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
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Preface
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The QuickTime Streaming course takes an in-depth look at QuickTime Streaming Server
and Darwin Streaming Server by teaching system administrators and QuickTime authors
the details behind real-time streaming. For more information, see the Resources section
of the QuickTime Streaming Server product page
(http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/qtss/).
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The best-selling
QuickTime for the Web
is an excellent hands-on guide. This Apple
QuickTime Developer Series book shows how to integrate video, recorded sound, Flash
animation, virtual reality, MIDI, text, still images, live streams, games, and user interactivity
into a web site. The companion CD-ROM includes QuickTime Pro and a full set of
development tools for both Windows and Macintosh. Published by Morgan Kaufmann,
this award-winning book is featured with other useful titles on the QuickTime
Instructional web site (http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tools_tips/books.html). Get the
third edition for the most up-to-date information.
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The Apple Discussions area within the AppleCare support web site
(http://discussions.info.apple.com/) provides a community posting location for
QuickTime Streaming Server issues. Navigate to the Mac OS X Server section and then
to QuickTime Streaming Server. You can post messages and view posts from other
registered users.
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Apple hosts many mailing lists (http://lists.apple.com) including lists for streaming server
users and developers. Actively followed by Apple engineers, these lists are an excellent
resource for novice and advanced users alike. If you want to subscribe, click “Lists hosted
on this site,” and then click “streaming-server users” or “streaming-server developers,”
and sign up. You can also search through the archives of both lists.
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The QuickTime Services web site (http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tools_tips/services/)
lists streaming service providers. Apple partners listed provide services ranging from
content delivery and encoding to authoring and webcasting.
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If you are an advanced user, you may want to review the Request for Comments (RFC)
memorandums on the RTP and RTSP standards by visiting the web site of the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF). For RTP, the web address is
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1890.txt. For RTSP, it is http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2326.txt.
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