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 53
To configure QTSS to host streams from multiple media directories:
1 For each individual user, make a local movie library in each user’s home directory. For
example:
/Users/user1/Movies/
/Users/user2/Movies/
/Users/user3/Movies/
2 Set each directory to be owned by its user, and give each user read/write access to his or her
own files.
3 In your QTSS media directory, create symbolic links that point to each user’s private movie
directory. For example, in Terminal, enter:
cd /Library/QuickTimeStreaming/Movies
ln -s /Users/user1/Movies user1
ln -s /Users/user2/Movies user2
ln -s /Users/user3/Movies user3
This will produce the following:
/Library/QuickTimeStreaming/Movies/user1 -> /Users/user1/Movies
/Library/QuickTimeStreaming/Movies/user2 -> /Users/user2/Movies
/Library/QuickTimeStreaming/Movies/user3 -> /Users/user3/Movies
4 Ask users to upload their hinted QuickTime movies to their own movie directories. For
example:
/Users/user1/Movies/sample.mov
/Users/user2/Movies/test_abc.mov
/Users/user3/Movies/xyz.mov
Users can use RTSP URLs such as the following to stream movies from each user’s private
movie directory:
rtsp://qtss.domain.com/user1/sample.mov
rtsp://qtss.domain.com/user2/test_abc.mov
rtsp://qtss.domain.com/user3/xyz.mov
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