“The QuickTime Streaming Server is now available as a free
download for Mac OS X server. Further, Apple has released the
source code for porting the product to other platforms as part of
the revised Apple Public Source License (APSL).”
“The server is based around Apple’s QuickTime 4.0 format and
supports up to 1,000 simultaneous video streams. It can play back a
wide variety of multimedia formats including MP3, Macromedia Flash,
FlashPix, avi, and wav files.”
“QuickTime server is the first based on the Internet Engineering
Task Force’s real-time streaming protocol open standard, according
to Phil Schiller, Apple senior vice president of product
marketing.”