I'm doing a simple app. to remotely start/stop/get status etc.
of Broadcaster. Should have something workable in the next few days.

regards,
Ian.

Ian Steele, Senior Engineer, National Film & TV School, UK.



On Jan 16, 2006, at 19:23, Keith Mitchell wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have been trying to get DSS/Broadcaster setup here on a Mac mini  
> running 10.4.x and have gotten everything up and running with the  
> GUI based broadcaster, but now I am trying to get it so I can  
> control broadcaster via DSS and/or the cmdline tools.  Ideally, I  
> want this box to be headless and administering things via vnc is  
> doable but not ideal or really all that practical.  I really would  
> like the ability to control it from either DSS or scripts.
>
> As you may have guessed, I cannot get the cmdline/DSS stuff to work  
> and I can't find anyone else who has solved this problem either (I  
> did some searching and saw some people that had the problem but  
> never any solutions).  At the moment my system is running a clean  
> 10.4 install upgraded to 10.4.4 with the only other things  
> installed is iLife and DSS/Broadcaster.  I did go through software  
> update and install all of the updates, but other than that... its a  
> clean system (this was installed via a format and install method so  
> it should be absolutely clean).
>
> No matter what I do, I can't get broadcaster to start in "noui"  
> mode.  DSS can't start it, broadcasterctl can't start it, and I  
> can't drop to a terminal window and start it either.  When I try it  
> by hand, I simply get:
>
> $ /Applications/Quicktime\ Broadcaster/Contents/MacOS/Quicktime\  
> Broadcaster -noui
> Abort trap
>
> And thats it.  The broadcastctl command just seems to hang when you  
> tell it to launch, and the DSS admin page seems to hang for a few  
> seconds and then return you back to the page that says that the  
> broadcaster isn't running.  It leaves nothing in the log dir (/var/
> log) and nothing in the console log so I don't know what the  
> problem might be... I've tried running it as a normal user, an  
> admin user, as well as via sudo and the actual root account  
> (dangerous, I know)... b ut they all behaved the same way (abort  
> trap).
>
> But as I said above, launching the app from finder seems to work fine.
>
> Anyone know what I should look at to fix this?
>
> Thanks.
>
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