Apple QuickTime Streaming Server (Administrator’s Guide) - Manual (Page 13)

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m Improved stream quality: Enhancements to Apple skip-protection technology (patent
pending)—a collection of quality-of-service features-—result in even better stream quality.
m Performance enhancements: Overall stability and performance of the server has been
improved.
m Authentication: Two types of authentication, digest and basic, let you control access to
protected media.
m Server-side playlists: You can stream a set of media files as if it were a live broadcast. This
can be ideal for creating and managing a virtual radio or television station.
m Relay support: You can easily set up several layers of servers to broadcast streams to a
virtually unlimited number of clients.
QTSS and DSS 4.1 added these features:
m Support for Instant-On: Viewers with a broadband connection watching a streaming
video with QuickTime 6 and later will benefit from Instant-On, an advance in Apple skip-
protection technology (patent pending) that dramatically improves the viewing
experience by playing video and audio streams instantaneously.
m Integrated Broadcaster administration: A new dialog linked from the General Settings
page provides an easy way to set up or change the user name and password for
QuickTime Broadcaster. A Broadcast Settings pane allows remote operation of QuickTime
Broadcaster (on Mac OS X Server version 10.2 or later).
For More Information
Additional QuickTime streaming resources are available. These include classes, mailing lists,
and frequently asked questions (FAQs).
m The QuickTime Streaming Server product page
(http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/qtss/) provides the latest information on
key features, recent downloads, and minimum requirements, with links to additional
support pages.
m The public source web site (http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/streaming/)
provides access to Darwin Streaming Server source code as well as access to the public
Concurrent Version System (CVS) archive and developer information. Be sure to read the
FAQs linked from this page.
m The Mac OS X Server AppleCare support page (http://www.info.apple.com/usen/
macosxserver/) provides links to many useful Knowledge Base articles on all of the
services that ship with Mac OS X Server, including QuickTime Streaming Server and
Apache. It also provides links to downloadable PDFs of
Getting Started With Mac OS X
Server and Mac OS X Server Administrator’s Guide.
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