QTSS to APple TV?

Can I use QuickTime Streaming Server on my Mac OS X Server to stream video to my ATV2?

I use iTunes to stream movies to my ATV2. For this I have a permanently logged in account on my OS X Server that is just there to run iTunes and serve as media hub for other computers (and ATV2). The problem I was facing was that I want part of this media library (music) backed up (via CrashPlan) or replicated to my MBA for usage on the road, and another part (movies, like what I recorded with my PVR) should not be replicated to the MBA (size constraints) or end up in the backup (they are only temporarily useful, e.g. recorded TV programs). So, I was looking for a way to stream movies to ATV2 without using iTunes, because I wanted this 'split' in iTunes and I did not want to create yet another account on the server just for the movies.
As it turns out, I can add stuff to iTunes and then relocate them to another place on my HD. Option-dragging the stuff to iTunes does not work (because that results in entries I cannot edit genre etc.), but if I relocate them via iTunes, they become full citizens in my iTunes Library. So, now I can do it with one iTunes account and two physical locations.

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Quicktime 7.2 Pro just updated errors

i have Quicktime Version 7.2.0, Quicktime Player version 7.2 (7.2) i have a pro serial key i purchased.
well im not 100% certain its an error as opposed to maybe certain videos ...but iam unable to save alot of Quicktime videos by selecting the arrow on the right side of the quicktime mov. some i can some i cant, both in firefox and safari.
i tried a few from the apple trailer site, some allow me to and alot dont. i tried a few sites that i frequent and sites i make myself and wont allow me to save them.
i was wondering
do i need a new serial key for quicktime for 7.2 then?
thank you in advanced.
ps. apologize if its in the wrong forum.

AppleNewton,
I believe you are talking about streamed movies; IOW, movies streamed in (near) real-time from some server to your computer as they play (typically in a browser window) instead of first downloaded as a file & then opened in a player application. These are the movies that optionally allow you to save them with the popup menu in the lower right corner of the QT window.
If so, first note that not all movies can be streamed using QuickTime. They must first be prepared for that by including certain "hints." This can be done for some formats with QT Pro. For help with this, open Quicktime Player's help & search on "stream" for a number of help topics related to this. You will also find a lot of useful info at Apple - QuickTime - Tutorials.
As you will learn, you will also need access to a server with streaming software to stream your movies. QuickTime Streaming Server (QTSS), included with Mac OS X Server, is one example. Darwin Streaming Server (DSS) is a free alternative, although not as user-friendly or complete as the version in Apple's server OS version.
The server is primarily what determines if the streamed movie can be downloaded after viewing or not. It is not simple to explain how to set this up. You may find the QTSS Administration Guide (a PDF file) a good way to learn about this.
QTSS makes administration of a streaming server easy. Read about QTSS at Apple - QuickTime - Streaming Server. If you use DSS, it is harder because there is no GUI. Open Source - Server - Streaming Server is a good place to start if you want to understand how to use DSS.
If your group's server is OS X based, it probably uses one or the other of these streaming servers. If it is based on another platform, DSS or some other software may be used. The server administrator should be able to tell you about this.
For your own web pages, you may want to consider the HTTP download method instead. Read about this in Quicktime Player's help topic, "Preparing Movies for Internet Delivery" & the three associated topics at the bottom of that topic. You do not need access to a streaming server for this.
FWIW, I've set up DSS on my local household network, using my iMac G5 as the server. This allows me to stream movies from the G5 to other household Macs. This is particularly interesting when combined with QuickTime Broadcaster for creating "live" broadcasts.

Loading video to website from apple Quick Time Streaming Servers (QTSS)

Is anyone currently doing this? What advantage does it have for videos on websites?
Thanks

If you're talking about just using the DVD as a storage medium to be played on a computer thru QuickTime Player, the drawback I see is the bitrate or bandwidth requirement staying within the ability of the DVD drive to spin it out. Other than that, does a CD have enough storage for the size of your file? Reading off a CD is generally faster.
As to a website, a .mov file will play properly, A .mp4 doesn't always invoke the Quicktime player...
Or am I misunderstanding you?
Patrick

