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Transcoding

How to Conduct Transcoding Using Livebox?

If you are streaming and you want to carry out the same streaming across your other channel, then you can take through your video to the other channel by using Transcoding.

Transcoding also helps to achieve yourself in adjusting your stream with your viewer's video quality.

So, to start off with transcoding,

  • Keep your streaming channels ready i.e., output channel and input channel.
  • Now under Manage Channels, go to Transcoding
transcoding
  • A Transcoding page opens up and you can select your Input channel by clicking the drop-down menu given in the “Select Channel”option.
Select channel
  • In Output Channels, select the channel where the video has to be transcoded. Then give turn on near transcoding.
transcoding on Livebox
  • Once you give the turn on, new options for transcoding shows up, where you can set the Preset. And then click “Save:”.

Note:  Livebox will generate both Transcode Output URL and Transcode Embed Code.

transcoding streaming
  • After clicking save, give Service Restart to get your changes applied.
service restart

Now you have to stream a source using any encoder of your preference. So to stream a source to your Livebox server channel,

  • So go to Manage Channels from the Livebox navigation menu and copy the Streaming RTMP URL and Stream Key of your input channeland paste it on your encoder stream settings. 
streaming URL
streaming URLs
  • Start the live stream. And then go to the Livebox Dashboard where you can check the transcoding quality of your output channel near the bottom right corner.
streaming at multiple bitrates
  • To check RTMP stats of your streaming channel go to the Viewers Report. 
viewers report
  • In RTMP stats it shows audio and video bitrate of both output and input channels.
RTMP Status
  • And when you embed the output channel streams on your website, you can copy the Transcode Embed URL to publish the live stream on your website.

Note:  Through the Transcode Embed URL, you can publish the streaming content along with the transcode video quality.

transcoding at multiple bitrates

You are successful in your Transcoding streaming!
Happy to help!