Test how many channels a server can handle

Wowza Streaming Engine
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I am running Wowza Streaming Engine 4.0.3 with transcoder addon. We have few transcoding licenses but we want to test full load.

I tried to add more streams under an application, it seems that it only allows up to the number of licenses I have.

If I am not mistaken it was possible in the previous version to add more channels but they had the watermark? In any case, is there a way to stress test the server?

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Hello,

This is correct. Each transcoded stream requires a transcoding license.

Please take a look at the “Wowza Transcoder AddOn Performance Benchmark” article to get an idea on the server capacity when using a different number of transcoded stream on various types of servers.

You should contact Wowza’s Sales department (sales@wowza.com) and ask about available solutions for testing the transcoding capacity of your server.

Zoran