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HOWTO produce and puplish AV-Streams (with Darwin Streaming Server)

Publish a mpeg-stream or playlist on a webpage with quicktime plugin

create a textfile with:
rtsptext rtsp://stream.sonance.net/filename.sdp
save it as:
filename.mov and copy it to your web-directory

then copy the following code to your webpage and modify height, width an the filenames
<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" WIDTH="256"HEIGHT="208" CODEBASE="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab"> <PARAM name="SRC" VALUE="http://stream.sonance.net/filename.mov"> <PARAM name="AUTOPLAY" VALUE="true"> <PARAM name="CONTROLLER" VALUE="true"> <EMBED SRC="http://stream.sonance.net/filename.mov" WIDTH="256" HEIGHT="208" AUTOPLAY="true" CONTROLLER="true" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/"> </EMBED> </OBJECT>

Add a hint track (to stream with Darwin Streaming Server):

# Hinting. (with open-source mp4creator)

( http://mpeg4ip.sourceforge.net/docs/ )

To stream a file that has audio and video using a streaming server like the Darwin streaming server, you will need to hint the file.

You can use the mp4creator's hint option. With this option, you need to specify a track number. Use the mp4info utility to get this information.

Track Type Info
1 od Object Descriptors
2 scene BIFS
201 video MPEG-4, 166.633 secs, 262 kbps, 320x240 @ 14.16 fps
101 audio MPEG-4, 166.528 secs, 49 kbps, 32000 Hz


Then use the mp4creator command line options to add the hint tracks:
mp4creator -hint=201 file.mp4
mp4creator -hint=101 file.mp4

Adding a hint track with QuickTime Player (Pro version)

( http://www.publicsource.apple.com/projects/streaming/StreamingServerHelp/pgs/ss03.html )

You can use the Pro version of QuickTime Player on most Mac OS-based and Windows-based computers. Check the QuickTime Web site for information on system requirements and installation instructions for QuickTime Pro.

When you use QuickTime Player to export a movie as a hinted movie, QuickTime adds the appropriate number of hint tracks automatically.

To export a QuickTime movie as a hinted movie:
1 Open the Pro version of QuickTime Player on a Mac OS-based or Windows-based computer.
2 Choose Export from the File menu.
3 Choose "Movie to Hinted Movie" from the pop-up menu, then type a new file name.
4 Click Options in the export dialog box.
5 Select Optimize Hints For Server.
6 Click OK.
7 Click Save.


For detailed information on hinting movies, see the following site:
• QuickTime authoring Web site
www.apple.com/quicktime/authoring/