DreamHost Quicktime Streaming

DreamHost, my current web host, gives it’s hostees a lot, including access to a Darwin Streaming Server (ie Quicktime Streaming). What you have to do is add it to your domain, upload a file to the sub-domain that’s encoded with hinted streaming (which makes a file somewhat larger)… this works fine for pre-recorded files, but for live (real-time) streams you’ll have to do some work. It’s outlined well in this page which I’ll quote because it’s been removed from the internet and I found it on the internet Archive (Archive.org)…. See it here.

makomoo@ITP » PPM week5> Live-streaming with DreamHost

makomoo@ITP » PPM week5> Live-streaming with DreamHost
Makiko put up great instructions for live streaming through Dreamhost.

Here is a slight edit on her post:

Open QuickTime Broadcaster and click “Network” tab.

Select “Manual Unicast” for Transmission.

Enter your streaming server address (it has to be the IP address of your QuickTime/Darwin streaming server. You can get this information via terminal by running host streamingserver.yourdomain. I use host streaming.walking-productions.com.)

You should be able to leave Audio port and Video ports as shown (If it doesn’t work, add 1 or 2 to the number. If it didn’t work the first time it might mean that someone else is using those ports on the server.)

Click “Broadcast” and it will start broadcasting.

Then go to File menu, choose Export > SDP and save it with filename.sdp

Upload the .sdp file to your streaming server (under streamingserver.yourdomain for Dreamhost).

Next, open QuickTime Pro, choose File menu and select Open URL. Then put the URL, like rtsp://streamingserver.yourdomain/streamingserver.yourdomain/filename.mov (again, this is how it is on Dreamhost, modify for other servers).

It should connect to your live video.

To embed this on a page or offer it available over the internet, choose File > Save As and save it as a “reference movie”.

Upload this file to a webserver and you can embed or link to the mov file just like any normal QuickTime movie.