Configure QuickTime Player

Winter 2005 - For Nusring Students

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1. Make sure you have at least Apple QuickTime 6.5 installed.
2. Double-click the QT Player icon.
3. From the File menu select QT Settings
4. Check the Connection Speed window. Select the type of connection your computer has to the Internet.

   Figure 1

   Next, set the Streaming Proxy. From the QuickTime Settings pop-up menu, select Streaming Proxy.Next click on the Streaming Proxy window. Make sure none of the options are selected; this includes Use System Settings.

   

   Figure 2

   Lastly, click on the Streaming Transport pane. Make sure the only option selected is Automatically determine the best protocol and port.
   

   Figure 3

   RealPlayer

   Real Player can also cause problems, it will try and highjack the streams. Even though QuickTime is making the requests, RealPlayer is attempting to use them. This often shows itself as being able to see the video but not hear the audio. In order to combat that, make sure RealPlayer is configured to only play RealPlayer media.

   To do this, open RealPlayer, go to the Tools menu and select Preferences. Click on the Media Types tab and make sure that MPEG and AVI video, AAC, and QuickTime Video do not have checks next to them. This tells Real to not and try to play those types of media.

   

   Figure 4

   NOTE:
   Included here is a link to help test your streaming setup. Open the QT Player and from the File menu select Open URL in new window. Type in the following address and click OK rtsp://streams.wright.edu/sample_100kbit.mov

   There should be an animation of the QuickTime Q that appears.

   Also note that Windows XP has a firewall as well as some wireless devices. You do not have to turn off the firewall options, but you must make sure specific ports are open. If they are not, streaming may not work. Due to the number of manufactors and interfaces we are not able to provide specific instructions, but have compile a list of the ports that streaming needs access to, these ports are both incoming and outgoing traffic.

   Network ports used by QuickTime Streaming

   • 80 - HTTP
   • 554 - RTSP
   • 6970-9999 - used for dynamic UDP broadcast
   • 7070 - RTSP

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