Using QuickTime Broadcaster with QuickTime Player

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Using QuickTime Broadcaster with QuickTime Player

I have one computer streaming video/audio using QuickTime Broadcaster. How are you supposed to view the stream with QuickTime Player on another computer? None of the QuickTime docs says how you view a stream. I tried entering the IP address of my broadcast computer into the Open URL field, but nothing happens. I have the latest SW on everything.

Broadcast on PowerBook G4, Mac OS X (10.4.8), QT 7.1.3, QT Broadcaster 1.5.1

Posted on Jan 23, 2007 4:06 PM

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Answer 1

varjak paw

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Jan 24, 2007 7:16 AM in response to Bill Bard

You need to enter in an RTSP URL, a la:

rtsp://myserver.apple.com/mystream.sdp

(this is in the QT Broadcaster Help, under "Viewing a Broadcast Using a URL")

Regards.

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Answer 2

Bill Bard Author

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Jan 24, 2007 5:26 PM in response to varjak paw

Thanks. This helped, although it still didn't work. I found the solution in the help file although I still had to experiment. The description below is one way for it to work, although there are probably other ways.

To get it to work from one computer to another, you have to export from the QTB an sdp file. This file gets stored on the viewing computer. On the QTB computer, on the Network tab, the IP address needs to be the viewing computer's IP. Once broadcasting, the QT Player on the viewing computer opens the sdp file. It should then work. If anything on QTB get changed (MPEG-4, etc), you need to export another sdp file.

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Answer 3

XTIGER

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Mar 7, 2007 1:03 PM in response to Bill Bard

It works on lan, but unfortunatelly it dont work on wan.
can any one help me, how can i watch broadcast on wan connection.

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