How to setup Darwin Streaming Server on Windows

PS: Part 2 of this article can be found here.

What is Darwin Streaming Server?

Darwin Streaming Server is an open source, free to use streaming server from Apple. The commercial version of this server is the Quick Time Streaming Server.

Where do I get it from?

The Darwin streaming server source code can be downloaded here. You need an Apple ID for this. Registration is free – go get an Apple ID for yourself.

How do I install?

Once you download the source code, you will see a install.bat in the root directory. Just double click on it and the batch file will copy the necessary files under C:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server. This is all the installation required.

How do I start streaming?

Along with the source code, Apple ships a few sample video clips which are ready to be streamed. All these video clips are under the C:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\Movies folder. You can stream any of these video clips and view it on a player. Open up a command prompt. Go to C:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server and start Darwin server by typing DarwinStreamingServer.exe -d. If all is fine, you will get some INFO messages and a message that says ‘Streaming Server done starting up’. This means the server is up and ready to accept client connections.

If you get an error something like ‘WARNING: Another process is already using the following RTSP port: 554’, then the Darwin Service is already running in the background and you don’t have to start the server explicitly.

Your server is ready and all set to stream.

How do I connect using a player?

VLC Player: File->Open Network Stream. Select RTSP and give the URL as rtsp://localhost:554/sample_100kbit.mp4

QuickTime player: File->Open URL. Give the URL as rtsp://localhost:554/sample_100kbit.mp4

If all is fine, you should see an animated ‘Q’ – logo of Quick Time.

More info?

Google is of course there.

Administrator’s guide.

FAQ.

Darwin users mailing list.

77 thoughts on “How to setup Darwin Streaming Server on Windows

  1. Ram says:

    Hi,
    I installed Darwin. While starting it using “DarwinStreamingServer.exe -d”, it’s throwing error like
    WARNING: Another process is already using the following RTSP port: 554
    WARNING: Another process is already using the following RTSP port: 7070
    WARNING: Another process is already using the following RTSP port: 8000
    WARNING: Another process is already using the following RTSP port: 8001
    WARNING: Streaming Server failed to listen on all requested RTSP port(s).
    WARNING: Streaming Server is not listening for RTSP on any ports.

    Please help me to resolve the problem.

    Thank you
    Ram

  2. Anaamica says:

    Ram,

    I guess you didn’t read my post properly. See here:

    “If you get an error something like ‘WARNING: Another process is already using the following RTSP port: 554′, then the Darwin Service is already running in the background and you don’t have to start the server explicitly.”

  3. Saraw says:

    C:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server>DarwinStreamingServer.exe -d
    INFO: Module Loaded…QTSSRefMovieModule [dynamic]
    INFO: Module Loaded…QTSSFileModule [static]
    INFO: Module Loaded…QTSSReflectorModule [static]
    INFO: Module Loaded…QTSSRelayModule [static]
    INFO: Module Loaded…QTSSAccessLogModule [static]
    INFO: Module Loaded…QTSSFlowControlModule [static]
    INFO: Module Loaded…QTSSPosixFileSysModule [static]
    INFO: Module Loaded…QTSSAdminModule [static]
    INFO: Module Loaded…QTSSMP3StreamingModule [static]
    INFO: Module Loaded…QTSSAccessModule [static]
    WARNING: No users file found at c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\qtusers
    .
    WARNING: No groups file found at c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\qtgrou
    ps.
    Streaming Server done starting up

  4. navneet.Gupta says:

    Coool yaar thanks for this usefull help
    Regrads
    Navneet Gupta

  5. chris says:

    So I get the test videos working great, but I can’t seem to get any other videos working other then the samples… anyone else had this problem? I’ve tried even converting videos to IPOD/Quicktime H.264, and still get errors trying to open them.

  6. Windows Guy says:

    Doesn’t anybody distribute an already compiled version of Darwin Streaming Server? I don’t have the resources to compile the code myself.

