DarwinStreamingServer

This is a streaming for the Apple QuickTime format.

* download from: http://static.macosforge.org/dss/downloads/

• version 6.0.3

Installation

• User: (command may change depending on distribution/version)

groupadd --system qtss; adduser --system --no-create-home -G qtss qtss
id qtss
uid=501(qtss) gid=501(qtss) groups=501(qtss)

From Source

• Ubuntu patch
• http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/_attachment?target=Darwin_Streaming_Server%2Fpatch

• run "'Buildit'" script in source.
• run '"Install'" script in source.

• edit the configuration file streamingserver.xml in /etc/streaming.
  • bind_ip_addr to the ip to listen to.
  • rtsp_port

RedHat based (using rpm)

(http://www.howtoforge.com/apples-darwin-streaming-server-on-centos-5.2)

• yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
• yum install perl-Net-SSLeay
• wget http://www.abrahamsson.com/DarwinStreamingServer-6.0.3-2.src.rpm
• mkdir -p /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
• rpm -ivh DarwinStreamingServer-6.0.3-2.src.rpm
• cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/ || cd /root/rpmbuild/SPECS
• rpmbuild -bb DarwinStreamingServer.spec
• cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/`uname -m` || cd /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/`uname -m`

rpm -Uvh DarwinStreamingServer-6.0.3-2.i686.rpm

• on another terminal, killall -9 DarwinStreamingServer (because the installation hangs)

rpm -Uvh DarwinStreamingServer-Utils-6.0.3-2.i686.rpm

• it will say:

Creating administrator user with default password password. Please change it by running qtpasswd

Using it

• qtpasswd changes QTSS administrator password