How do I Manage media for QTSS without QTSS Publisher?

Question

Mac OS X Server Server Administration For Version 10.5 Leopard
p. 49 says:
“Media Streaming Management
QuickTime Streaming and Broadcasting Administration provides instructions for
administering QuickTime Streaming Server (QTSS) using Server Admin.
QuickTime Streaming and Broadcasting Administration also describes QTSS Publisher, an
easy-to-use application for managing media and preparing it for streaming or
progressive download.”
But the manual QuickTime Streaming and Broadcasting Administration For Version 10.5 Leopard
Has no reference whatsoever to “QTSS Publisher” or “Publish”
And the Migrating from Mac OS X Server v10.3 manual
Says on p. 69:
QTSS Publisher Files and Folders
QTSS Publisher has been removed from Mac OS X Server v10.5. However, files created
using QTSS Publisher on v10.4 should continue to work on v10.5.
What gives?
How do I migrate and then upload and manage my QTSS files now? The manuals are vague!

Answer 1

Hi Tom,
I did this last night (literally). Here is what you need to do. I am working under the premise that your current server is a Tiger server. If this is not the case, then you may have to adapt the Tiger server locations I am providing to your version of server.
If you have not tweaked Apple's configuration in any way, your current streaming media files are located in /Library/QuickTimeStreaming/Movies on the Tiger server. You will need to copy these files to the same location on the Leopard server. Next, you will need to set the permissions and ownership of the files you just copied. If you execute the +ls -l+ command from /Library/QuickTimeStreaming/Movies, you will find that the permissions for the stock sample files are -rw-rw-r--, and that the owner:group is +_qtss admin+. So to change your files to match these parameters, execute (as sudo) the chmod command +chmod 644 <filename>+ as well as the chown command +chown _qtss:admin <filename>+. Now when you execute +ls -l+, you should find that the owner, group, and permissions for all the files are the same.
Once that is done, the rest is fairly straightforward per Apple's documentation. One thing I will say, as this burned me last night, is that if you change IPs, and you are also using the Web server component, things will get a bit funky. The files themselves will be fine, but QTSS will become unbound from whatever IP it was set to originally, and Web server will prevent it from starting. You'll have to re-bind QTSS to the appropriate IP (if your server is multihomed), re-enable streaming on port 80 if necessary, start QTSS, then start the Web server.
Good luck! Hopefully through my suffering you will suffer less.