  7. Vinay says:

    Hi all,

    I installed DSS 5.5.1 on windows XP, but unable to stream thru any client, I am getting the following message after i gave
    “DarwinStreamingServer.exe -d ” is my server up, Pls help

    Could not load configuration file at c:\Program Files\DarwinStreaming Server\streamingserver.cfg.
    Generating a new prefs file at c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\streamingserver.xml
    INFO: Module Loaded…QTSSRefMovieModule [dynamic]
    INFO: Module Loaded…QTSSFileModule [static]
    INFO: Module Loaded…QTSSReflectorModule [static]
    INFO: Module Loaded…QTSSRelayModule [static]
    INFO: Module Loaded…QTSSAccessLogModule [static]
    INFO: Module Loaded…QTSSFlowControlModule [static]
    INFO: Module Loaded…QTSSPosixFileSysModule [static]
    INFO: Module Loaded…QTSSAdminModule [static]
    INFO: Module Loaded…QTSSMP3StreamingModule [static]
    INFO: Module Loaded…QTSSAccessModule [static]
    WARNING: No users file found at c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\qtusers
    .
    WARNING: No groups file found at c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\qtgrou
    ps.
    Streaming Server done starting up

    Thanks
    Vinay

  8. Comic says:

    I think I need to download Perl, but how do you work Perl?

  9. Ashutosian says:

    Hi, i have successed to install darwin but not know how to edit playlist and what will be rtsp:// url to play it via mobile.

  10. Zelalem says:

    Hi I wanted to play more than one video (stored in different files) altogether. I tried to create playlist and called the playlist in the rtsp url, but didn’t work. Does anyone have ever tried to play multiple streams one after the other? Please help me. BTW, I am using ubuntu.

    Thanks in advance

  11. Paulo says:

    Hi,

    Do you know if the DSS works with VISTA? I made it work with XP. I get an error message that I have to install activeperl. But I already have perl installed.

    • raj says:

      you have to download msvcrt.exe from microsoft website and follows the readme.txt of this msvcrt

    • mosa says:

      Hi,
      Did you get the DSS working on vista ? If so please share how to get it working on Windiows Vista. I too get the same error , saying I need to install activeperl, although I have already installed activeperl.

      Thanks. Appreciate any inputs.

  12. raj says:

    Hi,
    I am using DSS on the windows plateform. I want to know how do i rtsp stream of my web cam through DSS in xp

  13. ziathegreat says:

    i have download darwin streaming server 6.0.3
    and install it on windows xp 2006 according to instruction given for windows

    but when i run in browser the address
    like this
    “http://127.0.0.1.:1220”
    it create error which is
    “Connect Failed: Unknow Error”

    please help me for this problem

    i have done every thing according to instruction but don’t know what happen.

    • RajaSekharReddy says:

      Open up command prompt and run the following command for web administration purposes:
      C:\Perl\bin\perl “C:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\streamingadminserver.pl”
      (Note: Do not close this window or web administration won’t work but server will run, you can
      also copy the command to bat file and place it in the Windows startup folder)
      Note: On Windows it may be necessary to reset the administrative password before running streamingserveradmin.pl, the Perl administrative server. You can create/reset the administrative password on Windows with the following command:
      C:\Perl\bin\perl “C:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\WinPasswdAssistant.pl”
      If you don’t have perl s/w, here is the link to download.
      Download latest Active Perl distribution (needed by Windows OS for web administration) http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActivePerl/

      • zarni says:

        Hi Raja,

        Thank you for giving clue on it .. but , I had done what you had mentioned.
        But I am still getting *
        Server: Connect Failed: Unknown error
        Status: Started Thu, 1. Jan 1970 08:00:00
        Current Time On Server: Thu, 1. Jan 1970 08:00:00
        Up Time:
        DNS Name (default): Connect Failed: Unknown error
        Server Version: Connect Failed: Unknown error
        Server API Version: 0.0
        CPU Load: 0.00%
        Current # of Connections:
        Current Throughput: bps
        Total Bytes Served:
        Total Connections Served:

        I had tried this streamingadminserver.pl -d but I got this error

        C:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server>streamingadminserver.pl -d
        Couldn’t connect to the Streaming Server at 127.0.0.1 on port 554
        Please start Darwin Streaming Server from the Service Manager
        Running the startplaylists.pl script at C:/Program Files/Darwin Streaming Server
        /AdminHtml\startplaylists.pl

        I am not able to run properly this DDS on Windows XP ..

        Your help I appreciated

        Thanks

    • Mon says:

      Hi Ziathegreat,

      I think DSS only works for rtsp and not http. btw, I tried installing DSS 6.0.3 to windows XP but I got error – “couldn’t find the en language messages file”

      Can you tell me where can I find DS 6.0.3 compiled installer? I guess the one that I downloaded was only a source code.

