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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stopping 24
unable to connect to 47
viewing 24
browsers. See web browsers
C
cable modems 33
cameras
DV. See DV camera
tripod 62, 63
video 11
CCDs (charge-coupled devices) 62
certificate file 24, 43
“Change Admin Username/Password” setting 25
“Change Movie Broadcast Password” setting 25
“Change MP3 Broadcast Password” setting 25
charge-coupled devices (CCDs) 62
clean install 15
client computers
access to streaming servers 57
media sent to 9
multicast vs. unicast transport 10
requirements for 16
viewing live streams 65
viewing streamed media 31
codecs 29
command execution, with sudo 44–45
computers
client. See client computers
IP address of 37
multihomed 49–50
source 37
subnets 16
Concurrent Version System (CVS) archive 13
configuring streaming servers 21–22
Connected Users pane 22
connections
broadband 16, 27
broadcast 47
cable modem 33
data rates 33
dropped 48
DSL 33
Ethernet 58, 60
HTTP 12, 45, 47
maximum number of 25, 46, 47, 48
wireless 57
CVS (Concurrent Version System) archive 13
D
Darwin Streaming Server (DSS)
See also streaming servers
administering. See Streaming Server Admin
application
binaries 17
binding to IP address 50
described 12
features 12–13
MP3 files and 28
non-Mac OS X upgrade 16
obtaining 15
problems with 46
QuickTime Broadcaster and 9
requirements for 17
running on non-Mac OS X platforms 16
setting up 15–19
source code 13, 17
support 13
version 4 12–13
version 4.1 13
web site 15, 22
DarwinStreamingServer file 46
data rates 33
“Default Authentication Scheme” setting 25
“Default Relay” setting 37, 46
deleting items
groups 42
playlists 36
SDP files 31
users from user/group file 42
delivery, live 8
delivery, on-demand 8
digest authentication 25, 40
Digitial Subscriber Line (DSL) 33
disk space 17, 59, 67
DNS hostname 37
DSL (Digitial Subscriber Line) 33
DSS. See Darwin Streaming Server
DV camera
live webcasts 62–64
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