About This Manual

Explains how to create plug-in modules for the QuickTime Streaming Server.

What’s New

Version 5.0 of the QTSS programming interface provides the following new features:

These new internal server preferences have been added: disable_thinning, player_requires_rtp_header_info, and player_requires_bandwidth_adjustment.
These new preferences have been added to the QTSSFileModule module for compatibility with 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) players: compatibility_adjust_sdp_media_bandwidth_percent and enable_player_compatibility.
RTP play information is now enabled by default in the QTSSReflectorModule module. Use the new preference, disable_rtp_play_info to disable RTP Play information. Another new QTSSReflectorModule preference is reflector_rtp_info_offset_msec. For compatibility with 3GPP players, these preferences have also been added to the QTSSReflectorModule module: enable_play_response_range_header, enable_player_compatibility, and force_rtp_info_sequence_and_time.
This new preference has been added to the QTSSFlowControlModule module: flow_control_udp_thinning_module_enabled.

The following changes have been made to existing preferences:

Default size of the QTSSFileModule preference shared_buffer_unit_k_size has been increased from 32 to 64.
Default size of the QTSSFileModule preference private_buffer_unit_k_size has been increased from 32 to 64.

The enable_rtp_play_info preference has been removed from the QTSSReflectorModule module.

The -D command line option has been added to the StreamingServer. When specified, the -D option outputs performance status information.

The file streamingloadtool.conf, installed in /Library/QuickTimeStreaming/Config, has new file tags:

player text, where text is the name of the RTSP player. The information is sent to the server as the UserAgent header.
sendoptions setting, where setting is yes or no. If yes, a Send Options request is made before the DESCRIBE statement.
requestrandomdata setting, where setting is yes or no. Set setting to yes to ask for random data from the server.
randomdatasize setting, where setting is a number from 0 to 262144 that specifies the number of random bytes the server should send.

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For More Information

Go to http://www.opensource.apple.com to register as a member of the Apple open source community. Then download the source code for the Darwin Streaming Server at http://www.publicsource.apple.com/projects/streaming . The source code’s Documentation directory contains valuable information:

AboutTheSource.html
DevNotes.html
SourceCodeFAQ.html

The following RFCs provide additional information of interest to developers of QuickTime Streaming Server modules and are available at many locations on the Internet:

RFC 2326, Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP)
RFC 1889, RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications
RFC 2327, SDP: Session Description Protocol
RFC 2616, HTTP 1.1

For an overview of the Darwin Streaming Server and links to the latest QuickTime information, go to http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/streaming .

Go to http://developer.apple.com/documentation/quicktime for QuickTime developer documentation.

Communicate with other Darwin Streaming Server developers by joining the discussion list at http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/streaming-server-dev .

See what with other Darwin Streaming Server developers are doing by joining the discussion list at http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/publicsource-modifications .