# Live transcoder stream names

**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/live-transcoder-stream-names/50065
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [November 6, 2017, 5:45pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-transcoder-stream-names/50065 "2017-11-06T17:45:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![Jon\_Harington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/839c29/32.png) [@Jon\_Harington](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jon_Harington)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2017, 5:45pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-transcoder-stream-names/50065/1 "2017-11-06T17:45:30Z")

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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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### Author: ![Andrew\_Ramberg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7c8e57/32.png) [@Andrew\_Ramberg](https://community.wowza.com/u/Andrew_Ramberg)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2017, 1:46pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-transcoder-stream-names/50065/2 "2017-11-07T13:46:03Z")

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Hello,

You should be able to do this using the [Stream Name Alias addon](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-get-the-streamnamealias-addon).

Best regards,  
Andrew