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I have been broadcasting my desktop for a couple of days, mainly because I would need to test my x11grabr. I recalled more than a year ago, I would need to set up things in order to get streaming out. ( You might be seeing a new box showing up at the end of this box, which would be telling you click on the play button! )

#!/bin/bash
# 2011-09-06T06:45:42Z

VIDEO_SIZE="630x352"
FPS="15"

STREAM_KEY="<INSERT YOU KEY HERE>"
STREAM_URL="rtmp://live.justin.tv/app/$STREAM_KEY"


/path/to/x11grabr/x11grabr -s "$VIDEO_SIZE" -r "$FPS" -bnone |
ffmpeg -f rawvideo -pix_fmt bgra -s "$VIDEO_SIZE" -r "$FPS" -i - \
       -f alsa -ac 1 -ar 11025 -i pulse \
       -vcodec libx264 -vpre baseline \
       -acodec libmp3lame -ab 32k \
       -threads 0 \
       -f flv "$STREAM_URL"
       #-f alsa -ac 2 -ar 22050 -i pulse \
       #-acodec pcm_s16le \
       #-acodec libmp3lame -ab 64k \
       #-acodec aac -strict experimental -ab 64k \
       #-acodec aac -strict experimental \

ffmpeg -f x11grab -pix_fmt bgra -s "$VIDEO_SIZE" -r "$FPS" -i :0.0 \
       # the rest of stuff

servers = (
  {
    address = "livibetter.jtvirc.com";
    chatnet = "jtvme";
    port = "6667";
    password = "<YOUR JTV PASSWORD>";
    use_ssl = "no";
    ssl_verify = "no";
  }
);

chatnets = {
  jtvme = { type = "IRC"; };
};

channels = (
  { name = "#livibetter"; chatnet = "jtvme"; autojoin = "yes"; },
);

#!/bin/bash

# Go Live -> Start Broadcasting

VIDEO_SIZE="hd480"
FPS="15"

STREAM_KEY="<INSERT YOU KEY HERE>"
# flashver part is important
STREAM_URL="rtmp://1.486020.fme.ustream.tv/ustreamVideo/486020/$STREAM_KEY flashver=FMLE/3.0\20(compatible;\20FMSc/1.0)"

/path/to/x11grabr/x11grabr -s "$VIDEO_SIZE" -r "$FPS" -bnone |
ffmpeg -f rawvideo -pix_fmt bgra -s "$VIDEO_SIZE" -r "$FPS" -i - \
       -f alsa -ac 2 -ar 22050 -i pulse \
       -vcodec libx264 -vpre baseline \
       -acodec libmp3lame -ab 48k \
       -f flv "$STREAM_URL"
       # can use flv as well
       # -vcodec flv \
       #-b 1000 -vframes 500 \
       # -threads 0 \
       #-f alsa -ac 2 -ar 22050 -i pulse \
       # -acodec pcm_s16le \
       #-acodec libmp3lame -ab 32k \
       #-acodec libmp3lame -ab 64k \
       #-acodec aac -strict experimental -ab 64k \
       #-acodec aac -strict experimental -ab 32k \
       #-acodec aac -strict experimental \

I have known Justin.tv for years, but only recently I started watching StarCraft II gaming streams. I was bored, no blogging, gotta find something else to kill time.

Just like every websites, the stream pages have too much stuff. When you just want to watch the stream and to chat, thats all. But you get a lot of stuff you dont need, that wastes browsers resource to keep them.

Yes, you can pop out the stream and chat. However, you dont want to pop them every time you want to watch. Why not just a simple URL, bookmark it, and you can get the stream and chat? Moreover, sometimes, I open two streams and one YouTube video from my subscriptions. I need something simple.

Therefore, I started writing this Clean Justin.tv Viewer, here is a screenshot to get you the idea of what I was thinking:

The viewer is seen at bottom right corner. My window manager is dwm, I switched to it only for a couple of days. The web browser is Firefox with Vimperator. Everything is as cleanly as possible. You dont see the window title bar because of dwm, you dont see space waster of browsers toolbars. The only unnecessary thing you can see is the statusline of Vimperator.

At first glance, it looks like a normal Justin.tv embed, move your mouse over below the logo, you should be able to see the controls.

I like the chat box overlays the video and I can hide the bottom bar to make the video as largely as possible.

I got few suggestions from one of my blog posts. I wasnt really testing them but only some of them.

• Grooveshark: I think this one is the best. You can edit your playlist, though that isnt easy to build a playlist with Groovesharks Flash interface in my opinion. The embedded code has only one Flashobject.
• Blip.fm: You can only embed one song only at a time.
• My Flash Fetish: This seems to have lots of users. It has many different skins. You can decided if you want it autoplay or shuffle the songs. You need to sign up in order to get the code.
• The Music Hutch
• Gcast: This one seems to serve podcast shows, but I did see someone use this to play music.

Do you have any more suggestions? leave a comment!

THE US MILITARY has ordered YouTube off of its networks and has launched its own video-sharing Web site for troops, their families and supporters.

Since May 2007, the Defense Department banned employees and soldiers from accessing social not-fighting sites including Youtube and Myspace, citing security and bandwidth issues.

—US builds Trooptube

I wonder if U.S. DoD employees watch videos on YouTube all day long? Or how would this involve bandwidth issue? If you already know American Army, then this TroopTube is really not a big thing to you.

I first visited it to see if I can find a secret LOLcat solider, but for a visitor, you can only see few videos. So I signed up as civilian friend, however, I still see no lolcat.

This sign up form is quite interesting. We all are familiar the Captcha, but when its about the Military, you have change your jargon.

So, am I having the Level 1 Security Clearance? :)

Currently the video is limited to up to 5 minutes or 20 MB, you can also mark videos as private, but how would other people watch that? I see no option to add friends or foes :). You can also comment on videos.

I think normal Internet users will not use this website, but I am really bored, just want to check out.