Welcome to Darwin Streaming Server, the open source version of Apple’s QuickTime Streaming Server technology that allows you to send streaming media to clients across the Internet using the industry standard RTP and RTSP protocols. Based on the same code base as QuickTime Streaming Server, Darwin Streaming Server provides a high level of customizability and runs on a variety of platforms allowing you to manipulate the code to fit your needs.

Who should use Darwin Streaming Server?

While sharing the same code base as QuickTime Streaming Server (QTSS), Darwin Streaming Server (DSS) is an open source project intended for developers who need to stream QuickTime and MPEG-4 media on alternative platforms such as Windows, Linux, and Solaris, or those developers who need to extend and/or modify the existing streaming server code to fit their needs. Darwin Streaming Server is only supported by the open source community and is not eligible for technical support from Apple. Apple hosts a number of email discussion lists for Darwin Streaming Server users and developers to share ideas and discuss deployment scenarios.

DSS and QTSS are built on a core server that provides quality of service features like Skip protection and Instant-On, and support for the digital media standards, MPEG-4 and 3GPP.

Darwin Streaming Server is available as a free download under the Apple Public Source License.

Discussion Lists

streaming-server-users

Discussion list for QuickTime Streaming Server users.

streaming-server-dev

Discussion list for QuickTime Streaming Server developers..

Articles

Frequently Asked Questions (updated for v6.0.3)

Find answers to common questions about Darwin Streaming Server.

Darwin Streaming Server 6.0.3

Source Code

Streaming Server 6.0.3 server and proxy source code.

Mac OS X Install

Streaming Server

Streaming Proxy

For Mac OS X 10.5 and later.

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Previous releases

Download past DSS releases.