Darwin Streaming Server

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| name = Darwin Streaming Server

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| author = Apple Inc.

| developer = Apple Inc.

| released = March 16, 1999

| latest release version = 6.0.3

| latest release date = May 10, 2007

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| operating system = OS X, Linux, Windows

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| genre = RTSP server

| license = Apple Public Source License

| website = http://dss.macosforge.org/

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Darwin Streaming Server (DSS) was the first open sourced RTP/RTSP streaming server.{{cite book|author=Phil Sherry|title=Foundation Mac OS X Web Development|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GUgnCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA278|date=11 November 2013|publisher=Apress|isbn=978-1-4302-5133-0|pages=278–}} It was released March 16, 1999 and is a fully featured RTSP/RTP media streaming server capable of streaming a variety of media types including H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 Part 2 and 3GP.

Development

Developed by Apple, it is the open source equivalent of QuickTime Streaming Server, and is based on its code.

Ports

The initial DSS source code release compiled only on OS X, but external developers quickly ported the code to Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris,{{Cite web |url=http://www.nbl.fi/~nbl97/solaris/media/streaming/ |title=Darwin Streaming Server on Solaris |access-date=2007-12-25 |archive-date=2011-06-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612092848/http://www.nbl.fi/~nbl97/solaris/media/streaming/ |url-status=dead }} Tru64 Unix, Mac OS 9 and Windows.

Source code is available as a release download or as development code via CVS.

See also

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