DSS(Darwin Streaming Server) install failed on OS

Question

I want to build a Darwin Streaming Server on my mac for iOS development test. But after taking the following steps which I searched from google, it fails all the time.

Method 1:

• Download from http://dss.macosforge.org/ ->Mac OS X Install -> Streaming Server;
• Install the dmg;
• It tries to open http://127.0.0.1:1220/ but fails with "This webpage is not available ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED".

Method 2:

• Download the source code of 6.0.3 version;
• $ tar xvf DarwinStreamingSrvr6.0.3-Source.tar
• $ cd DarwinStreamingSrvr6.0.3-Source
• $ wget http://www.abrahamsson.com/dss-6.0.3.patch
• $ patch -p0 < dss-6.0.3.patch
• $ ./Buildit

Then, it fails with the following words.

Darwin Streaming Server

I don't know your platform. I'll assume this is a Linux x86 platform. Please edit the BuildServer script & PlatformHeader.h to add your platform. Building for Darwin.x86_64 with gcc xcodebuild DarwinStreamingServer

=== BUILD LIBRARY TARGET AtomicLib (Library) OF PROJECT StreamingServer WITH CONFIGURATION Development ===

Check dependencies Jam is deprecated and has been removed; targets that use Jam must be upgraded to native targets. For more information on doing this, consult the Xcode documentation.

** BUILD FAILED **

The following build commands failed: Check dependencies (1 failure)"

• I tried to run ./Install, it showed me

Unable to perform install You must be logged in as root to install Darwin Streaming Server

and I don't know what to do now.

PS: I've installed Xcode on my mac and didn't find any available document about Darwin Streaming Server, or I missed it?

Hope for any help. Thanks.

Answer 1

Calios and Jessica, thank you for your answers. I'm running using OS Windows 7 and installing DSS 5.5.5 for windows, and I also meet the condition same as with you.

However, after I followed your instructions, it's not close enough with our needs, because the button will lose meaning in presentation.

So I started digging more information from another articles, and I found interesting perception from a developer at this article. He said the following:

Maybe this has something to do with the perl script which generates the web sites?*

So starting from Jens's perception, I tried to downgrade my Perl Script from version 5.26 to 5.8. This resolved my problem, the interface displays correctly as in the DSS Tutorial.

Right now I'm still working on testing the DSS function

I hope this solution will help others.

Answer 2

Well, finally I solved this issue with the help of my friend. Here's the steps of solution.

• I've given up compiling and building on my own and downloaded the dmg file.(version 6.0.3)
• Install the dmg as directions.
• Then, go to /usr/sbin in terminal and find streamingadminserver.pl and QuickTimeStreamingServer.
• Run them.
• Check if they're running with ps aux|grep streaming.
• Open http://localhost:1220/parse_xml.cgi in Safari or Chrome. It will show some textfield and a button.
• However, there's no words at all ! Go to /Library/QuickTimeStreaming/AdminHtml and edit setup_assistant2.html.
• Find line 333 and change it from return "$message{$name}"; to return $name;.
• Then it shows some understandable words, though not exact words.

Till now, it can be partly work. However, in some steps I mentioned above, for example, html editing step, I really don't know why the words just don't show and just have a try.

Save the exact steps I did here for memory. It will be wonderful if it can help anyone or anyone have some good idea about it.

Thanks.

Answer 3

@SouravGupta, I am a newbie for stackoverflow, so I could not add comment to reply your question.

I just installed DDS 6.0.3 on Mac OS X El Capitan. I hit the same problem you had. I found that ** return "$message{$name}"; ** is no longer in setup_assistant2.html. It is in parse_xml.cgi (/Library/QuickTimeStreaming/AdminHtml). Just search for "sub foundString". There were two return places there. You need to change both in order to make it work.

It seems that DDS web admin software has localization function. Html files only contain string keywords. It suppose to use that "foundString" function to get translated string from keywords. However, for some reason, it returns empty string here even if there is a "messages" file inside html_en folder. I could not spend more time to figure out why right now.

Answer 4

QTSS/DSS Web Admin 6.0.3 requires Perl version 5.16 and earlier. OS X 10.11 El Capitan installs both Perl versions 5.16 and 5.18, but it defaults to using Perl version 5.18.

In order to run QTSS/DSS Web Admin in OS X 10.11 El Capitan, you need to examine each of the Perl script (.pl) within the AdminHtml folder and change the line #!/usr/bin/perl to #!/usr/bin/perl5.16.