Apple QuickTime Streaming Server 5.5

Welcome to QuickTime Streaming Server, the standards-based streaming media server that combines industrial strength support with engaging ease of use.
Whether you are looking to add streaming media to your web site, deliver distance learning or provide rich content for your mobile subscribers, Mac OS X Server has all of the tools you need. Featuring the latest vesion of QuickTime Streaming Server (QTSS) and QTSS Publisher, providing streaming services has never been easier or more cost-effective.
Using the open standard, QuickTime Streaming Server lets you deliver live or prerecorded content in realtime over the Internet. With Instant-On, Apples patent-pending innovative streaming technology, your content begins to play as soon its link is clicked; there’s no waiting for the file to download.
Main features:
- H.264 Stunning video quality from 3G to HD.
- MPEG-4 The digital media standard.
- AAC Audio Small files. Large sounds.
- Streaming Your media in real time.
- Mobile Creation, delivery and playback. Worldwide.
- Interactivity Gives your movies the smarts.
- QuickTime VR Takes media for a spin.
- Media Skins Not just another pretty face.
- Automation Makes your content for you.
- Supported streaming formats
- QuickTime Movie (.MOV)
- MPEG-4 (.MP4)
- 3GPP (.3GP)
- Streaming Protocols
- RTSP over TCP
- RTP over UDP
- RTP over Apples Reliable UDP
- RTSP/RTP in HTTP (tunneled)
- RTP over RTSP (RTP over TCP)
- Icecast via HTTP (MP3 only)
- Standards-compliance
- RFC 2326, Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP)
- RFC 1889, Real Time Transport Protocol (RTP)
- RFC 2327, Session Description Protocol (SDP)
- 3GPP Release 5 (TS 26.234 v5.6)
- Performance (Simultaneous streams)
- Live streams
- 20 kbps (AAC audio) - 10,000
- 64 kbps (MPEG-4 video & AAC audio) - 2,500
- 300 kbps (MPEG-4 video & AAC audio) - 1,500
- On-Demand Streams
- 20 kbps (AAC Audio) - 8,000
- 64 kbps (MPEG-4 video & AAC audio) - 2,000
- 300 kbps (MPEG-4 video & AAC audio) - 1,000.
Enhancements:
- Performance enhancements: Stream industry standard, HD (High Definition) H.264 content to a wide range wide of compliant players and devices.
- Increased support for 3G streaming. Deliver live and on-demand 3G streams over high-speed mobile networks to a wide range of mobile handsets.
- Brand new QTSS Publisher. Included with QuickTime Streaming Server 5.5 is a brand-new version of QTSS Publisher, an easy-to-use application for managing your server-side media. Major Features:
- Redesigned user interface
- Support for non-admin log-in
- AppleScript support for automating workflows.