Introduction to QuickTime Streaming Guide

QuickTime streaming allows QuickTime movies to play on a client computer while being transmitted from a server. This document describes the basics of QuickTime streaming and the types of protocols supported.

The document also describes in detail the requirements for packetizer components that divide movies into packets for streaming and reassemble packets into movies for display on the receiving end. It lists the functions relevant to media packetizers and reassemblers, along with common streaming error codes.

You need to read this chapter if you want to do any of the following:

• play streamed movies within your application

• write RTP server software that transmits streamed QuickTime movies

• write a media packetizer

• write a media reassembler

Organization of This Document

This book is divided into the following chapters:

• About QuickTime Streaming discusses the basics of QuickTime streaming and the variety of protocols that can be used to stream QuickTime movies.

• Using QuickTime Streaming describes from a programming perspective how to create, send, and receive streamed movies.

• Media Packetizers describes the media packetizer and packet builder, and tells you how to build a packetizer.

• Packet Reassemblers tells you how to build a packet reassembler.

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