Administrator’s Guide
Table Of Contents
- Administrator’s Guide
- Contents
- QuickTime Streaming
- Getting Started
- Managing Your Streaming Server
- User Interface
- Working With Streaming Server Admin
- Viewing Streaming Status
- Starting or Stopping Streaming Service
- Working With Connected Users
- Changing Server Settings
- Controlling QuickTime Broadcaster Remotely
- Working With General Settings
- Working With Port Settings
- Working With Log Settings
- Viewing Error Logs and Access History
- Media
- About Instant-On Streaming
- Preparing Prerecorded Media
- Preparing Audio
- Streaming Media Files With Multiple Sources
- Streaming File Formats Like .avi, .text, and .wav
- Exporting a QuickTime Movie as a Hinted Movie
- Improving the Performance of Hinted Movies
- Session Description Protocol (SDP) Files
- Streaming Live Media
- Viewing Streamed Media From a Client Computer
- Setting Up a Web Page With Streamed Media
- Creating Links to MP3 Playlists
- Bandwidth Considerations
- Playlists
- Relays
- Security
- Resetting the Streaming Server Admin User Name and Password
- Controlling Access to Streamed Media
- Creating an Access File
- What Clients Need to Access Protected Media
- Adding User Accounts and Passwords
- Adding or Deleting Groups
- Making Changes to the User or Group File
- Installing SSL
- Using Automatic Unicast (Announce) With QTSS or DSS on a Separate Computer
- Executing a Command With sudo
- Streaming on Port 80
- Firewalls and Networks With Address Translation
- Problems
- Streaming Server Admin Is Not Responding
- The Server Doesn’t Start Up or Quits Unexpectedly
- The Streaming Server Computer Crashes or Is Restarted
- Media Files Do Not Stream Properly
- Streaming Performance Seems Slow
- Users Can’t Connect to Your Broadcast
- Users See Error Messages While Streaming Media
- Users Can’t See Live Streamed Media
- You’re Having Problems With Playlists
- Advanced
- How do I bind the Streaming Server Admin computer to a single IP address if my machine is multiho...
- How do I bind QTSS or DSS to a single IP address if my machine is multihomed?
- How do I kill and restart the QuickTime Streaming Server processes in Mac OS X Server?
- How do I kill and restart Streaming Server Admin processes in Mac OS X Server?
- How do I get QTSS to re-read its preferences without killing or restarting the server?
- How do I configure QTSS to host streams from multiple user media directories?
- User Interface
- Setup Example
- Glossary
- Index
QuickTime Streaming
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Improved stream quality:
Enhancements to Apple skip-protection technology (patent
pending)—a collection of quality-of-service features-—result in even better stream quality.
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Performance enhancements:
Overall stability and performance of the server has been
improved.
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Authentication:
Two types of authentication, digest and basic, let you control access to
protected media.
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Server-side playlists:
You can stream a set of media files as if it were a live broadcast. This
can be ideal for creating and managing a virtual radio or television station.
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Relay support:
You can easily set up several layers of servers to broadcast streams to a
virtually unlimited number of clients.
QTSS and DSS 4.1 added these features:
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Support for Instant-On:
Viewers with a broadband connection watching a streaming
video with QuickTime 6 and later will benefit from Instant-On, an advance in Apple skip-
protection technology (patent pending) that dramatically improves the viewing
experience by playing video and audio streams instantaneously.
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Integrated Broadcaster administration:
A new dialog linked from the General Settings
page provides an easy way to set up or change the user name and password for
QuickTime Broadcaster. A Broadcast Settings pane allows remote operation of QuickTime
Broadcaster (on Mac OS X Server version 10.2 or later).
For More Information
Additional QuickTime streaming resources are available. These include classes, mailing lists,
and frequently asked questions (FAQs).
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The QuickTime Streaming Server product page
(http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/qtss/) provides the latest information on
key features, recent downloads, and minimum requirements, with links to additional
support pages.
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The public source web site (http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/streaming/)
provides access to Darwin Streaming Server source code as well as access to the public
Concurrent Version System (CVS) archive and developer information. Be sure to read the
FAQs linked from this page.
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The Mac OS X Server AppleCare support page (http://www.info.apple.com/usen/
macosxserver/) provides links to many useful Knowledge Base articles on all of the
services that ship with Mac OS X Server, including QuickTime Streaming Server and
Apache. It also provides links to downloadable PDFs of
Getting Started With Mac OS X
Server
and
Mac OS X Server Administrator’s Guide.
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