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
Setup Example 65
3 Click Broadcast and, if necessary, start QTSS using Streaming Server Admin from the
laptop’s browser by typing in the browser window
http://streamingserverip:1220
where streamingserverip is the IP address of the streaming server.
Then enter the user name and password and click Start Server.
To find out if the live stream can be seen from a client, open QuickTime Player on one of the
client computers and do the following:
1 Choose Open URL in New Player from the File menu.
2 Enter the Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) URL displayed in the Location section of
the QuickTime Broadcaster window (for example,
rtsp://myserver.com/mystream.sdp).
Note: The URL is case-sensitive and must be entered exactly as displayed in the QuickTime
Broadcaster window.
The live stream should start playing in QuickTime Player.
Step 6: Test Your Setup
The last step is to test the setup. This should be done as realistically as possible.
m Set up your equipment just as it will be used for the live presentation, if possible in the
actual location to be used.
m Ask a colleague to stand in for the presenter, or better yet, have the presenter take part in
the test, making it a “dress rehearsal.”
m Check the video image and the sound.
m Check that clients both on the local network and on the Internet can tune in to the live
stream.
m Adjust the camera and microphone positions and lighting as necessary and troubleshoot
any other problems.
Creating a Web Page for Easy Access
Enabling access from a web page eliminates the cumbersome process for students of
remembering the RTSP URL and names of the streaming server and SDP files.
In our example setup, the web page can be added to the existing university web site, but it can
reside on any web server. Then students can access the live presentation (and the archived
presentations, too) by simply clicking on links that show up in their browser windows.
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