Below is a list of links that my research students have collected. The links point to useful information about media streaming protocols and to Quicktime development resources.
RTP and friends
Multimedia Over IP: RSVP, RTP, RTCP, RTSP
Quicktime development resources
Quicktime streaming developer documentation
O'Reilly's "A Gentle Re-Introduction to QuickTime for Java"
"Re-introducing QuickTime for Java, Part 2" (also from O'Reilly)
QTSMediaGetInfo method documentation
QTVideoMediaGetStatistics method documentation
How to use QTSMediaGetInfo (mailing list thread)
Getting Started with Quicktime