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title: Broadcaster Transcoder
slug: zixi-broadcaster-v18/broadcaster-transcoder
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createdAt: 2024-12-25T19:40:00.163Z
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Zixi Broadcaster offers live transcoding, enabling users to create multiple bitrate streams from a single input stream. The transcoding converts the video and audio live streams to a variety of profiles and bitrates. SCTE-35 markers will be preserved by the transcoder. 

The transcoder typically employed in the following cases:

- Where a target device does not support the source format.
- Where a target has limited storage capacity that requires a reduced file size. 
- To convert incompatible obsolete data to a better-supported or modern format.
- You can add video (H.264, H.265, MPEG2, Raw) and audio (AAC, OPUS, Raw) 

**Transcoding Templates**

Instead of manually selecting input streams to be transcoded, you can optionally define templates with rules for automatic transcoding of input streams according to the settings of a pre-defined Transcoding Template.

**NDI Transcoding**

For details about NDI transcoding, see [Configuring NDI Streams](docId:5_UH09eVTJwJUFwCusR0c)  section.

**WebRTC Transcoding**

For details about WebRTC transcoding, see section [Configuring WebRTC Streams](docId\:HFQkDM_AyxHGx6qx0jUXy) .

- [Creating New Transcoding Profiles](docId\:nnzH8CsjpFQlDlZCXGZ4c) 
- [Transcoding Broadcaster Input Streams](docId\:n8yUmYsVhstq6vGhqCjDn) 
- [Transcoding Broadcaster Templates](docId\:RPVDeRqZ2LAslTfSqFZdR) 
- [Hardware Acceleration Checklist](docId\:eH-OT6PCJoqCiXjt77dmX)