Updated to 10.3.9, QTSS will not start

A year after updating my OS X Server 10.3 to its final version release, QTSS still refuses to start. Server Admin, either at the colo or on a remote desktop, yields no error message.
I've been content producing fast-start 3 minute .mp4 and .m4v downloads w/ FCP5 and QT7 Pro, so I haven't really missed streaming, but now I want it back for long form web videos.
With OS X Server 10.1, .html files enabled remote or in situ setup and launch of QTSS and those files can still be found on my 10.3 Library, but they now appear corrupted. For example, attempting to launch the QTSS Admin index.html file yields the error, "NO FILE EXISTS: /parse_xml.cgi" though it is right there as a peer in the folder" Dropping the start up .html folder into Safari displays two unlabelled text form boxes (presumably user name and password) with a form button with html tags, clearly a corrupted value.
So, if the mere html files in QTSS are corrupted, no wonder there's something funky going on under the covers for the QTSS GUI in Server Admin.
My question is not limited to whether anyone else has experienced this after the ultimate OS X 10.3 upgrade and what's the solution, but also whether Apple has a standalone QTSS installer which can restore the functionality I enjoyed beforehand. It would be a burden with all the websites and users I have configured to start over from scratch...especially since there's no guarantee the same fall down in QTSS's ability to start up would happen again once I upgrades to 10.3.9.
any help?

Success. I discovered the issue that was preventing QTSS start up.
The IP Bind tab listed a set of new Class C IP addresses that ARIN forced us to move to last year and which had been properly configured into our network and I had checked the matching address shared in our new web server config.
However /library/quicktimestreaming/config/streamingserver.xml had not exterminated the obsolete address and I pico'ed in the Terminal to replace these lines
<LIST-PREF NAME="bindipaddr" >
<VALUE>old ip</VALUE>
<VALUE>new ip</VALUE>
</LIST-PREF>
with this line, which will now overide whatever's poking in the old ip, probably one of those pesky permanently-burned Net Info DB's that can't be purged despite the reality that servers sometimes need wholesale refreshes to be re-networked:
<PREF NAME="bindipaddr" >new ip</PREF>

What happened to QTSS Publisher?!?! What's the new workflow?

Hello everyone,
At my the art college I work at, I administer some HDTV's that run from Mac Mini's that load QTSS Playlists from the QTSS Server as .sdp files.
Or at least I DID until we upgraded to Leopard Server 10.5, which promised better performance when streaming HD content.
Three different TV's (on 3 dif mini's, with 3 dif .sdp's) used to stream .sdp Playlists made in the program QTSS Publisher. It's kind of like iTunes for QT video files. But now that the server is 10.5, the client can't see the server and there is no new client to download.
My video students and I would be very grateful if anyone could point me to the workflow that is supposed to replace QTSS Publisher.
What do you do with 10.5 Server when you want to concurrently stream different playlists of 20 successive videos, each?

Command-F3 See:
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306169>

The screen size is too small on the webpage created by QTSS publisher

Hello,
I published a video file using QTSS publisher.
I'm using "Publish media to Quick Time Streaming Server (instant-on) and Webpage action "Auto-play in Web page".
The screen size is fine when playing via the streaming link but when I create an actual webpage using QTSS publisher and dropping the movie file to that webpage, the screen size is extremely small while playing. Is there a way to make the playing screen size bigger in the webpage?
The html looks like this:
<object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" width="640" height="304" codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab">
<param name="SRC" value="http://domain:80/qtmedia/shoot_s.mov">
<param name="TYPE" value="video/quicktime">
<param name="AUTOPLAY" value="true">
<param name="CONTROLLER" value="true">
<embed src="http://domain:80/qtmedia/shoot_s.mov" type="video/quicktime" width="640" height="304" autoplay="true" controller="true" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/">
</embed>
</object>
PPC 10.4 Mac OS X (10.4.9) enabled streaming on port 80
PPC 10.4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

There wasn't an option on sizing when creating the webpage using QTSS publisher. Does it need to be manually edited?
The webpage created by QTSS publisher:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>shoot</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<link href="includes/modern.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<script src="includes/AC_QuickTime.js" language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
<table width="692" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" background="images/background.gif" align="center">
<tr>
<td></td><td></td><td width="10"></td><td valign="top" align="right"></td><td valign="top" align="right"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="10"></td><td colspan="3" width="672">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<tr>
<td hieght="12"></td><td valign="top" align="right"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="content">
shoot
</td><td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td hieght="12"></td><td valign="bottom" align="right"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td><td valign="top" align="right"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="10"></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td>
</tr>
<tr><tr><td></td><td>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" background="images/background.gif" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<tr>
<td colspan="3" width="129" height="96"><script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
QTWriteOBJECT("http://domain:80/qtmedia/shoots.mov", '129', '96', '', 'target', 'myself', 'type', 'video/quicktime', 'autoplay', 'true', 'controller', 'true', 'scale', 'aspect', 'bgcolor', '#CCCCCC');
</script></td><td width="202" class="content" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"></td><td align="right" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="68"></td><td width="56" height="36" background="images/number-box.gif">01</td><td width="5"></td><td bgcolor="#404040">shoot.mov
2:03 / NaN kb/sec</td><td align="right" valign="bottom" bgcolor="#404040"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td><td width="10"></td><td width="353"></td><td valign="bottom" align="right"></td></tr><tr>
<td height="10"></td><td></td><td></td><td valign="bottom" align="right"></td><td></td>
</tr>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td><td>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<tr>
<td width="10"></td><td></td><td></td><td valign="top" align="right"></td>
</tr>
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<td></td><td></td><td>For optimal viewing experience,
please download
QuickTime 6</td><td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td><td></td><td></td><td valign="bottom" align="right"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td><td valign="bottom" align="right"></td><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" valign="top" align="left"></td><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="10"></td><td valign="bottom" align="right"></td><td></td><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"></td><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
PPC 10.4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Quicktime QTSS broadcast-how do I add it to my website

