• Install free QuickTime™ TV software for Internet and World Wide Web use
• Upgrade existing QuickTime™ TV users to a newer version of the software with enhanced Internet and QuickTime capabilities
After running the QuickTime™ TV Installer, you will be able to:
• View live audio-video broadcasts on the worldwide Internet
• Start watching broadcasts from a web page
IMPORTANT NOTE: You should NOT run this installer on a machine configured for QTC/H.320 because the application supporting H.320 currently will not run on the QTC 1.5.8 extension that this installer will install in your system folder.
The QuickTime™ TV Installer installs:
• QuickTime™ Conferencing system extension
• QuickTime™ TV RTP Package
• QuickTime™ TV SD Listener
• "QuickTime™ TV" application, for viewing Internet, AppleTalk, and RTP broadcasts
• "Conferencing Helper Application", which is used for:
-- launching live connections via the World Wide Web
-- creating files which can launch live connections via the WWW
• QuickTime™ video and audio decoders
• QTC SNMP Agent
This release of QuickTime™ TV can watch any of the following broadcasts:
• QTTV broadcasts using IP (with or without a reflector)
• QTTV broadcasts using AppleTalk
• RTP broadcasts using IP
Basic System Requirements
• Power Macintosh or 68040 Macintosh computer
• System software version 7.5.3 Revision 2 or newer
• 16 Megabytes of memory
• Internet connection of 28.8 kbps or more
• OpenTransport 1.1.2 or later
• QuickTime™ 2.5 or later
Running the QuickTime™ TV Installer
Follow these steps to install the QuickTime™ TV software:
(1) If you are installing from the Internet web site, download the install package. Depending on your configuration, you may need to decode and/or decompress the package manually, to extract the "QuickTime™ TV Install" folder and its contents.
(2) Locate the "QuickTime™ TV Install" folder and open it. Double-click the Installer icon located in the folder.
(3) Read the disclaimer that appears, then click Accept.
(4) If the installer tells you that you must install QuickTime™ 2.5, Open Transport 1.1.2, or System 7.5.3, then do so. Then repeat steps 2 & 3.
(5) In the Easy Install dialog box, click Install. All the necessary software will be installed on your computer’s hard disk. NOTE: Custom Install is NOT recommended.
(6) When installation is complete, click Restart.
When you restart, you will find a new folder titled "QuickTime™ TV" on your hard disk. This folder contains the broadcast viewing and web browser helper applications. Note that the QuickTime™ TV Installer will install new QuickTime video decoders, H.261 and H.263, which allow for watching at low bit rates. The H.261 and H.263 decoders are PowerPC native and will only install on PowerPC machines.
Note: The installer will only install what is appropriate for your configuration. It will not install software that you already have a newer version of, nor will it install PowerPC-only pieces on 68K Macintoshes.
Important Information About Version 1.5b2 of QuickTime™ TV
QuickTime™ TV, QuickTime™ TV SD Listener, and Conferencing Helper Application are posted as free beta software to provide users with a taste of QTC functionality. Users are advised that the software has been throughly screened and all known crashing bugs have been addressed. This software has the following limitations:
• If you use classic networking, QuickTime™ Conferencing will not load and you will not be able to use QuickTime™ TV. Switch to Open Transport Networking by running the Network Software Selector (in the Apple Extras Folder), select "Use Open Transport Networking" and restart.
• The QuickTime™ TV application will expire on September 1, 1997. Be sure to check the QuickTime™ TV Web site at http://qttv.quicktime.apple.com/qttv/ for updates and announcements.
• If you are using Open Transport 1.1.2 and notice that memory isn't being released after you quit the applications, uncheck the "Load only when needed" checkbox in the options dialog in the TCP/IP control panel.
•QuickTime™ TV can interoperate with the Apple Media Conferencing software. Thus, QTTV can watch broadcasts originated by the broadcasting capabilities of AMC, but the broadcaster must be sending media in an acceptable format for the watcher. For example, a 68040 Mac can not handle receipt of H.261 video. The AMC party would need to choose 'PhotoJPEG' or 'Video' to send media to the 68040 Mac. A new application, QuickTime™ TV Broadcaster, which replaces the broadcasting capabilities of AMC, is in beta testing and is available on the QuickTime™ TV Web site.
