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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m If the media plays once and then stops, make sure the play mode is set to either
Sequential Looped or Weighted Random. If you broadcast the playlist as weighted random
and set a value other than zero for repeated items, make sure the value is less than the
number of media files in the playlist. You must stop and start the broadcast for the
changes to take effect.
m If some media in the playlist are not played, check the weight you have assigned to
each media file in the playlist. You must stop and start the broadcast for the changes to
take effect.
m If a movie playlist isn’t streaming correctly, be sure the content, format, and encoding of
the media are the same for all files in the playlist. Also, make sure users have QuickTime 4
or later installed on their computers.
m If your playlist contains movies with different encodings, the encodings that don’t match
the encoding of the first movie in the playlist (also known as the sdp_reference_movie)
won’t be played. You can play movies with different encodings in the playlist if the first
movie in the playlist contains all the encodings you plan to use.
Advanced
This section answers questions raised by more advanced users.
How do I bind the Streaming Server Admin computer to a single IP
address if my machine is multihomed?
A line in the streamingadminserver.conf file tells the server what IP address it should bind to.
For example, the line
bind=1.2.3.4
tells the server to bind to the local IP address 1.2.3.4.
To specify a single IP address:
1 Log in to the server as an administrator.
2 Open or create the streamingadminserver.conf file. The file is in the following locations:
QTSS 4:
/Library/QuickTimeStreaming/Config/streamingadminserver.conf
DSS 4 ( Windows):
\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\streamingadminserver.conf
DSS 4 (other supported platforms):
/etc/streaming/streamingadminserver.conf
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