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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firewalls 43, 45
Net::SSLeay 43
networks with address translation 45
OpenSSL library 43
passwords. See passwords
proxies 43
resetting Admin user name/password 39
Secure Sockets Layer 43
streaming on port 80 45
user accounts 42–43
“Sequential Looped” mode 34, 49
“Sequential” mode 34
server administrators 18, 25, 40
servers
Apache 15
busy 25, 48
connection dropped 48
maximum throughput of 25
not running 48
remote 16
streaming. See streaming servers
subnets 16
Xserve 16, 17, 56
server-side playlists 13
Session Description Protocol files. See SDP files
skip-protection technology 13, 27
software requirements 16–18, 59
Solaris systems 17
“Source Hostname or IP Address” setting 37
SRC attribute 32
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) 24, 43
SSL certificate 18
“Status: _ Enabled” setting 37
streamed media
controlling access to 40–43
embedding in web pages 32–33
errors during 47–48
live 31
relaying 11
viewing from client computer 31
streaming
See also QuickTime streaming
codecs 29
instant-on 13, 16, 27
live. See live streaming
MP3 12, 48
MPEG-4 12
over port 80 18, 25, 45, 61
overview 7–9
poor performance 47
process for 9–11
quality of 13
real-time 7, 8
streamingadminserver.log file 26
streamingadminserver.pl script 46
streamingadminserver process 51–52
streaming admin server requests log 26
streaming file formats 28–29
streaming files 59
streaming media files 28
streaming movies 28
streaming MP3 playlists 16
streaming MP3 requests log 26
“Streaming on Port 80” setting 25
streaming presentations 55–67
Streaming Proxy settings 46
StreamingServer.log file 26
Streaming Server Admin application 21–27
binding to single IP address 49–50
changing server settings 23
configuring server 21–22
connected users 22–23
controlling QuickTime Broadcaster
remotely 23–24
described 21
general settings 24–25
killing processes 51–52
log settings 25–27
new features 12, 13
password 18, 22, 25, 39
port settings 25
problems with 46
relay settings 37–39
re-reading QTSS preferences 52
resetting user name/password 39
restarting processes 51–52
starting streaming service 22
stopping streaming service 22
streaming server setup 18–19
user name 18, 22, 25, 39
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