# Transcoder Not Available (osx-64)

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/transcoder-not-available-osx-64/392>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [October 25, 2011, 10:23am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/transcoder-not-available-osx-64/392 "2011-10-25T10:23:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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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 25, 2011, 10:23am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/transcoder-not-available-osx-64/392/1 "2011-10-25T10:23:54Z")

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Hi

Transcoder Streams Available: Transcoder Not Available (osx-64)

When to expect some support?

thank you…

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**Author:** ![Alex\_Pidboretskyy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@Alex\_Pidboretskyy](https://community.wowza.com/u/Alex_Pidboretskyy)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 2:42pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/transcoder-not-available-osx-64/392/2 "2011-10-25T14:42:34Z")

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I use the developer license, and also tried the demo license.

[http://pix.am/G1Ph/](http://pix.am/G1Ph/)

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Glaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Richard\_Glaser](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Glaser)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 3:14pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/transcoder-not-available-osx-64/392/3 "2013-06-14T15:14:59Z")

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Any plans on the Transcoder supporting OS X? We use Wowza with OS X and would like to keep using it and other add-ons like the Transcoder with it.

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**Author:** ![Jason\_Hilton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/jason_hilton/32/437_2.png) [@Jason\_Hilton](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jason_Hilton)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 12:44pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/transcoder-not-available-osx-64/392/4 "2011-10-25T12:44:00Z")

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Hi

Hardware and Driver Requirements

Wowza Transcoder is supported on:

Windows 64-bit

Linux 64-bit

Note: 32-bit operating systems are not supported and OSX is not supported.

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-set-up-and-run-wowza-transcoder-for-live-streaming](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-set-up-and-run-wowza-transcoder-for-live-streaming)

Jason

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 9:22am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/transcoder-not-available-osx-64/392/5 "2013-06-15T09:22:24Z")

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No, I don’t know of any plans to add support for Transcoder on Mac OSX

Richard

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**Author:** ![Matt\_Pangaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@Matt\_Pangaro](https://community.wowza.com/u/Matt_Pangaro)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 9:12pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/transcoder-not-available-osx-64/392/6 "2016-08-18T21:12:36Z")

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I know this was from forever ago, but I was wondering if there was any explanation for why it’s not possible to do transcoding on OSX? It seems so close to linux/BSD that it should be possible. Is it a licensing issue, a support one, or a technical one?

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**Author:** ![Paul\_Shields](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/paul_shields/32/390_2.png) [@Paul\_Shields](https://community.wowza.com/u/Paul_Shields)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/transcoder-not-available-osx-64/392/7 "2016-09-13T14:50:12Z")

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Hi,

We have certain OS-specific libraries for Transcoding on Linux and Windows (see the /lib-native directory of a Wowza installation on Windows/Linux). Currently we do not provide these specific hooks for OSX.

Regards,

Paul