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  • AddOn: Wowza Transcoder

    Wowza Transcoder AddOn Overview 

    Published on 10-11-2011 11:45 AM     Number of Views: 16480 
    1. Categories:
    2. Live,
    3. Wowza Transcoder

    Wowza Transcoder AddOn provides the ability to ingest a live stream, decode the video and audio, and then re-encode the stream to suit desired playback devices. Wowza Transcoder is a real time video transcoding and transrating solution. It can decode and re-encode audio and video in multiple formats with properly aligned key frames adaptive bitrate delivery.

    Note: Wowza Media Server® 3.0.0 or later is required.

    Common scenarios


    Transcode

    Ingest a non-H.264 video and non-AAC/MP3 audio formatted media stream and convert it to a properly key-frame-aligned set of adaptive bitrate media streams formatted with H.263 or H.264 video and AAC or MP3 audio.

    Transrate

    Ingest an H.264 video and AAC/MP3 audio formatted media stream and create a full set of bitrate renditions that are key-frame-aligned to the source stream for adaptive bitrate delivery.

    Supported video and audio formats


    Video (decoding)

    • H.264
    • MPEG-2
    • MPEG-4 Part 2

    Video (encoding)

    • H.263v2
    • H.264

    Audio (decoding)

    • AAC
    • G.711 (µ-law and A-law)
    • MPEG-1 Layer 1/2
    • MPEG-3
    • Speex

    Audio (encoding)

    • AAC

    Additional resources


    • How to set up and run Wowza Transcoder AddOn for live streaming
    • Wowza Transcoder User's Guide
    • How to get images from Wowza Transcoder with an HTTPProvider

    Wowza Transcoder AddOn Performance Benchmark 

    Published on 10-10-2011 12:44 AM     Number of Views: 15672 
    1. Categories:
    2. Live,
    3. Wowza Transcoder

    Wowza Transcoder AddOn offers both accelerated and un-accelerated video encoding, depending on your hardware configuration. ...
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    How to create and play SMIL files with streams created by Wowza Transcoder 

    Published on 10-08-2011 06:46 AM     Number of Views: 9934 
    1. Categories:
    2. Live,
    3. Wowza Transcoder

    This article describes how to create and play a Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) file with transcoded ...
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    Server specifications for Intel Quick Sync acceleration with Wowza Transcoder AddOn 

    Published on 10-07-2011 11:57 AM     Number of Views: 8400 
    1. Categories:
    2. Live,
    3. Wowza Transcoder

    Wowza Transcoder AddOn supports Intel Quick Sync (Sandy Bridge) accelerated video encoding. This article describes the basic ...
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    Server specifications for NVIDIA NVENC and NVIDIA CUDA acceleration with Wowza Transcoder AddOn 

    Published on 10-07-2011 11:48 AM     Number of Views: 6604 
    1. Categories:
    2. Live,
    3. Wowza Transcoder

    Wowza Media Server supports NVIDIA® NVENC and NVIDIA CUDA® accelerated video encoding to enable accelerated transcoding with Wowza Transcoder AddOn at greater scale and speed. ...
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    How to verify which Wowza Transcoder implementation is invoked 

    Published on 10-08-2011 04:08 AM     Number of Views: 5689 
    1. Categories:
    2. Wowza Transcoder

    Wowza Transcoder supports Intel Quick Sync and NVIDIA NVENC accelerated encoding on Windows and Linux operating systems and NVIDIA CUDA accelerated encoding on Windows. You can use information in Wowza Media Server logs to determine if hardware acceleration is available and if it's being used. This article describes what to look for in the logs. ...
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    How to enable hardware accelerated transcoding when running as a Windows service 

    Published on 10-12-2011 06:35 AM     Number of Views: 5585 
    1. Categories:
    2. Live,
    3. Wowza Transcoder

    Windows service workaround to enable Wowza Transcoder NVIDIA CUDA and Intel Quick Sync hardware acceleration. ...
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    How to configure Quick Sync accelerated encoding on Linux 

    Published on 11-08-2012 02:03 PM     Number of Views: 4134 
    1. Categories:
    2. Wowza Transcoder

    Wowza Transcoder AddOn contains preview technology that makes the best use of 3rd generation Intel® Core™ processors on ...
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    How to set up Wowza Transcoder Quick Sync accelerated encoding on Fedora Core 

    Published on 11-08-2012 02:10 PM     Number of Views: 1112 
    1. Categories:
    2. Wowza Transcoder

    Wowza Transcoder AddOn contains preview technology that makes the best use of 3rd generation Intel® Core™ processors on ...
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    How to set up Wowza Transcoder Quick Sync accelerated encoding on Ubuntu Desktop 