      Thanks,
      Mon

      • fish says:

        I also got the problem that “couldn’t find the en language messages file! ”
        How could i solve it?

      • Houdini says:

        Try copying over the AdminHtml folder from the installation package to the installed folder, overwriting the empty folders that are there. That should send Pearl on its way finding the language file.

  14. jagdish says:

    Hi, there is no downloadable Darwin software onto the site for WinXP. Can somebody help me?

  15. Fanindra says:

    where is Darwin server download link ? I am seraching from last 24 hrs…

    please help me…

  16. Zen of Linux says:

    I anyone has problems getting Darwin to work on Win32, be sure to rename “streamingserver.xml-sample” to “streamingserver.xml”. Then, on command line, if you get “Couldn’t read xml file. Fatal error: Could not load configuration file at \streamingserver.xml”, then add on command line the option “-c” and add the location of the config file with full path. Also, you can go into the config file and see if all the paths are correct.

    Worked for me…

  17. Rocktronik says:

    same like chris

    i’ve got DSS running on vista(for testing/research purpose), able to play all of the sample files using VLC media player as a client…

    but if i added a new file into the folder, i can’t accessed it. already check the security , ownership and all with no satisfactory results..the new file still can be played

    vlc player gives error :
    [0x38f9e64] live555 demux error: Failed to connect with rtsp://127.0.01:554/zzzz.mp3
    [0x19ba66c] main input error: open of `rtsp://127.0.01:554/zzzz.mp3′ failed: (nu
    ll)

    anybody have the same experience?

  18. Tray says:

    When I go to C:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server and and enter DarwinStreamingServer.exe -d I get the error DarwinStreamingServer.exe is not recognized as an internal or external command operable program or batch file

    • M. coco says:

      “C:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\DarwinStreamingServer.exe” -d
      don’t forget the guillemets “” and the space between the last ” and -d

      • zarni says:

        Hi M.Co co,

        I can’t find this .exe file at that location … so I checked the installer back which this .bat file.

        There is bat command to copy that exe file from the source.

        But I searched this exe file inside my downloaded source. I can’t find it.

        Could you help me to upload this exe or other way that you can pass it to me ?

        Thanks

      • Nikil says:

        darwinstreamingserver.exe does not exist in the folder please help …

  19. Manish Kutaula says:

    A user connected to it can save the file from network. is it possible that the file can be saved and only viewed.

  20. younus saleem says:

    some findings….
    I installed the darwin on winxp sp2. To start it I ran a command in command prompt “DarwinStreamingServer.exe -d” and kept teh command prompt open as it did not exit automatically (i wished so).

    I use the sample files in movies folder they played well, but when i try to play my files they fail with some error message.(on VLC player of course).

    later i tried to find out teh sample file information and I used ffmpe to do so,
    i did the following,

    ffmpeg -i sample_h264_1mbit.mp4

    Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from ‘sample_h264_1mbit.mp4’:
    Duration: 00:01:10.01, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1019 kb/s
    Stream #0.0(eng): Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16
    Stream #0.1(eng): Video: h264, yuv420p, 380×480, 30 tbr, 30 tbn, 60 tbc
    Stream #0.2(eng): Data: rtp / 0x20707472
    Stream #0.3(eng): Data: rtp / 0x20707472

    it strangely has rtp packets in the stream and none of the streams I generated have the same.

    Anyone knows a fix. please help.

  21. younus saleem says:

    found a fix,

    I hinted the stream using MP4Box
    command is MP4box -hint filename

    that fixed it.

  22. Meg says:

    Got Connect Failed: Unknown error at the web admin page.

  23. Abood says:

    Hi, I can’t find downloadable Darwin software onto the site for WinXP. Can somebody help me?
    Thanks a lot
    Abood

  24. koko says:

    Hi, can somebody tell me where i can avail the html code for embedding video files

  25. micman says:

    This post is written is simple language and contains down-to-earth explanation. Thanks:-)

  26. Nikil says:

    following file does not exist in the folder DarwinStreamingServer.exe . it tried building using vc++ 6.0 and got some errors.i am tryin to install in windows xp . can somebody please help . i got all the executables generated except the above one.i am tryin to use darwinstreamingserver 6.0.3

    • Artemis says:

      Hello Nikil, i have the same problem as you but in greater extent, as i get errors while the building using vc++ 6.0 and then i get no executable files in the folder Darwing Streaming Server. Have you found out what is going wrong?

