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