Technical information

48 Chapter 4 Managing Your Media With QTSS Publisher
Delivering Your Content
After you prepare and organize your media, QTSS Publisher makes it easy to deliver
your content over the Internet, by progressive download or streaming.
Making Content Available for Streaming or Downloading
Content in the QTSS Publisher Library is automatically uploaded to the server, but is not
available for on-demand streaming until you make it available.
To make a playlist available, select the playlist and click Start. (See Chapter 3, “Starting
or Stopping Streaming Service,” on page 29.)
To make an individual media file publicly available:
1 In QTSS Publisher, click Library, then select the media file.
2 For an MP3 file, select “Publish MP3 file to web server” under User Access. For a media
file, select an option from the “Publish media to” pop-up menu:
Publish media file to QuickTime Streaming Server (Instant-On). With Instant-On
streaming, no file is downloaded to the client. This provides more protection for the
media. It also gives clients the ability to move the playhead position forward without
waiting for the media to download: Instant-On streaming is an excellent choice for
longer media files (files that are more than 5 minutes in length).
Publish media file to web server (Fast Start). Files can also be posted to the web
server for Fast Start streaming. These files are downloaded to the client. Fast Start is
ideal for shorter media files. It is also a good choice for clients with slower connections
(56K modem).
3 Click Apply.
Specifying Which Server to Broadcast From
By default, playlists broadcast from the server you’re connected to, but you can specify
another server to stream from.
To relay a broadcast through a different server:
1 In QTSS Publisher, select the playlist.
2 Under Broadcast Server, select “Relay broadcast through a different server.”
3 Enter the requested information.
4 Click Apply.
Creating Webpages
QTSS Publisher generates HTML for each playlist. To create a webpage link to a playlist,
drag the HTML to your webpage editor.
You can also use QTSS Publisher to create webpages. Predesigned templates are
provided, so you can create an attractive webpage without having to do a lot of design
work. (See the sample below.)