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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3 If the playlist is running, click the Stop button.
4 Click Delete Playlist.
Relays
This section provides detailed information on setting up relays and working with relay
settings, using Streaming Server Admin.
Working With Relay Settings
Relays are used to accept a stream from one streaming server and send the stream on, or
“relay” it, to another streaming server. You set up relays using the Relay Settings pane in
Streaming Server Admin.
To see the Relay Settings pane, click Relay Settings.
The “Default Relay” relays all incoming broadcasts that are automatically announced to the
streaming server to one or more destinations. The default relay is set up just like any other
relay except there are no source settings. The default relay appears in the Relay Status pane
with the name ***qtssDefaultRelay***. The default relay can accept only forwarded media
streams using the RTSP announce protocol. UDP streams are not supported.
“Status: _ Enabled” instructs the server to relay any broadcast that is announced to it as soon
as the relay is saved.
“Relay Name” is used to identify the relay in Relay Settings and in the Relay Status pane.
“Source Hostname or IP Address” is the DNS hostname or IP address of the source
computer.
“Mount Point” is the name of the source that needs to be relayed. For example, if you want to
relay the incoming broadcast announced as “birthdayceleb.sdp,” the mount point is set to
birthdayceleb.sdp. You could also relay a source acquired by acting as a client and requesting
it from the source server. In this case, the mount point must be the URL of the resource
to acquire.
“Request incoming stream” directs the streaming server to send a request to the source
computer for the incoming stream before it gets relayed. This feature can be used to relay a
reflected live broadcast (from another server). It can also be used to request a stored file and
turn it into an outgoing live stream.
In any of these fields, “User Name/Password” is used if the source or destination computers
require automatic broadcasts to be authenticated with a name and password.
“Wait for announced stream(s)” directs the server to wait for the incoming stream and then
relay it. Relays set to wait for announced streams can accept only media streams using the
RTSP announce protocol. User Datagram Protocol (UDP) streams are not supported.
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