  27. Supriya Tenany says:

    hi,

    I have followed all the posts and still unable to conclude how the DSS gets installed successfully on the Windows XP (sp3) and come out of the following error:

    Server: Connect Failed: Unknown error
    Status: Started Thu, 1. Jan 1970 08:00:00
    Current Time On Server: Thu, 1. Jan 1970 08:00:00
    Up Time:
    DNS Name (default): Connect Failed: Unknown error
    Server Version: Connect Failed: Unknown error
    Server API Version: 0.0
    CPU Load: 0.00%
    Current # of Connections:
    Current Throughput: bps
    Total Bytes Served:
    Total Connections Served:

  28. Joy says:

    i want to test.

  29. aashish adhikari says:

    Below is the error message that i’ve got after running the Install.bat file

    —————————————————————–
    The Darwin Streaming Server has been installed.
    —————————————————————–
    Launching the web based Streaming Admin Server
    *** Closing this window will stop the Streaming Admin Server. ***
    Can’t open perl script “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\streamingadmins
    erver.pl”: No such file or directory
    —————————————————————–
    Perl is not properly installed on your system.
    This installer requires Perl to run the Streaming Admin Server.

    If you wish to use the web admin user interface to configure Darwin
    Streaming Server, you will need to perform the following steps.

    See the readme file on installing Perl.
    Please make sure the path to the Perl interpreter is in your system path
    and run

    c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\streamingadminserver.pl

    from the command prompt.
    Press any key to continue . . .

    ***************************************
    please help me on how to install the server

    • Jing Dong says:

      I have the same problem.Where is the link to download the binary code of Darwin Streaming Server ? I only download the source code from “dss.macosforge.org”.

    • Loukia says:

      Hello,

      I’m trying to install DSS 6.0.3 in Windows 7 and running the Install.bat, I receive the same message. I have edited the batch file and I’ve inserted “pause” to see the messages in detail.

      So, I saw that the file “DarwinStreamingServer.exe” is missing.

      Also, I’ ve installed Perl 5.14.2, but I don’t know how to figure it out!

      Any help will be highly appreciated.

  30. mohan says:

    hi,
    i can run the Server as well i can view the video through vlc & QTP ,then how did i access it through the Lan it is possible?…

  31. karthikeyan says:

    after installing software what i can do the process for dss

  32. ,~: I am really thankful to this topic because it really gives great information .;-

  33. nate says:

    just install ubuntu 10.10 desktop as dual boot on your server computer, then download/ install dss from here and it works just great. also use wirecast to hint the movies (w/ watermark) or mp4box which i have heard of.

    • nate says:

      my links dont work there…. use krypted.com/mac-os-x-server/quicktime-streaming-server-on-ubuntu-10 for the instructions and telestream.com/wirecast for wirecast and just google mp4box.

  34. Spencer says:

    I’m not a server guy, but an obscure audio streaming subscription service that I use doesn’t yet support iPad because iPad can’t do Adobe Flash. Could Darwin be his answer?

  35. surya says:

    hi i installed darwin video streaming server and active perl in windows xp…..but while running the darwin server in the browser like http://localhost:1220………its is showing the error Connect Failed: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it…..can anyone say the answer for this problem

    • Alec Hsiao says:

      I have the same problem at my office server,
      you have to close your firewall and Antivirus software,
      then restart the server .I think to do things above you will run Darwin Server without any problems.

  36. Houdini says:

    I can’t seem to get DSS 6.0.3 to work on windows platform – tried batch building the files and got fed up when the errors reached 7560 and counting. So, I installed version 5.5.5, which works nicely, however, how do I add IP cameras to the server?

    • Houdini says:

      …Ok, I figured it out.

      • nraab807 says:

        Can you email me the steps you took to compiling the code to an executable? I’m lost on how to do this.

      • Houdini says:

        I figured out how to add the IP cameras, but as I stated before I am using version 5.5.5 since version 6+ was a pain to compile. I am having no problems with version 5.5.5 and if you wish to use it then all you need to do is download and install (no code compiling).

