If you are doing a simple live streaming from an encoder,
you should be using a broadcast publishing point in most
cases.

However, even on a broadcast publishing point, one can do
it in two ways:  source from a .WSX file (WSX file
contains a single entry pointing to the encoder) or
directly from the encoder.

You can use WSX to do more powerful things (like setting
duration of live broadcast element, setup a fail over in
case you want redundancy etc.) but if you simply want to
source from an encoder, directly pointing it to the
encoder is the way to go (you have one less file to
manage). However, my guess is that perf. wise both
scenario's must be pretty much close to each other.

Ravi
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