I am broadcasting a QTSS stream from my server that apparently can only be viewed by going into quicktime player and the using the Open URL window and entering the link rtsp://mywebpage.org/Link4.sdp.
Unfortunately I have not been able to figure out a way to enable people to listen to the broadcast from my iweb page.
Has anyone figured out how to either change the broadcast to something more iweb friendly or have a way for people to open it by clicking in a link? as right now I cannot get it to work.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
AJ

My effort was to point out that it's not an iWeb issue and that you should focus on how to embed the stream in a webpage.
ANY webpage made with ANY application.
You also posted in the QuickTime forum. Which is more logical.
So focus on the real issue : how to embed a QT stream in a webpage.
Don't mention the name of the applacation. It's irrelevant.
BTW, [here's the manual|http://images.apple.com/server/macosx/docs/QTSSand_Broadcasting_Adminv10.5.pdf]
On page 68 is the explanation what code to use.
No mention is made of iWeb.

How do I Manage media for QTSS without QTSS Publisher?

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!

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.

QTSS won't recognize reference movie

I have uploaded a reference movie (which contains links to alternate movies) that to a Quicktime Streaming Server directory.
When I open the URL in Quicktime Player 7, I get an 'unsupported media type 415' error. If I upload the reference movie to a folder on my web site instead, the appropriate video will start to stream. However, QT Player 'thinks' it is a live broadcast.
Something still isn't right.
* ALL files in the folder within the QTSS directory have hinted tracks.
* the non-referenced movies on the QTSS all play when the URLs are opened in QT Player7.
* the reference movie, which is supposed to call the appropriate movie for streaming, reports 'unsupported media type 415' error when I try to open the URL in Quicktime Player 7.
* the reference movie, which is supposed to call the appropriate movie for streaming, works fine when I open the file on my hard drive, i.e. it starts playing the appropriate file from the streaming server (I used absolute URLs)
* the reference movie, which is supposed to call the appropriate movie for streaming, works fine if I upload it to a directory on my web site (http) instead of a directory on the streaming server (rtsp).
I used MakeRefMovieX to make the reference movie. To keep things simple, I did not flatten a default movie into the reference movie.
The Apple tuorial for reference movies says:
Save the reference movie and place it and all the alternate movies in the same directory. Upload the directory or folder to the server.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/refmovies.html
Another tutorial says:
http://www.iupui.edu/~nmstream/tutorials/quicktimevideo.php
FTP this file to your streaming server and ideally place it under the same folder that holds the streaming video files.

To get the captioned text to appear BELOW the movie,
do you simply adjust the coordinates for the text box
in the text file before adding it to the reference
movie?
Hi Cris
Well the answer is yes and no, yes you do have to set the coordinates of both the movie and the text, but these are controlled by a third file known as a .smil file.
Here's how you make it all work, (all these documents are located on the http server, in the same directory together, with the exception of the http document, which can be located in a different folder if you choose:
Documents involved are:
http web page, with QT java code embedded in it, http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/embed.html
.smil file, which contains the window size, movie and captioning text file.
.mov or text file, containing the captioning text only, with timecode reference as part of the file.
MSTR.mov, also know as the reference movie, containing the alternate movie locations.
You need to create an http document with the QT java code embedded in it, the window size, which needs to be able to accommodate the movie window, the text window and if you choose the movie control bar, which is controlled via java code, which references the .smil file.
When a patron opens this document, this sends a request to the .smil file, which is located in the same directory as the MSTR.mov, (ref movie) as well as the .txt or .mov text file. The .smil file then contains all of the information that controls over all window size of the displayed parts, MSTR.mov, (ref movie) and text or .mov text file.
You may wonder why the window size is in both the http document as well as the .smil file, this is because the http document is making a hole for the .smil file to be displayed in the http document and the window size in the .smil file is for combining all the independent files or as you put it, coordinates for each part. These appear in the hole, created in the http documents QT java script window size, (think of the http document as the mask for the .smil file.)
When the .smil file is accessed, the reference movie contacts the QT RTSP streaming server, then places the movie and text, (captioning file) together and are sent to the http document where they are viewed as a unified web page.
The .smil file has specific code and can be found here: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/quicktime/Conceptual/QTScripting_SMIL/i ndex.html
When I get back to work on Monday, (if you need me to) I can post you both the java scripting we use in our web pages and the .smil coding in our .smil files.

