{"id":5880,"date":"2008-06-18T11:49:09","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T18:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/18\/5880\/"},"modified":"2008-06-18T11:49:09","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T18:49:09","slug":"using-ustream-to-broadcast-videos-on-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=5880","title":{"rendered":"Using UStream to broadcast videos on OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/\">UStream<\/a> is pretty awesome, the &#8220;youtube of streaming video.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Most of the streams are just cute girls sitting in front of their computers chatting with their viewers.  This doesn&#8217;t help me so much.  I want to broadcast my movies and concerts I&#8217;ve recorded!<\/p>\n<p>So, I pieced together what one needs to do, to broadcast pre-recorded video on the Mac (I&#8217;m on OS X, &#8220;Leopard&#8221;).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>start Quicktime and load up your video<\/li>\n<li>move the your video to a corner of your desktop, preferably not near your dock nor the menu bar<\/li>\n<li>\n<ul>install and use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allocinit.com\/index.php?title=CamTwist\">CamTwist<\/a> to capture a part of your desktop<\/p>\n<li>some people use CamTwist to put effects into their webcam signal<\/li>\n<li>use the &#8220;desktop&#8221; selector and make a box around your Quicktime movie<\/li>\n<li>use the Preview function to line it up correctly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li> install <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cycling74.com\/products\/soundflower\">SoundFlower<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>open your System Preferences and select the Sound panel<\/li>\n<li>you should see SoundFlower there listed as a speaker selection.  Pick that!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>NOW start ustream and start a broadcast\n<ul>\n<li>select CamTwist as your video source<\/li>\n<li>select SoundFlower as your audio source<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now be careful, because all sound generated by your computer (for example the &#8220;you&#8217;ve got mail!&#8221; sound) will be in the stream!  I shut down all my applications that make noise while I&#8217;m broadcasting.<\/p>\n<p>When I&#8217;m broadcasting, I am at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/channel\/bu-yao-xi-shou-jian\">http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/channel\/bu-yao-xi-shou-jian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UStream is pretty awesome, the &#8220;youtube of streaming video.&#8221; Most of the streams are just cute girls sitting in front of their computers chatting with their viewers. This doesn&#8217;t help me so much. I want to broadcast my movies and concerts I&#8217;ve recorded! So, I pieced together what one needs to do, to broadcast pre-recorded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}