Apple QuickTime Streaming Server (Administrator’s Guide) - Manual (Page 49)

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m If the media plays once and then stops, make sure the play mode is set to either
Sequential Looped or Weighted Random. If you broadcast the playlist as weighted random
and set a value other than zero for repeated items, make sure the value is less than the
number of media files in the playlist. You must stop and start the broadcast for the
changes to take effect.
m If some media in the playlist are not played, check the weight you have assigned to
each media file in the playlist. You must stop and start the broadcast for the changes to
take effect.
m If a movie playlist isn’t streaming correctly, be sure the content, format, and encoding of
the media are the same for all files in the playlist. Also, make sure users have QuickTime 4
or later installed on their computers.
m If your playlist contains movies with different encodings, the encodings that don’t match
the encoding of the first movie in the playlist (also known as the sdp_reference_movie)
won’t be played. You can play movies with different encodings in the playlist if the first
movie in the playlist contains all the encodings you plan to use.
Advanced
This section answers questions raised by more advanced users.
How do I bind the Streaming Server Admin computer to a single IP
address if my machine is multihomed?
A line in the streamingadminserver.conf file tells the server what IP address it should bind to.
For example, the line
bind=1.2.3.4
tells the server to bind to the local IP address 1.2.3.4.
To specify a single IP address:
1 Log in to the server as an administrator.
2 Open or create the streamingadminserver.conf file. The file is in the following locations:
QTSS 4:
/Library/QuickTimeStreaming/Config/streamingadminserver.conf
DSS 4 ( Windows):
\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\streamingadminserver.conf
DSS 4 (other supported platforms):
/etc/streaming/streamingadminserver.conf
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