Introduction to Darwin Streaming Server

Streaming media is an increasingly popular way to distribute information on the Internet. News releases, special company events, even your private home movie library—just about everyone has content that can be streamed, but very few want to make the perceived investment necessary to support streaming services. With Apple's Darwin Streaming Server (abbreviated here as DSS, it's the open source version of the official QuickTime Streaming Server [QTSS] available on Tiger Server), this investment is reduced to any modern operating system (the server runs on Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X), a Macintosh for broadcasting live events, and a means of getting video into your computer. If the explosion of iMovie HD and ...

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