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42 Chapter 4 Managing Your Media With QTSS Publisher

Here is an overview of the main QTSS Publisher window:

About Playlists and Hinting

You can add media and MP3 files to the QTSS Publisher library to prepare them for

streaming or to create playlists from them.

A playlist is a set of media files (QuickTime movies, 3GP, MPEG-4 files, or MP3 audio

tracks) that you choose and arrange. You can create a virtual “radio station” or a

simulated live video broadcast by creating a playlist (or a series of playlists) of

prerecorded QuickTime media, MPEG-4, 3GP, or MP3 files. The playlists broadcast the

media to the streaming server, which sends the media to users who request it, in the

sequence you set up (random or ordered). Although the media is prerecorded, it

appears to users as a live broadcast; all users see and hear the same thing when they

tune in to the broadcast. Listeners can tune in to a video broadcast on the web and to

an MP3 playlist using iTunes or another compatible streaming MP3 player.

Before you stream a movie (a 3GP, .mov, or .MP4 file), it must be hinted. Hint tracks

contain information the streaming server needs to stream the media properly; they

allow the streaming server to stream QuickTime movies without having to understand

QuickTime media types or codecs. QTSS Publisher automatically adds hint tracks to the

items in a playlist as needed. (MP3 playlists don’t need to be hinted.)

Note: You can set up QuickTime Pro to export a QuickTime movie with all the

necessary hint tracks.

Individual media files

appear here.

Specify custom image

for movie.

The Library contains all

the media files on the

server.

Specify webpage

caption and custom

HTML source.

Playlists and webpages

you create appear here.

Click to create new

playlists or a webpage.

Specify Instant On

settings here.

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