Supported streaming formats*

  • QuickTime Movie (.MOV)
  • MPEG-4 (.MP4)
  • 3GPP (.3GP)

Streaming Protocols

  • RTSP over TCP
  • RTP over UDP
  • RTP over Apple's Reliable UDP
  • RTSP/RTP in HTTP (tunneled)
  • RTP over RTSP (RTP over TCP)
  • Icecast via HTTP (MP3 only)

Standards-compliance

  • RFC 2326, Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP)
  • RFC 1889, Real Time Transport Protocol (RTP)
  • RFC 2327, Session Description Protocol (SDP)
  • 3GPP Release 5 (TS 26.234 v5.6)

Performance (Simultaneous streams)

  • Live streams
    • 20 kbps (AAC audio) - 10,000
    • 64 kbps (MPEG-4 video & AAC audio) - 2,500
    • 300 kbps (MPEG-4 video & AAC audio) - 1,500
  • On-Demand Streams
    • 20 kbps (AAC Audio) - 8,000
    • 64 kbps (MPEG-4 video & AAC audio) - 2,000
    • 300 kbps (MPEG-4 video & AAC audio) - 1,000

System Requirements

  • Xserve, Power Mac G5, G4 or G3, iMac, eMac or Mac mini computer; 128MB of RAM, at least 256MB of RAM for high-demand servers running multiple services; built-in USB; 4GB of available disk space.

QTSS Remote Administration

  • Mac OS X Server Admin
  • Web-based Admin
  • UNIX command line

Transport

  • Multicast
  • Unicast

*Files must be hinted for streaming from QTSS