•Pausing during recording may cause problems. Some configurations are not able to resume recording if video is paused during recording. The symptom of this problem is a blank movie (with no recorded video) after a pause. For this reason, pausing is NOT recommended during recording with QuickTime™ TV.
The QuickTime™ TV World Wide Web Home Page
To find out about the latest QuickTime™ TV software updates, information, announcements, live broadcast events, questions, answers, and related products, point your web browser at:
http://qttv.quicktime.apple.com/qttv/
To View an RTP/SDP Broadcast
• Launch the "QuickTime™ TV SD Listener" application. Let it run in the background. It will gather information on ongoing and upcoming RTP broadcasts.
• Launch the "QuickTime™ TV" application.
• Select the menu item "New RTP Channel..." from the "File" menu.
• Select the session you wish to watch and click on "Select." Note that you may have to wait a few minutes before the session you wish to watch appears in the list (depending on how long QuickTime™ TV SD Listener has been running). Alternatively, you click on "Type-in" if you know the IP address and port number of the session you wish to watch.
• The broadcast will be viewed via RTP. It may take a few seconds before you receive media.
To View a QTTV Broadcast
• Configure your MacTCP or OpenTransport TCP/IP control panel as your Internet Service Provider (ISP) recommends.
• Launch the "QuickTime™ TV" application.
• Select the menu item "New TCP/IP Channel..." from the "File" menu.
• Type in the domain name or IP address of the QTTV live broadcast you wish to watch.
• The broadcast will be viewed via the Internet.
While viewing a broadcast, you can store a "QTC Calling Card" for a QuickTime Conferencing Internet broadcast by selecting the "Save Channel..." menu item in the "File" menu. The next time you wish to tune into the broadcast you can select the "Open Channel..." option and select the QTC Calling Card for that broadcast. You can also save a single QTC Calling Card to represent a group of broadcasts. To do this, select the "Save Open Channels..." menu item while connected to the group of broadcasts. Later, when you wish to re-establlish a session with the same set of broadcasts, select the "Open Channel..." option, and then select the QTC Calling Card for that group.
Watching a broadcast can be initiated from a web page. A URL to a stored-address file (with a .qtc extension) can cause QuickTime™ TV to launch, open a "Web Calling Card" file, and attempt to make a connection to the address described in the file. The server and browser must both be properly configured for QTC; this process is described below.
Configuring a Web Browser for QuickTime Conferencing Calling Cards*
*Important NOTE: The information below describes how to use the Conferencing Helper Application with QTC Calling Cards.
Netscape Navigator 2.0 comes pre-configured for QTC calling cards. Navigator 3.0 does not.
To configure other web browsers so that they may view live broadcasts and connect to other users for videoconferences on the Internet, follow the steps listed below:
In general, for any web browser:
(1) Install the "Conferencing Helper Application" as the Helper Application for the Mime Type "video/x-qtc", with the file extension ".qtc".
Specifically for Netscape Navigator (except version 2.0), follow the directions below:
• From the Options menu, choose General Preferences.
The Preferences panel opens, showing a variety of preferences.
• Choose the "Helpers" tab at the top of the window.
The window changes to show the Helper Applications settings.
• Click on the 'New' button
• Type in the Mime type "video"
• Type in the Mime sub-type "x-qtc" and click the "OK" button.
• Type ".qtc" in the extension field.
• Set the "Action" to Launch Application.
• Click on "Browse", and then a file directory pop-up is displayed. Browse through your directories, and select the "Conferencing Helper Application" in the local "QuickTime Conferencing" folder on your hard disk. When you are done with this step, the "Conferencing Helper Application" will be displayed as the helper application for the Mime type "video/x-qtc" with action "Launch" and extension ".qtc".
• Click on the "Apply" button.
• Close the preferences panel of Navigator, and close the application. When you restart Netscape Navigator, you will now be able to launch the appropriate QuickTime Conferencing application to view live broadcasts.
QuickTime Conferencing and Firewalls
At those sites with Internet firewalls, it may be necessary to configure the firewall so that QuickTime™ TV can use certain features.
• To allow incoming QuickTime Conferencing broadcasts to be received at an Internet site, it is necessary to allow incoming TCP traffic on port 458.
• To allow QuickTime Conferencing media streams to flow in through the firewall, it is necessary to allow incoming UDP traffic with static port 458 and with dynamic port values greater than or equal to 7000.
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