Can Core work with third party software or hardware encoders?

The Core service is compatible with specific Teradek hardware and software encoders, see this article for a list of devices.

In general, most third party encoders are not compatible sources for Core. 

An update to Core was announced at NAB 2017 which will allow ingest of MPEG Transport Stream (MPEG-TS) from 3rd party sources. This update will be available in Q2 2017, sign up at this link for additional details and to be notified when this is available.

NOTE: this is only for ingest of MPEG-TS. Ingest of RTMP from 3rd party sources is not supported.

The below list is subject to modification as support of MPEG-TS ingest is implemented.

Incompatible encoders include, but are not limited to:

Hardware

• Livestream Broadcaster
• Livestream Studio
• NewTek TriCaster
• vMix Go

Software

• Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder
• Livestream Studio
• Open Broadcaster Software (OBS)
• Telestream Wirecast
• Telestream Wirecast Go
• VidBlaster
• vMix Live Production Software
• Wowza GoCoder
• Wowza Streaming Cloud
• Wowza Streaming Engine
• XSplit Broadcaster