# SDI Input support on Wowza

**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/sdi-input-support-on-wowza/52954
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [March 7, 2019, 6:22am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/sdi-input-support-on-wowza/52954 "2019-03-07T06:22:17Z")
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### Author: ![Priyanka\_Singh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/dec6dc/32.png) [@Priyanka\_Singh](https://community.wowza.com/u/Priyanka_Singh)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2019, 6:22am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/sdi-input-support-on-wowza/52954/1 "2019-03-07T06:22:17Z")

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Hello Team,

We need a solution where wowza should be able to support SDI input and encodes it.

We will be using webrtc for streaming.

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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: [March 7, 2019, 4:49pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/sdi-input-support-on-wowza/52954/2 "2019-03-07T16:49:54Z")

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Wowza Streaming Engine is network based and cannot connect to a hardware based capture device. Best practice is to have an encoder on another computer send it’s live feed into Wowza Streaming Engine.

WebRTC is designed for browser to browser communication. We do not support sending a live feed from an encoder to WebRTC clients.

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-webrtc-with-wowza-streaming-engine](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-webrtc-with-wowza-streaming-engine)

From the article:

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Note: While Wowza Streaming Engine Transcoder can transcode from WebRTC into other formats, it can't transcode non-WebRTC streams into WebRTC.

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