Elemental Encoder to AMS Adaptive Bitrate Streams

In the adobe instructions it say the following:

livestream%i?adbe-live-event=liveevent

note: The applications/livepkgr/main.asc file expects this value. Flash Media Live Encoder uses the variable %i to create multiple stream names: livestream1, livestream2, livestream3, and so on. To use another encoder, provide your own unique stream names, for example, livestream1?adbe-live-event=liveevent, livestream2?adbe-live-event=liveevent.

But what if I am NOT using Adobe Flash Media Encoder...  If I am using another encoder such as the Elemental do i need to send multiple streams named Stream1, Stream2 and so on.. And do those streams bitrates need to MATCH what i have in the m3u8 file???

Or can I send ONE stream to AMS?