QTSS Publisher and create web page

hi mark,

i'm experiencing the same error. the only thing i can figure out about it is that when the playlists are created, my original files, stored in ~/Sites/qtmedia or ~/Sites/Streaming/qtmedia are replaced by symlinks to themselves. this is what is causing the 'file not found' message. but it is unclear to me why this is occurring.

i have searched apple's site and the web for more information, but i can't find it. i think that qtss publisher (although cool) is not quite ready for primetime.

Greetings,
I am having the same problem also with QTSS. I have been successful with doing live broadcasting with Broadcaster but I cannot get the QTSS publisher to work. The streaming sample movies play when I have the web server service turned off, but I thought with QTTS publisher you need web services. I have a couple of questions related to this.

1. In QTTS Publisher under Library | Web Server | Website - what should it read.
Mine says default:80 and it will not let me change it

2. How can I run the Web Server service with Quicktime Streaming Server running without conflicts?

I suspect that the default website address of *:80 is selected here. Click on the yellow "Library" icon in QTSS publisher, then make sure no media files are selected. You should see 3 tabs below the media window, Quicktime Streaming Server, Web Server and Library Location. Select "Web Server" and make sure you have selected a valid site that has been set up on your web server. Also make sure the path is correct. If the default site of *:80 is selected then you will get the "file not found error".

Hope this helps.

I'm finding QTSS Publisher a nightmare.

I uploaded one movie, and everything went fine. I was able to Publish the file and web playback was terrific.

I uploaded another file. Upload was fine, but every time I try to publish it I get the error message:



The server returned an error.
The file could not be created, because the enclosing folder could not be modified.



I have no idea what folder we're talking about, or why it could be modified for the first movie, but not the second.

As is usual with OS X Server, the documentation is no help at all.

Any ideas on this?

G4, 867 MHz Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Although QTSS Publisher's concept is a good idea, I don't use it because of the grief that everyone has mentioned so far. When I have to embed a QT stream, I just do it manually in Dreamweaver.

Well, that's essentially what I'm trying to do, albeit with BBEdit - but the code I'm cutting & pasting from Publisher is still resulting in either a 404 or a QuickTime logo with a question mark, which I take to be a "movie not found" symbol.

I'm not trying to actually create the web pages in Publisher, just to generate the code I cna lift. It worked the first time I tried it, never again.

Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Check out the source code at this link and compare it to your's....
http://digicast.rih.org/qtsstest.html

Hmm...

I tried it, and now I get an error message: -3285 Disconnected.

Here's my code:

<object CLASSID="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" CODEBASE="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab"
width="360" height="272" align="absmiddle">
<param name="src" value="mymovie.mov">
<param name="qtsrc" value="rtsp://www.mydomain.com/qtmedia/mymovie.mov">
<param name="autoplay" value="true">
<param name="loop" value="false">
<param name="controller" value="true">
<embed src="mymovie.mov" width="360" height="272" loop="false" align="absmiddle" kioskmode=true qtsrc="rtsp://www.mydomain.com/qtmedia/mymovie.mov" autoplay="true" controller="true" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/"></embed>
</object>

mymovie.mov resides in the directory www.mydomain.com/qtmedia/



Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Does the QTSS Movies setting on your server actually point to the 'qtmedia' folder on whatever volume it's on? Is your domain name actually 'mydomain.com'? Sometimes 'mydomain.com' is used as an example and it is expected that you will replace it with your actual domain name. If you don't have a domain name, use the server's actual IP address instead. If using NAT on your network, use the server's translated, public IP.

Hi everybody,

I have also a problem with creating webpages by QTSS publisher.
Yesterday it worked fine though, today not always.
QTSS is creating just an empty html-file. (?!) I tried a lot and different things, but it's always empty.
I realized that almost everytime i restart the QTSS publisher and connect again, upload a new movie, the URL looks different: sometimes like rtsp://myserveraddress:80/... sometimes only rtsp://:80... and once it was rtsp://myserveraddress:554/....
Also I realized that the streaming only works with the first kind of URL-type.
I set up my webserver to port 8080 and QTSS to port 80, so i always have to type in manually the port :8080, as well in the created webpage.

But does someone has an idea about the empty webpages and why it doesnt work anymore (although it did yesterday and i didnt changed any settings)

Thx

EDIT: I solved it! The problem was the text for the subject: I used german letters like ü,ä,ö etc. That it was what QTSS didn't like.

dani

PowerMacintosh G5. 1.8 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.3)

PowerMacintosh G5. 1.8 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Does the QTSS Movies setting on your server actually
point to the 'qtmedia' folder on whatever volume it's
on? Is your domain name actually 'mydomain.com'?
Sometimes 'mydomain.com' is used as an example and
it is expected that you will replace it with your
actual domain name. If you don't have a domain
name, use the server's actual IP address instead.
If using NAT on your network, use the server's
translated, public IP.

Sorry for the delay in responding - been busy with seasonal music.

I'm using the IP address. I just put the other stuff in there as anonymous placeholders.

Here's my frustration. This code works perfectly:

<object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" width="320" height="272" codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab">
<param name="SRC" value="http://myserverIP:554/qtmedia/mymovie01.mov">
<param name="TYPE" value="video/quicktime">
<param name="AUTOPLAY" value="true">
<param name="CONTROLLER" value="true">
<embed src="http://myserverIP:554/qtmedia/mymovie01.mov" type="video/quicktime" width="320" height="272" autoplay="true" controller="true" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/">
</embed>
</object>

while this code always returns something like a "File not found" - I also get the faded blue Q with a white question mark:

<object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" width="360" height="272" codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab">
<param name="SRC" value="http://myserverIP:554/qtmedia/mymovie02.mov">
<param name="TYPE" value="video/quicktime">
<param name="AUTOPLAY" value="true">
<param name="CONTROLLER" value="true">
<embed src="http://myserverIP:554/qtmedia/mymovie01.mov" type="video/quicktime" width="360" height="272" autoplay="true" controller="true" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/">
</embed>
</object>

mymovie01.mov and mymovie02.mov share exactly the same codecs, permissions and folder locations. Yet one works, and the other doesn't. The only diffference between them - aside from content - is the size: 02 is 40 pixels wider.

Makes no sense to me at all.


G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Oops - typo in the code for that second movie. should read:

<object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" width="360" height="272" codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab">
<param name="SRC" value="http://myserverIP:554/qtmedia/mymovie02.mov">
<param name="TYPE" value="video/quicktime">
<param name="AUTOPLAY" value="true">
<param name="CONTROLLER" value="true">
<embed src="http://myserverIP:554/qtmedia/mymovie02.mov" type="video/quicktime" width="360" height="272" autoplay="true" controller="true" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/">
</embed>
</object>