      • Razacl says:

        how did you add IP cameras to the server? could you please explain (razackkpa@hotmail.com).

      • skynetprogrammer says:

        The easiest route is to locate the .sdp file for the camera (based on your camera model) and place it in the movies folder of darwin. To locate your sdp file you can log into your camera and search for it somewhere around video settings. So, if your sdp file is called live.sdp, after placing it in the movies folder, you may access it over any medium that allows the rtsp (such as QuickTime or vlc, or over browser with the appropriate plug-ins): rtsp://yourDomain:7070/live.sdp

        Your port may be different.

        Hope that helped.
        //Houdini

  37. borngold says:

    Can somebody share the DSS 6.0.3 . Even after patching and i m not able to get it up and running

  38. tiffany co says:

    thanks for shairng.I enjoy it.

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  41. hariharan says:

    thanks for your tutorial , helped a lot and working well….

  42. Kumar says:

    I am facing problem in downloading DSS. When I click the below link I dont get download option. Please help me to download the file.

    http://developer.apple.com/opensource/server/streaming/index.html

  43. Didier DVj says:

    Hi, I can not convey a MP4 video. My teacher told me to index the video. I do not understand what I do to transfer my video to MP4. Can you help?

  44. Cbours says:

    i am using windows 7 64bit
    firewall is down.
    i start Darwin from cmd DarwinStreamingServer.exe -d
    and it says to me that port 554 is already in used.

    when i go to the VLC is unable to open the MRL ‘rtsp://localhost:554/sample_100kbit.mp4’. Check the log for details.

    and i don’t know how to fix it.

  45. Mark Nikirk says:

    The batch file is wrong in the 5.5.5 version for some Windows versions. Its trying to copy from a relative directory but widows is expecting an explicit path for the source of each file. I Pasted the corrected batch file text below as an example. Hope it comes out ok in the comments.

    echo on

    echo —–
    echo Backing up old config, qtusers, and qtgroups files
    move “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\qtusers” “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\qtusers.backup”
    move “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\qtgroups” “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\qtgroups.backup”
    move “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\streamingserver.xml” “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\streamingserver.xml.backup”
    move “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\relayconfig.xml” “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\relayconfig.xml.backup”
    move “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\streamingadminserver.pem” “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\streamingadminserver.pem.backup”
    move “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\streamingadminserver.conf” “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\streamingadminserver.conf.backup”
    move “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\streamingloadtool.cfg” “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\streamingloadtool.cfg.backup”

    echo —–
    echo Creating c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\ directory
    mkdir “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\”

    echo —–
    echo Copying files
    copy c:\DarwinStreamingSrvr5.5.5\DarwinStreamingServer.exe “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\DarwinStreamingServer.exe”
    copy c:\DarwinStreamingSrvr5.5.5\streamingserver.xml “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\streamingserver.xml-sample”
    REM copy qtusers “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\qtusers”
    REM copy qtgroups “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\qtgroups”
    copy c:\DarwinStreamingSrvr5.5.5\relayconfig.xml-Sample “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\relayconfig.xml-Sample”
    copy c:\DarwinStreamingSrvr5.5.5\PlaylistBroadcaster.exe “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\PlaylistBroadcaster.exe”
    copy c:\DarwinStreamingSrvr5.5.5\MP3Broadcaster.exe “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\MP3Broadcaster.exe”
    copy c:\DarwinStreamingSrvr5.5.5\streamingadminserver.pl “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\streamingadminserver.pl”
    REM copy streamingadminserver.pem “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\streamingadminserver.pem”
    copy c:\DarwinStreamingSrvr5.5.5\qtpasswd.exe “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\qtpasswd.exe”
    copy c:\DarwinStreamingSrvr5.5.5\StreamingLoadTool.exe “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\StreamingLoadTool.exe”
    copy c:\DarwinStreamingSrvr5.5.5\streamingloadtool.cfg “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\streamingloadtool.cfg”
    copy c:\DarwinStreamingSrvr5.5.5\WinPasswdAssistant.pl “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\WinPasswdAssistant.pl”

    mkdir “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\QTSSModules\”
    copy c:\DarwinStreamingSrvr5.5.5\QTSSRefMovieModule.dll “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\QTSSModules\QTSSRefMovieModule.dll”
    REM copy QTSSRawFileModule.dll “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\QTSSModules\QTSSRawFileModule.dll”
    REM copy QTSSSpamDefenseModule.dll “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\QTSSModules\QTSSSpamDefenseModule.dll”

