Greetings, Tech Tails readers! A few months ago we dabbled with broadcasting live streams of our Tech Tails TV program. Our last broadcast was on Justin.tv and it was a demonstration on how we perform invasive diagnostics on a MacBook with liquid damage. If you’re curious to check out the process and see some nasty liquid damage, check out the links below!
Justin.tv offers support to send videos from its site to YouTube. This seemed like a great option for us until we ran into the problem that it’s unable to split the video up into parts. Since YouTube only accepts up to 10 minutes of video at a time (unless one has a paid account) and the Justin.tv stream was 30 minutes, it was impossible to send to YouTube as a whole. Also, since we were using a free account with Justin.tv, we were unable to download the video directly and it was set to be automatically deleted after a certain date. Now, how the heck could we get our video?
Using Download Helper, a Firefox extension, I was able to download the .flv file from Justin.tv. This easy-to-use extension is able to download video from many popular sites. The next step was to get the file into iMovie, which doesn’t read .flv files, so it could be split up into smaller segments for YouTube. Luckily, my favorite open-source solution for video conversion, Handbrake, was able to efficiently convert from a .flv to an .mp4 using one of the built-in Apple workflows. From there, I imported it into iMovie, split it up, added some title screens and, voila, I was good to go!
Want to see the finished product? Check it out:
Tech Tails TV: Live Edition Part 1 of 3
Tech Tails TV: Live Edition Part 2 of 3
Tech Tails TV: Live Edition Part 3 of 3