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 Finally, restart Streaming Server Admin by entering the following:
streamingadminserver.pl
How do I get QTSS to re-read its preferences without killing or
restarting the server?
One way to do this is to use Streaming Server Admin. Using your web browser, go to http://
qtss.domain.com:1220, for example, and stop and start the streaming server via the web
interface. If you use this method, currently connected users will be disconnected.
Alternatively, you can send the child process of QuickTimeStreamingServer an HUP (-1)
signal. Currently connected users will not be disconnected, but this method is a little trickier.
You must be logged in as root to perform this task.
To get QTSS to re-read its preferences:
1 Open the Terminal application in the Finder and enter the following:
ps -ax | grep QuickTimeStreamingServer
Text similar to the following should appear:
949 ?? Ss 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/QuickTimeStreamingServer
950 ?? S 0:00.13 /usr/sbin/QuickTimeStreamingServer
965 std S+ 0:00.00 grep QuickTimeStreamingServer
2 Find the larger of the two process IDs (PIDs) for the QuickTimeStreamingServer processes.
In this case, it is
950.
3 To send an HUP signal to this child process, enter the following:
kill -HUP 950
How do I configure QTSS to host streams from multiple user media
directories?
QuickTime Streaming Server can have one only main media directory. However, you can
create symbolic links within this directory. This allows users to have read/write access to
their own secure streaming media folders and to access the streams via RTSP (Real-Time
Streaming Protocol) from a single QTSS media folder. Also, users do not need read/write
access to the main QuickTime Streaming Server Movies directory (/Library/
QuickTimeStreaming/Movies/).
You need to be logged in as the administrator to create these links.
Here’s a simple way to configure the QTSS media directory so that multiple users (user1,
user2, and user3, for example) have write access to their own independent movie directories:
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