Turning on Transcoding on Autoscaler

How to Enable/Disable Transcoding for Load balancers?

Enabling Transcoding while creating Load balancers involves slightly different steps unlike, the usual origin and edge servers adding method.

Step 1

On turning on Transcoding, a new “Preset” option appear so you can select your set of transcoding resolution.

Note: If you have enabled the “Channel Creation” setting, then there will be two channels (output & input) created to support transcoding.

Step 2

Then enter your edge servers.
The channel creation option should be left “On” here too.
If you have turned on Transcoding in the previous step 1, then the Multi bitrate will be automatically turned on in step 2.
Then select the push/pull option and click the “Generate Stream URL” button to generate bulk RTMP URLs.
And click the “Create” button.

Note: On clicking the “Generate Stream URL” button, bulk RTMP URLs for the selected set of resolutions get generated.

Disable Transcoding

To turn off Transcoding,

A dialog box opens, where you can set Transcoding as Off and then click the “Update” button.