支援串流傳輸（streaming）有三大播放軟體，分別是Microsoft的Windows Media Player、Real公司的RealOne Player及Apple公司的QuickTime Player。其中Apple公司的QuickTime Player由於檔案格式資料及其串流伺服器QTSS（QuickTime Streaming Server）的程式碼已被公開，取得容易，是一值得深度研究的播放軟體。
本篇論文首先描述QTSS的運作、相關的串流傳輸通訊協定。其次以個人電腦叢集系統為基礎，設計了一個相容於QTSS的叢集式串流伺服器之架構，設計的理念是以提供穩定、高效率、具有擴充性的串流服務為目的，讓使用者可以利用QuickTime Player來播放高品質影片；最後並將所設計之伺服器加以實作及驗證。
所設計的伺服器架構可細分成叢集系統硬體組成架構、客戶端與伺服器間的網路封包處理架構、伺服器內部架構三部分，在論文中分別加以詳細說明，並在實作後對其效能加以測試及分析，以證明所提出之架構的可行性。

Currently there are three popular multi-media players - Windows Media Player published by Microsoft Company, RealOne Player published by Real Company, and QuickTime Player published by Apple Company. Because the document of QuickTime file format and the source code of QuickTime Streaming Server are opened and easy to acquire, QuickTime Player is thus worth to be researched further.
This paper first describes the execution flow of the QTSS and related streaming protocol. Then we design the architecture of a PC Cluster-Based QTSS-compatible Streaming Server. The purpose of this design is providing scalable, stable and efficient streaming service so that users can play movies with high quality by the QuickTime Player. Finally we implement the server and test it.
The framework of the server we designed has three important parts - the hardware architecture formed by the cluster system, the processing architecture of the packages transferred between clients and the server, and the software architecture supporting working mechanism of important components. We expand the three parts of the framework in this paper and test and analyze the performance of the server to prove the feasibility of this framework.

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