    Published on 11-08-2012 02:09 PM     Number of Views: 1917 
    1. Categories:
    2. Wowza Transcoder

    Wowza Transcoder AddOn contains preview technology that makes the best use of 3rd generation Intel® Core™ processors on ...
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    How to set up Wowza Transcoder Quick Sync accelerated encoding on CentOS 

    Published on 11-08-2012 02:07 PM     Number of Views: 1746 
    1. Categories:
    2. Wowza Transcoder

    Wowza Transcoder AddOn contains preview technology that makes the best use of 3rd generation Intel® Core™ processors on ...
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    How to configure NVENC accelerated encoding on Linux 

    Published on 05-28-2013 04:00 PM     Number of Views: 253 
    1. Categories:
    2. Wowza Transcoder

    Wowza Media Server® 3.6 supports the new NVIDIA graphics cards with the new Kepler GPU architecture to enable accelerated ...
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    How to set up Wowza Transcoder NVIDIA NVENC accelerated encoding on Fedora 

    Published on 05-28-2013 04:00 PM     Number of Views: 112 
    1. Categories:
    2. Wowza Transcoder

    Wowza Transcoder AddOn in Wowza Media Server 3.6 supports NVIDIA's NVENC accelerated H.264 encoding technology, which is available with the Kepler line of NVIDIA graphics cards. This technology is supported on Windows and Linux operating systems.

    This article describes how to set up the NVIDIA driver and Wowza Media Server on Fedora to leverage this technology. ...
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    How to set up Wowza Transcoder NVIDIA NVENC accelerated encoding on Ubuntu 

    Published on 05-28-2013 04:00 PM     Number of Views: 145 
    1. Categories:
    2. Wowza Transcoder

    Wowza Transcoder AddOn in Wowza Media Server 3.6 supports NVIDIA's NVENC accelerated H.264 encoding technology, which is available with the Kepler line of NVIDIA graphics cards. This technology is supported on Windows and Linux operating systems.

    This article describes how to set up the NVIDIA driver and Wowza Media Server on Ubuntu Server to leverage this technology. ...
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    How to set up Wowza Transcoder NVIDIA NVENC accelerated encoding on CentOS 

    Published on 05-28-2013 04:00 PM     Number of Views: 166 
    1. Categories:
    2. Wowza Transcoder

    Wowza Transcoder AddOn in Wowza Media Server 3.6 supports NVIDIA's NVENC accelerated H.264 encoding technology, which is available with the Kepler line of NVIDIA graphics cards. This technology is supported on Windows and Linux operating systems.

    This article describes how to set up the NVIDIA driver and Wowza Media Server on CentOS to leverage this technology. ...
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    How to set up Wowza Transcoder NVIDIA NVENC accelerated encoding on Debian 

    Published on 05-28-2013 04:00 PM     Number of Views: 129 
    1. Categories:
    2. Wowza Transcoder

    Wowza Transcoder AddOn in Wowza Media Server 3.6 supports NVIDIA's NVENC accelerated H.264 encoding technology, which is available with the Kepler line of NVIDIA graphics cards. This technology is supported on Windows and Linux operating systems.

    This article describes how to set up the NVIDIA driver and Wowza Media Server on Debian to leverage this technology. ...
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    How to add graphic overlays to live streams with Wowza Transcoder AddOn 

    Published on 11-08-2012 12:00 PM     Number of Views: 6088 
    1. Categories:
    2. Live,
    3. Wowza Transcoder

    This article provides instructions for developers about how to use Wowza Transcoder AddOn to place overlay images onto live ...
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    How to control which streams get transcoded using server-side API 

    Published on 10-07-2011 12:07 PM     Number of Views: 2589 
    1. Categories:
    2. Wowza Transcoder

    Note: Wowza Media Server® 3.0.0 or later is required.

    Below is a simple module that uses the ILiveStreamTranscoderControl ...
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    How to fix missing frame rate issue when using Wowza Transcoder 

    Published on 10-25-2012 07:44 AM     Number of Views: 1127 
    1. Categories:
    2. Live,
    3. Wowza Transcoder

    Some video encoders do not include frame rate information in stream metadata (SPS NAL unit VUI data and SDP data). Wowza Transcoder needs proper frame rate information to configure the encoding sessions. When frame rate information is not available, Wowza Transcoder will assume a frame rate of 29.97 frames-per-second. When this happens you will see the following log statement: ...
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    How to use Wowza Transcoder AddOn on a live stream repeater edge 

    Published on 12-16-2011 02:46 PM     Number of Views: 5142 
    1. Categories:
    2. Live,
    3. Live Stream Repeater,
    4. Wowza Transcoder

    To transcode using the Wowza Transcoder on a Wowza live stream repeater edge application, use .stream files (or StreamNameAlias ...
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