QuickTime for the Web: For Windows and Macintosh, Second Edition
A comprehensive explanation of QuickTime for every multimedia author.
TABLE OF CONTENTS QuickTime for the Web: For Windows and Macintosh, Second Edition
Chapter 6: What Webmasters Need to Know
Overview
So far, we've explored things from the perspective of an HTML author, and the HTML we've been looking at should work fine from your local disk. But for the HTML to work properly over the Internet, it has to be stored on a working Web server. The person who configures the Web server is, of course, the webmaster.
As a webmaster, there are just a few things you need to know to deliver QuickTime movies from your Web server. That information is covered here. If you aren't a webmaster, forward this information to the person who administers the Web server at your company, or to the ISP (Internet Service Provider) that hosts your website.
This chapter has two sections:
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MIME Types and File Extensions
QuickTime can use HTTP or FTP to deliver multimedia content, so all the webmaster really needs to do is associate a few file extensions with the right MIME types, and your Web server is ready for QuickTime. This section lists the file extensions and MIME types.
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Server Features and Server Load
No special server features are needed to deliver QuickTime over HTTP or FTP, but sometimes adding QuickTime movies to a website can cause spikes in server load. These can be smoothed by passing the right parameters to the QuickTime plug-in. This section explains how.
QuickTime can also use RTP and RTSP to deliver multimedia streams, live transmissions, and reflected multicasts. That does require some special server software. To learn more, see Chapter 7,...
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