin server I guess.

However, origin/edge role is done per application, not per server, so you could split the transcoding load across multiple applications. For example if you have three applications and three servers, you could use server1 as origin/transcoder for app1 (and server2&3 as edges for app1); then user server2 as origin/transcoder for app2 (and server1&3 as edges for app2) and finally server3 as origin/transcoder for app3 (and server1&2 as edges for app3).

You lose simple scalability, but with good organisation it’s still possible to create a good scalability setup.

There are other options as well, e.g. using vhosts, but for a better recommendation you’d have to provide more details.

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**Author:** ![dan\_electro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@dan\_electro](https://community.wowza.com/u/dan_electro)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 3:47pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-transcoder-possible-on-the-edge-or-origin/127/3 "2016-11-14T15:47:07Z")

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ok I figured thanks. Spread the load across multiple origins of course.