====== Record live streams of ustream or view them directly with mplayer ======
===== Purpose =====
  * Flash sucks!
  * Mplayer rocks.
  * Some stuff is streamed at 10pm NYC local and at this time here I am rarely awake.

The presented solution makes it possible to record/save or directly watch ustream streams.
And all entirely without flash.
===== Script =====
See: [[https://github.com/bkbme/bkbme_scripts/raw/master/ustream/ustream_recorder.sh|ustream_recorder.sh]]
===== Example =====
<code bash>
sh ustream_recorder.sh "http://www.ustream.tv/channel/adafruit-industries" /tmp/test.flv
</code>
This call records the supplied ustream channel to /tmp/test.flv. If there is currently no live streaming, the script will exit without writing anything to /tmp/test.flv

====== Links ======
  * [[https://github.com/bkbme/bkbme_scripts/|github repo]]