# transcoding choice

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/transcoding-choice/40595>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [December 10, 2014, 9:27pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/transcoding-choice/40595 "2014-12-10T21:27:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Luis\_Muniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/df788c/32.png) [@Luis\_Muniz](https://community.wowza.com/u/Luis_Muniz)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2014, 9:27pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/transcoding-choice/40595/1 "2014-12-10T21:27:21Z")

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I’ll have 4 live streams publishing in my application, but I want only one stream to transcode.

How to choose a specific stream to transcode?

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![Daren\_Johnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@Daren\_Johnson](https://community.wowza.com/u/Daren_Johnson)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 12:35am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/transcoding-choice/40595/2 "2014-12-11T00:35:26Z")

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Hi,

The best way to do this is to [setup your transcoder template](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-set-up-and-run-wowza-transcoder-for-live-streaming#templateConfig_heading) so that the incoming stream name matches the template name, then don’t have a fall back template.

This way, only the stream with the stream name that matches will be transcoded.

Daren