I had to setup our Quicktime Streaming server this week. It had been working a few years ago, but when I tried to use it this week it failed to stream. I was getting 404 errors. I checked everything. I turned off the web service to make sure it wasn't clashing. I unbound and rebound the ip address. I moved the movies to a different folder and change the movie home location. Nothing would make it work. It wouldn't even stream from Safari or the Quicktime player on the server.

After a bit of research I found that I had to hint the film. This is very easy.

Open the movie in Quicktime. Select Export. Make sure that, Movie to Hinted Movie is selected in the export option.



Click options and set as below.



I also then found out that if you have the web service turned on, Quicktime will stream over port 554. Your url should look something like this.

rtsp://x.x.x.x:554/mymovie2.mov - this will open Quicktime and play the movie

http://x.x.x.x:554/mymovie2.mov - this will play in the browser

It was a relief to get it working again