SDP file.įor this demo I am using my webcam as the source video. The address is the TCP/IP address of the server that will run FFMPEG. Note the port numbers used for audio and video, this info is saved in the. We will be creating a manual unicast connection and the screen shots below show the settings I used. It hasn’t been updated since 2009, so obviously isn’t high on Apples list of supported software anymore, but hey ho, it is free.įire up QTB and configure your video and audio settings.

You can download the Quicktime Broadcaster for Mac here. So lets use Quicktime Broadcaster (QTB) to stream live video to a server running FFMPEG which will transcode the video into HLS segments which can be served up by Apache (or your web seriver of choice) to HLS clients.

When I am streaming live RTSP content to my Darwin media server I use the Apple Quicktime Broadcaster (on my MAC) as its free and kinda works well. If you want to do this with live content then the process is similar but you will also need a client to transmit the live video to your server to transcode it into segments on the fly.

This works pretty well for video content that you want to convert from say MP4 to HLS, you run a conversion process that transcodes the video into multiple 10 second segments that you serve up to clients via an. HLS basically just cuts up video files into small MPEG video segments that can be downloaded/ streamed via a normal website using the HTTP protocol. One of the main problems is that for Apple i devices there is no native RTSP support so streaming content from the Darwin server to portable devices is not so easy.Īpple have largely replaced RTSP with HTTP Live Streaming (HLS). It’s 2014 and I am still using the Apple Darwin Media server, but after years of being neglected by Apple it is starting to show it’s age. This post was last updated 8 years 8 months 3 days ago, some of the information contained here may no longer be actual and any referenced software versions may have been updated!

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