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
Managing Your Streaming Server 29
To apply hinting and export a file as a movie:
1 Import the file into QuickTime Player by choosing Import from the File menu.
2 Export the file by choosing Export from the File menu.
3 In the “Save exported file as” dialog, choose “Movie to QuickTime Movie” from the Export
pop-up menu, if it’s not already selected, then click the Options button.
4 In the Movie Settings dialog, choose Hinted Streaming from the pop-up menu and click the
Settings button.
Make sure that Make Movie Self-Contained is unchecked.
5 Close each dialog by clicking OK, choose a filename and location, and save the file.
6 Place both the .mov file (containing only the hint tracks) and the original file (containing
only the media data) on your streaming server.
If you have folders inside your media folder, make sure that both files are in the same folder.
For example:
New file with only hint tracks: myfile.mov
Original, non-hinted file: myfile.avi
To stream the original file, use an RTSP (Real-Time Streaming Protocol) URL that references
the hinted “.mov” file.
7 In QuickTime Player, choose “Open URL in New Player” from the File menu, then enter the
following URL:
rtsp://qtss.hostname/myfile.mov
The file should begin streaming. The RTSP URL from the client tells the server to read the
hinted file and directly stream the media data from the .avi file.
Exporting a QuickTime Movie as a Hinted Movie
Hint tracks contain information the streaming server needs to stream the media properly.
Hint tracks allow the streaming server to stream QuickTime movies without having to
understand QuickTime media types or codecs. The server only needs to know the hint track
format. When a new codec must be streamed, typically the server software doesn’t require an
update. Hinting also precomputes packetization rules for some media that normally require
bit-level parsing, interleaving, and so on, relieving the server of this task.
Most authoring applications let you export media as a hinted QuickTime movie. If you have
QuickTime Pro, you can also hint a movie using QuickTime Player. QuickTime Pro is available
for both Mac OS and Windows computers. Check the QuickTime web site for more
information.
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