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Preface

About This Guide

Learn about the QuickTime suite of products and what’s

new in this version of QuickTime Streaming Server.

Mac OS X Server version 10.4 includes QuickTime Streaming Server (QTSS) version 5.5 in

its suite of services. QTSS comes preinstalled on Apple server hardware.

QTSS is similar in design and configuration to Apache, the popular web server software

that is also included in Mac OS X Server. If you have experience working with Apache,

QTSS will seem familiar.

If you have previously administered a QuickTime Streaming Server using the web-

based application, Web Admin, you can continue to do so. Web Admin is useful for

administering a streaming server remotely or from non-Macintosh computers. (For

more information, see “Using the Web-Based Application to Manage

QuickTime Streaming” on page 28.) Server Admin for Mac OS X Server (starting with

version 10.3) includes a user-friendly interface for accomplishing the tasks you

performed with Web Admin.

What’s New in QuickTime Streaming Server (QTSS) for

Mac OS X Server Version 10.4

Built in to Mac OS X Server version 10.4 is QuickTime Streaming Server 5.5, Apple’s

industrial-strength, standards-based streaming server with improvements in standards

support and overall reliability. QTSS 5.5 delivers a number of enhancements:

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Increased support for streaming to mobile phones:

QTSS 5.5 includes a number of

enhancements for streaming live and on-demand 3GPP (.3gp) files to a variety of

mobile phones.

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Support for streaming HD movies:

Performance of QTSS has been increased to

support streaming of HD content. QTSS 5.5 can stream thousands of simultaneous

movies encoded at 1280x720, 24p, 5mbps from a single Xserve G5. QTSS 5.5 now

supports streaming of live and on-demand content encoded with the new AVC/

H.264 codec, which is included with Quicktime 7.

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