What's New with Darwin Streaming Server 6.0.3
- DSS now builds and runs 64-bit on MacOS X
- Updates for example modules:
- 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
- The example Authorization module has been updated.
- OS X based user account support is added using Apple Open Directory services and includes LDAP and Active Directory user account authentication and authorization
- Separate thread pools are used for RTSP processing and RTP processing
- Performance is improved on OS X systems with 4 and 8 cores over previous releases.
- Supports hinted files greater than 4GB in size.
- The posted pre-built MacOS package runs on MacOS X 10.5 or later only
- No build support yet for non-Mac OS X systems (open source submissions are needed to build on other platforms)
- No longer posting pre-built install binaries for non-Mac OS X systems.
Version 5.5.5 for Linux and Windows can be downloaded from http://developer.apple.com/opensource/server/streaming/index.html
This release contains open source submissions for the following issues:
- Fixed compilation problem on Solaris 10u3 (Stefan Parvu)
- Fixed access log c-bytes value (Amir Wolf)
- Fixed access log CPU utilization value
- Fixed compilation problem on FC6 linux PPC (Matthew McGillis)
- Fix to allow streaming of files with bad hint track references, allows compatibility with some popular encoders (Fredrik Widlund)
- Fix StreamingProxy compilation problems for some non-MacOSX platforms
- Added a HowTo for uninstalling DSS on a MacOS X system
- Misc. fixes for Debian linux (Ben Humpert)
- Fixed problem with video sync frame detection for MacOS X on Intel (Lorenzo Vicisano)