OK, so you don’t necessarily call rtsp on Ubuntu QuickTime Streaming Server. Instead, you call it Darwin Streaming Server (DSS). But the end result is basically what you have exposed in Mac OS X Server, but running on Linux. You don’t have the same functionality in Server Admin, but it does work. And the key to what it does is use the rtsp protocol to stream supported files from the server to clients. It is a little tougher than just clicking on the start button, but too much tougher provided you follow these directions (thanks to the good folks of the DSS list that I’ve been a member of for…
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Hey Snow Leopard, Where's My QuickTime Broadcaster
As you may have noticed, I’m posting a lot about where tools have moved or what happened to them right now. Next on my list is QuickTime Broadcaster. It’s no longer included in Mac OS X client. So to install it, go to the /Applications folder on Mac OS X Server 10.6. I’ll try and put future items into a single post so as not to pollute news readers out there. Thanks for the patience.
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Password Protecting QuickTime Streams
Password protecting QuickTime Streaming Server is a bit different than password protecting most other Mac OS X services. For starters, you should define a local QTSS Users file and a local Groups file. for the server. You can do so using /Library/QuickTimeStreaming/Config/qtusers and /Library/QuickTimeStreaming/Config/qtgroups respectively. Each user can be defined in the qtusers file and each group in the qtgroups file should contain the pertinent users on a line with the name of the group, followed by a colon (:) followed by the users that make up the group. In order to password protect a stream served by Quick Time Streaming Server you will then need to create a text…