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Transrated Streams
Transrating is the process where a digital bit stream is converted from one bit rate to another-without changing the compression. An example of transrating is when a high bit rate stream is converted into multiple lower bit rate streams for delivery to mobile devices. Note that the DME does not change the resolution of the source stream, although the receiving device will generally display the stream at its preferred resolution.
 
Note: When working with streams with closed captions, do not change the framerate. You can still change the resolution and bitrate, but changing the framerate will have adverse effects on CC data. In these cases, please keep framerate set to "Current Rate".
 
*See Also:
Stream Conversion