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
32 Chapter 2
3 Enter the URL for the media file (for example: rtsp://myserver.com/mymedia).
4 Replace myserver.com with the DNS name of your streaming server computer, and mymedia
with the name of your hinted movie or media file. This URL assumes that the movie or media
file is located at the top level of your media directory. For movies in subfolders within the
media directory, add the folder to the path name. For example:
rtsp://myserver.com/myfolder/mymedia.mov
If you want users to view streamed media through a web browser, you must set up a web
page to show the media. Then give users the URL of the web page.
Do not attempt to view media in a web browser by typing an RTSP URL directly into the web
browser’s address field.
Setting Up a Web Page With Streamed Media
To embed streaming media in a web page, you use the HTML EMBED tag. For complete
documentation on the features and use of the EMBED tag, go to www.apple.com/quicktime/
authoring/embed.html
The following example places a graphical link to a movie, “sample.mov,” on a web page. (You
can rename the sample movie that comes with QuickTime and use it for the example.) When
a user clicks the link, the movie will start streaming in QuickTime Player.
<HTML>
<BODY>
This is a sample use of the EMBED tag.<BR>
<EMBED SRC="http://my.webserver.com/linkimage.mov" width="150"
height="64" href="rtsp://my.streamingserver.com/sample.mov"
target="QuickTimePlayer">
</BODY>
</HTML>
The URL specified in the SRC attribute is a link to a still image that has been exported as a
nonhinted QuickTime movie, “linkimage.mov.” This image file serves as the link to the
streaming movie. The width and height attributes specify the width and height of the image
area. The HREF attribute is the URL for the streaming movie that will start playing when the
image is clicked.
To let users view streaming media from a web page, create a reference movie that contains a
streaming track with an RTSP URL that points to the media on your streaming server. Store
the reference movie in the same directory as your web site and include a link to the
reference movie on your web page. For more information on creating a reference movie, go
to developer.apple.com/quicktime/ and click the Tools link. Look for the MakeRefMovie tool
under WebMaster Tools.
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