Apple Darwin Streaming Server

Welcome to Darwin Streaming Server, the open source version of Apple's QuickTime Streaming Server technology that allows you to send streaming media to clients across the Internet using the industry standard RTP and RTSP protocols. Based on the same code base as QuickTime Streaming Server, Darwin Streaming Server provides a high level of customizability and runs on a variety of platforms allowing you to manipulate the code to fit your needs.

What is new in this release:

• DSS now builds and runs 64-bit on Mac OS X
• The example Authorization module has been updated. Source code is available in: APIModules/QTSSDemoAuthorizationModule.bproj
• The example Spam Defense module has been updated. Source code is available in: APIModules/QTSSSpamDefenseModule.bproj
• An example RTSP redirect module has been included Source code is available in: APIModules/QTSSDemoRedirectModule.bproj Example modules are installed into: (MacOS X): /Library/QuickTimeStreamingServer/Modules.disabled (other Unix): /usr/local/sbin/StreamingServerModules
• 3GPP Release 6 bit rate adaptation support
• Mac OS X based user account support is added using Apple Open Directory and includes LDAP and Active Directory user account authentication and authorization
• Full source code for the streamingloadtool. Streamingloadtool is the QuickTime, MPEG-4, and 3GPP rtsp/rtp test client.
• Separate thread pools are used for RTSP processing and RTP processing
• Performance is improved on Mac OS X systems with 4 and 8 cores over previous releases.
• Supports hinted files greater than 4GB in size.
• Pre-built Mac OS X binary for Mac OS X 10.5 or later
  3 Jan 15 in Networking Software, Internet Operations