Hey all!
Seeing some weirdness with the transcoder add on (using Wowza 4.x). Some background info…
We’re trying to transrate the source stream down to 2 lower bitrates, specifically 1200 Kbps down to 500 and 200. The source stream (1200) looks great, very fluid framerate, overall looks awesome. Now the 2 transrated streams (500 and 200) look smooth until we start seeing a lot of movement on the stream (dancing / arms flailing, etc) where it begins to look as if the framerate gets cut in half. CPU on the server is around 50%, so I don’t think this is an issue with server stress.
When each stream’s publishing has begun, I can see the JNI:VideoDecoderH264.updateDecodeInfo entry in the info log shows the proper framerate for each stream (24 fps). Switching between the different bitrates works great, keyframes are aligned properly and the transitions are smooth… so not sure if that’s telling. We are not using an EC2 GP class instance due to cost, could it be that the instance we are using just can’t handle drawing those frames?