Like many others Mac users, I was curious about QTSS3 Preview decided to downloaded it. you can get QTSS3PR at:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/preview/qtss.html . After downloading and installing it, I was able to set up a simple stream from my iMac to a PC -- both computers have 56K modems! This technology absolutely rules!
From other users post, I can see people are having problems installing and setting up QTSS3PR, and it really isn't that hard. First of all, anyone can set up QTSS3PR (once you have OS X off course) -- even if you have only one computer. Once you download in install the file, you will notice that nothing happened, as their aren't any new applications in the Application folder! But QTSS3PR was installed, and is currently running. The stuff it installs are located here:
/usr/sbin/QuickTimeStreamingServer - Streaming Server app
/usr/local/bin/streamingadminserver.pl - QTSS Web Admin server
/usr/sbin/StreamingServerModules/ - Dir for QTSS plugins
/etc/streaming/ - Dir for QTSS config files
/Library/QuickTimeStreaming/Movies/ - Dir for media files
/Library/QuickTimeStreaming/Logs/ - Dir for logs
If you actually read the installation file, you'll see that the next step is to connect you port 1220 of your server (http://myserver:1220). But most of us don't have our own servers (or more importantly, a static IP address).
So what we are going to do is to connect to our own computer, by using the Network control panel to 'fool' the web browser into going to an address (127.0.0.1), which OS X is configured to be itself. Most UNIX's (like Linux) come set up this way, but OS X did not. Open System Preferences > Network > TCP/IP. If necessarily, unlock it so you can make changes. Next choose "Manually" from the "Configure" menu. Enter 127.0.0.1 for the IP Address and Router. Enter 255.255.255.0 for the Subnet Mast. You can leave "localhost" as the host name if you want. Next set "Configure DNS:" to Automatically. Click Apply and reboot your Mac. When you reboot, open IE or any other CARBON or COCOA (Omniweb) browser and point it to "http://127.0.0.1:1220/" and volia!!!! You'll see the web-based interface, and can continue to configure QTSS3PR.
Go ahead, have some fun with QTSS3, yes , really, have fun.
When your ready to un-install QTSS3 for what ever reason you have to do a number of things. If you click the stop in the top right of the web-based interface, this will make the server idle, _but_ will not actually top the 2 QuicktimeServer processes (take a look in ProcessViewer). You can kill them each time you start up OS X, but there's a better solution.
First of all, log in as root. then use the Finder and go to /etc (choose "Go to folder" in the "Go" menu, then use the pull down menu to get to /etc). Double click on the file "hostconfig", TextEdit will open. Look for "QTSSERVER=-YES-", and change that to "QTSSERVER=-NO-" This will stop the QuicktimeServer software from automatically starting. Next go to [OS X Disk]/System/Library/StartupItems/ and remove/delete the QuicktimeServer folder, and that's it. Optionally you can go through your file system and delete all the files/folders listed above.
Hope you enjoyed my very short tutorial on QuickTime Streaming Server 3 Public Preview. If you need more help, please post!
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