
58 Chapter 6 Setup Example
Such a setup would make it possible for students who couldn’t attend a class in person
to view it online. It would also enable students to review parts of the lecture later by
playing an archived version on their computers.
The streaming setup in this example, shown above, has these features:
• An already-existing local network with Ethernet connections to classrooms and
lecture halls from which live presentations are to be streamed.
• A digital video (DV) camera and microphone set up in a classroom or lecture hall to
convert the live presentation to digital form. The camera makes a high-quality DV
recording of the presentation and provides the digital signal to be encoded for live
streaming.
• The DV camera is connected through a FireWire port to a laptop computer running
QuickTime Broadcaster, which encodes the digitized live presentation and transmits
the signal via an Ethernet connection to the streaming server on the campus
network.
• The streaming server is a rack-mounted Xserve running “headless” (without a
monitor and keyboard). The server is running Mac OS X Server with QuickTime
Streaming Server (QTSS) configured to reflect the encoded live presentation as a
unicast stream to each client computer—on the campus network or on the
Internet—that “tunes in” to the broadcast. The Xserve comes with Mac OS X Server
and QTSS preinstalled.
Streaming
server
Broadcaster
The Internet
Clients on Internet
Clients on
local networ
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