Creating QuickTime streaming media

THE QUICKTIME SERVER IS NO LONGER ACCEPTING NEW MEDIA. PLEASE SEE THE FLASH STREAMING MEDIA PAGES.

Guidelines for uploading and using media on wmserver/xstream

Movies & audio should be rendered as QuickTime H.264 or MP4 files, hinted for streaming. For on-campus, don't limit the bit rate, but set the quality as "high". For off-campus, limit the bit rate to 600kbps to 800kbps, depending on your target audience (800 looks better, 600 works better on older machines & slower connections). For complete instructions, please see Jonathan or Bruce.
When you're done, move the files to itechxfer:
- Login to itechxfer (on a mac, connect to server smb://itechxfer) as user itech, password ****. Put items in the tempstorage volume, in the "keep one week" folder.
- Create a folder for your material, even if it's a single file. The folder name should indicate the class that the material is for.
- Put the media in the folder.
- Create a text file in the folder to log the contents. In columns in the text file, please fill in the following fields:
  Filename Owner Semester Keep until Campus
  Filename- should match the filename of the movie, audio clip, or other object.
  Owner- the faculty member or other person who requested the movie
  Semester- the semester the movie was put up
  Keep until- date when the movie can be removed from the server (although we'll archive the media "for ever").
  Campus- campus-only or accessible from everywhere.
Email Jonathan or Chris. We'll put the media on the server. For objects that are campus only, the URL will be:
rtsp://xstream.williams.edu/~courses/coursename/objectname

For objects that are accessible from anywhere, the URL will be:

rtsp://wmserver.williams.edu/courses/coursename/objectname

We'll email you back when it's done.
To embed the object in a CDM record, enter the following code on a single line into a CDM field (portions you should modify to match your code are in orange):
<embed width='320' height='260' autoplay='false' qtsrc='yourURL' src='http://wmserver.williams.edu/web/dummy.mov'>
To create a reference file, so that you can set access controls on it or so that you can deliver a streaming file via HTTP, create a regular old fashioned text file, but give it the extension ".mov", and enter the following into the file itself:
RTSPtext
yourURL
You can also create a reference file using QT player. In QT player select "open url" and enter yourURL. When it is streaming, select "save as" a self-contained movie.

To use the object on Blackboard, create a reference file as described above, and simply upload that to Blackboard in the regular way.
To embed the link in a web page, you can cut and paste the following code (code you should modify to match your object is in orange):

</object>

To have the link open in a new window, you can cut and paste the following code:

<object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" height="32" width="32">
<param name="src" value="http://wmserver.williams.edu/web/dummy.mov">
<param name="controller" value="false">
<param name="href" value="rtsp://xstream.williams.edu/~courses/wcma/JPBeneathTheSurface.mp4">
<param name="target" value="quicktimeplayer">
<param name="type" value="image/x-quicktime">
<param name="qtsrcdontusebrowser" value="true">
<embed src="http://wmserver.williams.edu/web/dummy.mov"
type="image/x-quicktime"
qtsrcdontusebrowser="true"
controller="false"
href="rtsp://xstream.williams.edu/~courses/wcma/JPBeneathTheSurface.mp4"
target="quicktimeplayer"
height="32"
width="32" />

</object>