I've been messing around with some new hardware to replace my old "BubbaTV" MythTV box. It still requires a ton of tweaking to get everything to work right. One of the things that I have noticed (besides the fact that Adobe's Flash program seems to be getting buggier and less stable over time) is that there is a new beta 64-bit Flash client available. Because the existing one barely works on my new quad core AMD MythTV box (sadly, its slower than Flash on some of my Linux PC's that are 5 years old) I decided to install it.

I had already found a script that installs Flash 10 32-bit directly from the Adobe website and had edited it to install the  64-bit version. Then I realized that Alejandro Quervo had pretty much already done the exact same thing first. So I'll give him all the credit :).

The sad thing is that 64-bit Flash seems to run about as crappy as the 32-bit Flash did before. Maybe I'll look into upgrading to the latest Nvidia drivers and see if that fixes things. 

Thanks to Alejandro I also just read that Sun Java has a 64-bit Firefox plugin now too! I'm install that right away in my build as well!

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.