    mkdir “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\Playlists\”

    mkdir “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\Movies\”
    copy c:\DarwinStreamingSrvr5.5.5\sample_100kbit.mov “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\Movies\sample_100kbit.mov”
    copy c:\DarwinStreamingSrvr5.5.5\sample_300kbit.mov “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\Movies\sample_300kbit.mov”
    copy c:\DarwinStreamingSrvr5.5.5\sample_100kbit.mp4 “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\Movies\sample_100kbit.mp4”
    copy c:\DarwinStreamingSrvr5.5.5\sample_300kbit.mp4 “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\Movies\sample_300kbit.mp4”
    copy c:\DarwinStreamingSrvr5.5.5\sample.mp3 “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\Movies\sample.mp3”
    copy c:\DarwinStreamingSrvr5.5.5\sample_50kbit.3gp “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\Movies\sample_50kbit.3gp”
    copy c:\DarwinStreamingSrvr5.5.5\sample_h264_1mbit.mp4 “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\Movies\sample_h264_1mbit.mp4”
    copy c:\DarwinStreamingSrvr5.5.5\sample_h264_100kbit.mp4 “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\Movies\sample_h264_100kbit.mp4”
    copy c:\DarwinStreamingSrvr5.5.5\sample_h264_300kbit.mp4 “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\Movies\sample_h264_300kbit.mp4”

    mkdir “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\Logs\”

    rmdir /S /Q “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\Documentation”
    mkdir “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\Documentation\”
    copy c:\DarwinStreamingSrvr5.5.5\readme.pdf “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\Documentation”

    rmdir /S /Q “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\AdminHtml”
    mkdir “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\AdminHtml\”
    copy c:\DarwinStreamingSrvr5.5.5\AdminHtml\*.pl “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\AdminHtml”
    copy c:\DarwinStreamingSrvr5.5.5\AdminHtml\*.cgi “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\AdminHtml”
    copy c:\DarwinStreamingSrvr5.5.5\AdminHtml\*.html “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\AdminHtml”

    mkdir “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\AdminHtml\images\”
    copy c:\DarwinStreamingSrvr5.5.5\AdminHtml\images\*.gif “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\AdminHtml\images”

    mkdir “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\AdminHtml\includes\”
    copy c:\DarwinStreamingSrvr5.5.5\AdminHtml\includes\*.js “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\AdminHtml\includes”

    mkdir “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\AdminHtml\html_en\”
    copy c:\DarwinStreamingSrvr5.5.5\AdminHtml\html_en\* “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\AdminHtml\html_en”

    “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\DarwinStreamingServer” -i

    echo —–
    echo Adding the install dir to the system path
    RegistrySystemPathEditor.exe

    echo —–
    perl “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\WinPasswdAssistant.pl”
    cls

    echo —————————————————————–
    echo The Darwin Streaming Server has been installed.
    echo —————————————————————–
    echo Launching the web based Streaming Admin Server
    echo *** Closing this window will stop the Streaming Admin Server. ***
    perl “c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\streamingadminserver.pl”
    echo —————————————————————–
    echo Perl is not properly installed on your system.
    echo This installer requires Perl to run the Streaming Admin Server.
    echo:
    echo If you wish to use the web admin user interface to configure Darwin
    echo Streaming Server, you will need to perform the following steps.
    echo:
    echo See the readme file on installing Perl.
    echo Please make sure the path to the Perl interpreter is in your system path
    echo and run
    echo:
    echo c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\streamingadminserver.pl
    echo:
    echo from the command prompt.

    pause

  46. jacky says:

    hey i unzip the code of darwin and installed active perl but i am not able to find the C:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server folder. Please help me guyz to find it.

  47. Greetings! Very helpful advice within this post! It’s the little changes that make the largest changes. Many thanks for sharing!

  48. david says:

    Hi. I have Darwin Streaming Server running on a Mac, but I want to stream from a PC Webcam. I have been unable to find an app for Win7 that will allow me to send a stream to DSS. Do you have any suggestions?

    Thanks

  49. Razacl says:

    How to live stream from a web cam connected the computer

  50. Great site. Thank you for posting

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