Where is QTSS Publisher in 10.5 Server?

From the Streaming Server FAQ:http://www.apple.com/quicktime/streamingserver/faq.html
"QTSS Publisher comes installed on Mac OS X Server in the /Applications/Server directory. The application can be installed on other Mac OS X computers by simply copying it to those machines; no installer is required. QTSS Publisher is also available on the Mac OS X Server v10.4 Admin Tools CD."
No such application exists in the /Applications/Server/ directory in v10.5...and it's not on the Admin Tools CD, either. Does Publisher not exist anymore after v10.4, or has it moved to where I can't find it?

The program was REMOVED from Mac OS 10.5 Server.
But the functionality still remains in an HTML WEB INTERFACE.
First turn on web admin access in the Server Admin app, then you need to ascertain the network address of your Streaming Server, then launch Safari and enter it:
172.xxx.xxx.xxx
with ":1220" at the end, like so:
http://172.xxx.xxx.xxx:1220/
Then you can log in with the web admin password you set in Server Admin, setup Playlists and everything else.
It's weird that they just killed this with no word, but it's okay. QTSS Publisher was buggy never worked well to begin with. The web interface is good at catching problems and alerting you instead of just immediately crashing.
Good luck.

Repairing Port 80 after enabling QTSS

I was tinkering around with setting up QTSS on my OSX Server (10.6) and I stupidly clicked on the use Port:80 checkbox. This broke the Web Service on my server. Sadly... Apple did not seem to code anything so that unchecking the box returns port 80 to how it was setup before.
/etc/services seems fine. The /etc/apache/htpd.conf seems unchanged... I can't seem to figure out what was changed...
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I really don't want to have to re-install for such a simple issue. I have tried hunting down changed files on the system but nothing is coming up.

Answer/Fix: When in doubt, reboot.
We'll it seems like if you un-check the box and save your settings then everything is fixed. But you must reboot the server. Restarting QTSS and Apache isn't enough...

QTSS alternative?

Lion Server does not support QuickTime Streaming Server (QTSS).
So what is the alternative please?

Check out Wowza.
Or struggle through this poorly documented (I will admit I have not looked at this in about a year so maybe it is better) alternative https://developer.apple.com/resources/http-streaming/

Webcam streming using QTSS

Hello,
it is possible to setup a webcam streaming using apple QTSS from the server admin?
could some one please guide me through it.
thanks!
Sumomo

You probably should look into QuickTIme Broadcaster instead. If you have a firewire video source, you can stream using this software. It's free, easy to use and streaming can be scheduled using Applescript and iCal events and alarms. It may take a little experimenting to find the right quality/codec settings but you can save a preset when you get it working and it will work every time. I love QuickTime.... I love QuickTime Broadcaster more!

Does QTSS support HTTP Live Streaming?

Hi all,
I'm trying to create a streaming architecture based on HTTP Live Streaming.
Does anyone know if QTSS supports the HTTP Live Streaming?
And if not... is there any server that supports it?
Thanks for the replies.

Unfortunately, QTSS doesn't support HTTP Live Streaming. I wonder why Apple did not implement QTSS in Snow Leopard Server.
However, Helix Universal Server from Real can do the trick.
http://www.realnetworks.com/products-services/helix-server-proxy.aspx

QTSS streams very pixelated

Hello-
We have QTSS running on a 10.5.8 Xserve which hosts streaming media converted using the latest Final Cut Studio. We use 300 kbps h.264 streaming as the compression type. When people go to view the video content, they complain that the video is very pixelated and hard to watch. The video plays fine locally and on the server. We have checked our packet shaper and bandwidth and everything is configured correctly. Has anyone ever run into an issue like this? Any idea?
Thanks

I'm having a similar issue in 10.6.2. If I have high bit rate streams, > approx 6 Mbps, the client video is horrible. It looks like it drops anchor frames. I've tested it with a single stream to a mac on the same gigabit lan. QTSS doesn't show any dropped frames. I've even tried streaming from localhost to QT Player on the Xserve. Same issue. But if I just open the movie file in QT player (not using the server), it plays fine.
I've had the same issue with unicast and multicast from QTB.
Apple Genius recommended I try backing down to 10.5 and see if I still see the issue.
He is supposed to have an answer for me tomorrow. If I get a usable solution, I'll post back.
Basically, I'm trying to encode a 720P live feed to stream from our main sanctuary to overflow rooms at our church for Easter. Projection of feeds will be on large screens, hence the high bitrate.

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