Live transcoder stream names

Wowza Streaming Engine
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I have a situation where an incoming stream named “streamX_uniqueID” is coming into my Wowza transcoder module. I need the lowest transcoded stream to be named “streamX”. Wowza is not allowing me to do this and throws the error “Stream Name cannot be mp4:${SourceStreamName}”

Is there a way to accomplish this?

Thanks

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Hi,

You can’t set the output stream name to be the same as the source. It is possible to create a preset that is just called streamX though. Assuming the source is streamX_xxxx then you’d create a new preset with the “Output Stream Name” of mp4:streamX. That would create a transcoded/transrated output stream of that name. Is that not what you’re trying to achieve?

Regards,

Paul

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Paul,

I ended up getting around this using a push publishing setup per https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-push-streams-to-cdns-and-other-services-push-publishing

Thanks,

Mike