Finally! uStream broadcasting from Linux

[acidfree:100] Finally! At long last I will be able to ditch horrible Windows for broadcasting on uStream! I am a member of the Lords of Tyr gaming group. I broadcast our games live over the internet using uStream on the Lords of Tyr Channel. Its not really for others to watch, although they are certainly welcome to. Really uStream is used as a remote gaming tool for members can cannot join us in person, and as a way to record sessions online in case we ever need to review something that happened in an earlier session.

uStream is awesome, but I was forced to use Windows, because it uses Flash. Flash for Linux does not support Video for Linux 2 (V4L2). Instead it uses the completely dead V4L standard. Yuck! So guess what? I couldn't use my USB camera or my Sony Digital firewire camera in Linux for uStream. But now all that is going to change! I haven't try it yet, but I just found this new project call The Flashcam Project.

It creates a loopback and forwards frames from V4L2 to V4L devices. Something I thought would be possible, but haven't the time to figure out for myself. Thank you for making this awesome little app Oliver! I'm going to give it a try tonight to make sure it works before our game tomorrow afternoon.