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
82 Index
MPEG-4 16
QuickTime. See QuickTime Player
PlaylistBroadcaster process 48
playlistname.err file 26–27
playlists 34–37
access to 40
broadcasting prerecorded media with 34
creating 35–36
deleting 36
described 34
editing 36
links to 33
looping 47
movie 27
MP3. See MP3 playlists
MPEG-4 35–36
names 34
preparing prerecorded media for 27–28
problems with 48–49
relaying broadcasts 35
removing items from 35
server-side 13
settings 34–35
starting 35, 46
stopping 35
playlists log 26–27, 35, 48
“Play Mode” setting 34
PLS metafiles 33
plug-ins, QuickTime 9, 47
port 80, streaming over 18, 25, 45, 61
ports
base 38
Firewire 56
UDP 38
used by QTSS/DSS 61
Power Mac G3 17
Power Mac G4 17
preferences 52
prerecorded media 27–28
presentations, streaming 55–67
presets directory 23
problems. See troubleshooting
proxies 43
Q
qtaccess file 40–41, 43–44
qtgroups file 39, 42
QTSS. See QuickTime Streaming Server
qtusers file 41
QuickTime Broadcaster
See also broadcasts
controlling remotely 23–24
described 12
live audio/video setup 9
live presentations 57
non-headless mode 24
obtaining 16, 64
presets 23, 24
QTSS/DSS and 9
remote control of 16
requirements for 17–18
setting up 16, 64–65
streaming presentations 56
video capture 17
web site 16, 64
QuickTime client software 16
“QuickTime for the Web” 14
QuickTime Instructional web site 14
QuickTime movie log 26
QuickTime movies
See also movies
exporting 28
exporting as hinted movies 29–30
sample 19
self-contained 28
QuickTime payload encoder 30
QuickTime Player
described 12
exporting QuickTime movies as hinted
movies 30
viewing media from clients 31
viewing movies 19
viewing streamed media on 9
QuickTime plug-in 9, 47
QuickTime Pro
described 12
included with “QuickTime for the Web” 14
QuickTime product suite 11
QuickTime Services web site 14
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