Category: Streaming and Multi-Media

O’Reilly Network: Movies of Software
Good article on screencasting (recording and streaming your screen).

JavaScript Scripting Guide for QuickTime

So.. Apple has finally started to support JavaScript for plugins. The catch is that you need Tiger. <snide remark>A big help to us developers</snide remark>
From the article:
The QuickTime plug-in is scriptable from the Safari browser, but Mac OS X v10.4 (Tiger) or later is required.

QT Resources

sLop: QuickTime Latency
Soooo.. Following the various instructions in my posting from March 21 QuickTime Latency, I am able to reduce the delay from encoder to server to client to near zero…!

Here are the configuration changes from the QuickTime/Darwin Streaming Server streamingserver.xml file:

From: <PREF NAME=”reflector_buffer_size_sec” TYPE=”UInt32″ >10</PREF>
To:
<PREF NAME=”reflector_buffer_size_sec” TYPE=”UInt32″ >0</PREF>

From: <PREF NAME=”disable_overbuffering” TYPE=”Bool16″
>false</PREF>
To: <PREF NAME=”disable_overbuffering” TYPE=”Bool16″
>true</PREF>

and

From: <PREF NAME=”overbuffer_rate” TYPE=”Float32″
>2.0</PREF>
To: <PREF NAME=”overbuffer_rate” TYPE=”Float32″
>1.0</PREF>

SMIL Scripting Guide for QuickTime

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