• 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.

See: ustream_recorder.sh

sh ustream_recorder.sh "http://www.ustream.tv/channel/adafruit-industries" /tmp/test.flv

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

• github repo