Darwin Streaming Server

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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.

Who should use Darwin Streaming Server?

While sharing the same code base as QuickTime Streaming Server, Darwin Streaming Server is an open source project intended for developers who need to stream QuickTime and MPEG-4 media on alternative platforms such as Windows, Linux, and Solaris, or those developers who need to extend and/or modify the existing streaming server code to fit their needs. Darwin Streaming Server is only supported by the open source community and is not eligible for technical support from Apple. Apple hosts a number of email discussion lists for Darwin Streaming Server users and developers to share ideas and discuss deployment scenarios.

QuickTime Streaming Server (QTSS) is Apple's commercial streaming server delivered as part of Mac OS X Server. QTSS provides users with enhanced administration and media management tools as a result of the tight integration with Mac OS X Server; these tools are not available as part of the open source project. Technical support is available for QTSS as part of the AppleCare support plans provided for Mac OS X Server and Xserve.

Both DSS and QTSS are built on a core server that provides state of the art quality of service features with Skip protection and Instant-On, and support for the latest digital media standards, MPEG-4 and 3GPP.

Darwin Streaming Server is available as a free download under the Apple Public Source License.

The following components are available via CVS:

• StreamingServer

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Frequently Asked Questions

Find answers to common questions about Darwin Streaming Server.

Getting Source Code from CVS

Instructions for obtaining the open source printing components via CVS.

Official Release - DSS 5.5.5

Source Code

Streaming Server 5.5.5 server and proxy source code (available under CVS tag "DSS_5_5_5_Release").

Mac OS X

Streaming Server

Streaming Proxy

For Mac OS X 10.3.9 and later.

Linux

Streaming Server

Streaming Proxy

For Fedora Core 4 and later.

Windows

Streaming Server

For Windows 2000/2003 Server

Related Links

Bug Reporting

Report bugs or make enhancement requests for the components listed above.

Darwin Source Code

Sources for the components listed above are available here.

Administrator's Guide

QuickTime Streaming Server Administrator's Guide (PDF).

Developer Documentation

QuickTime Streaming Server Developer Documentation.