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
70 Glossary
broadcast user A user who has permission to broadcast to the streaming server. The
broadcast user name and password are set in the General Settings pane of Streaming Server
Admin and are used in conjunction with announced broadcasts. It is not necessary to create
a broadcast user for UDP broadcasts.
browser plug-in Software that you attach to a browser to enable it to display specific data
formats.
byte Eight bits.
C
client The user-side software or computer used to display streaming media.
codec Any technology for compressing and decompressing data. Codecs can be
implemented in software, hardware, or a combination of both.
CVS Concurrent Versions System, a programming code management system.
D, E
data rate Amount of information per second.
DNS (Domain Name Service) A service that translates host names to IP addresses.
DSL (digital subscriber line) A broadband data transmission technology that operates
over telephone lines.
DV (digital video) A digital tape-recording format using approximately 5:1 compression to
produce Betacam quality on a very small cassette.
F, G
firewall Software that protects the network applications and networking stack of a server.
IP Firewall service, which is part of Mac OS X Server software, scans incoming IP packets and
rejects or accepts these packets based on a set of filters you create.
FireWire A hardware technology for exchanging data with peripheral devices, defined by
IEEE Standard 1394. Also called iLink.
frame A single image in a movie or sequence of images.
frame rate In a movie, the number of frames per second.
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) A protocol that allows computers to transfer files over a
network. FTP clients using any operating system that supports FTP can connect to a file
server and download files, depending on their access privileges. Most Internet browsers and
a number of freeware applications can be used to access an FTP server.
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