Quicktime Streaming Server

I spent part of today and yesterday reaquainting myself with the ins and outs of Apple's Quicktime Streaming Server. it's changed a bit since the last time we used it, and is now administered through the Server Admin tool, which is a good thing.

what we're trying to do is use the streaming server to deliver the video content of the online course that the department is creating. I'm not sure that it will be able to, however, since the movies were created in flash, and exported to Quicktime, and don't seem to be of proper streaming format. I suspect that this is partially due to the interactivity of them. I want to see if they just need to be hinted, or if they really can't be used. (I'm leaning towards the latter).

the tool that I'm really interested in trying is the QTSS Publisher. from the looks of the docs, you can use this to create playlists of media, which can be made to look like a live broadcast. this might be useful if we wanted to develop an online class that had its content broadcast only during certain parts of the day, or something like that. whether this would actually be useful or not is to be seen, but it's worth investigating.