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
Index 79
QuickTime Broadcaster and 64
streaming presentations 56
E
eMac 17
EMBED tag 32
Error.log file 26
error code 401 42
error code 404 47
error code 415 48
error code 453 48
error code 454 48
error code –5420 48
error log 26
“Error Log” setting 26
errors
See also troubleshooting
access 26
listed 47–48
server busy 25
while streaming media 47–48
Ethernet cards 60
Ethernet connections 58, 60
events, live 8
exporting items
files as movies 29
QuickTime movies 28
QuickTime movies as hinted movies 29–30
F
file formats
streaming 28–29
files
access 40–41
exporting as movies 29
hinting 28–29
MP3 19, 27, 28, 48
MPEG-1 47
MPEG-4 12, 16
SDP. See SDP files
firewalls 43, 45, 60–61
Firewire output 63
Firewire ports 56
Firewire technology 17
G
general settings 24–25
“Genre” setting 35
group file 41, 42–43
groups 41, 42
H
hard disk space 17, 59–60, 67
hardware requirements 16–18, 59–60
headphone jack 63
headphones 63
help, online 22
hinted files 28–29, 48
hinted movies
exporting QuickTime movies as 29–30
performance 30
hinted MPEG-1 files 47
hinting
MP3 files and 27
purpose of 28
uses for 29
hint tracks 29–30
hostname 22
HREF attribute 32
HTTP connections 12, 45, 47
HTTP downloads 48
HTTP traffic 61
HTTP URL 31
HUP signal 52
I
IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) 14
iMac 17
iMovie 66–67
compressing/encoding DV footage 67
live presentations 57
instant-on streaming 13, 16, 27
Internet, multimedia sent over 9
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) 14
Internet Explorer 21
IP addresses
binding QTSS/DSS to 50
source computer 37
Streaming Server Admin 22, 49–50
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