Server Admin 10.4 Help

Accessing Media Streamed From Your Server

To view streaming media, users must have QuickTime 4 or later (or an MP4 player). Following are the instructions to provide to users who want to view media streamed from your server.

1. Open QuickTime Player.
2. Choose File > Open URL.
3. Enter the URL for the media file. For example:

   rtsp://myserver.com/mymedia

   where myserver.com is the DNS name of the QTSS computer and mymedia is the name of the hinted movie or media file.

   This URL assumes that the movie or media file is located at the top level of the media directory. For movies in subfolders within the media directory, add the folder to the pathname. For example:

   rtsp://myserver.com/myfolder/mymedia.mov

If you want users to view streamed media through a web browser, you must set up a webpage to show the media and give users the page's URL.

Note: Typing an RTSP URL directly into the web browser's address field is not recommended (some web browsers don't understand "rtsp").