Has somebody a good guide for getting started using Darwin Streaming Server and Darwin Proxy Server? I've searched in the Internet with no success.
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I've been using it for about a year and a half now, and it appears to be a black box. No instrumentation, no decent low-level docs, not much community around it. The only advice I have is that, depending on the OS, you will probably need to try out both version 5.5.5 and the version 6 builds, and then resort to source compile. In my experience, both of those versions binary builds segfault on FC/CentOS with absurd regularity. The binary builds also defecate on your filesystem in a lot of stupid ways.
At the beginning we considered using DSS because it was free and it was Apple. However we switched to Wowza Media Server later on, since DSS had limited support and a lack of community around it.
If you are determined to go with DSS check out its admin's guide.
For what it's worth, we looked at it, tried to use it, failed utterly (which is saying something for the BSD nerd I have working with me), and ended up going with Real Media's Helix server.
This is the tutorial i used: http://blog.rachaelbond.com/darwin-media-server/
When that is done and you are on the localhost:1220 page, go to playlists and add an mp4 file to test with. Then click play next to the new playlist's name.
For my case i had the server on a virtual machine (Ubuntu 12.04 32bits) and tested out the rtsp stream on windows using vlc.
just enter: rtsp://:554/
Worked for me!