Apple QuickTime Streaming Server (Administrator’s Guide) - Manual (Page 53)

Managing Your Streaming Server 53
To configure QTSS to host streams from multiple media directories:
1 For each individual user, make a local movie library in each user’s home directory. For
example:
/Users/user1/Movies/
/Users/user2/Movies/
/Users/user3/Movies/
2 Set each directory to be owned by its user, and give each user read/write access to his or her
own files.
3 In your QTSS media directory, create symbolic links that point to each user’s private movie
directory. For example, in Terminal, enter:
cd /Library/QuickTimeStreaming/Movies
ln -s /Users/user1/Movies user1
ln -s /Users/user2/Movies user2
ln -s /Users/user3/Movies user3
This will produce the following:
/Library/QuickTimeStreaming/Movies/user1 -> /Users/user1/Movies
/Library/QuickTimeStreaming/Movies/user2 -> /Users/user2/Movies
/Library/QuickTimeStreaming/Movies/user3 -> /Users/user3/Movies
4 Ask users to upload their hinted QuickTime movies to their own movie directories. For
example:
/Users/user1/Movies/sample.mov
/Users/user2/Movies/test_abc.mov
/Users/user3/Movies/xyz.mov
Users can use RTSP URLs such as the following to stream movies from each user’s private
movie directory:
rtsp://qtss.domain.com/user1/sample.mov
rtsp://qtss.domain.com/user2/test_abc.mov
rtsp://qtss.domain.com/user3/xyz.mov
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