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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2 Enter the URL for your Streaming Server Admin computer. For example:
http://hostname:1220
where hostname is the hostname or IP address of your streaming server computer and
1220 is the port number.
The first time you run Streaming Server Admin, the Setup Assistant prompts you for a user
name and password.
To display online help, click the question mark button in the UI. Information about QTSS and
DSS is also available at the QuickTime web site (www.apple.com/quicktime/products/qtss/)
and the Mac OS X Darwin web site (http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/streaming/).
Viewing Streaming Status
You can view a snapshot of current streaming server activity or see information about
connected users in the Main and Connected Users panes of Streaming Server Admin.
To view streaming server activity:
1 Click Main in Streaming Server Admin.
2 To see information about connected users, click Connected Users in Streaming Server
Admin.
Starting or Stopping Streaming Service
You can start or stop streaming service at any time by clicking the button at the top of the
Streaming Server Admin window.
m To start streaming service, click Start Server.
m To stop streaming service, click Stop Server.
Working With Connected Users
To see the Connected Users pane, click Connected Users in Streaming Server Admin.
In this pane, you can view information about the client users currently connected to your
streaming server. You can display the information in a number of ways using the onscreen
controls.
To change the number of entries displayed, choose a number from the “Display __ entries”
pop-up menu.
To change how often the list is updated, choose a number from the “Page Refresh Interval”
pop-up menu.
To select the sort column, click the column label by which you want to sort the user
information.
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