The key for me was a program called XSplit. I've watched a lot of other people stream League of Legends on own3d.tv and so I decided to make a channel there. They suggest using XSplit so I downloaded it and installed it. After setting up XSplit, I clicked broadcast to my own3d channel, and nothing showed up. It seemed like I was broadcasting, but even my friends couldn't see anything on my channel for some reason. The only time video would show up is when I'd turn off the broadcast. A brief amount of video would get through right at the end of the broadcast. I still haven't figured out why XSplit didn't work for me with own3d (I might need to open ports or something).
So I decided to try out my ustream.tv account that I'd already set up in my previous attempt at streaming since XSplit has an option to use a ustream account. Magically, it just worked. I did spend some time playing around with the settings in XSplit to get the sound to work right, but I was able to broadcast 2 hours of minecraft just fine. Then I decided to play a couple games of League of Legends, and they also worked just fine. One thing I'd noticed other streamers using to get LoL to work in windowed fullscreen mode, was a program to shift the window slightly. This thread on the LoL forums tells you where to get the program and how to set it up.
I also tried streaming a Starcraft 2 game, but the stream was kinda choppy, probably because I had the graphics a little too high. In the end, I'm glad to have streaming set up on my computer and I hope my experience with setting it up can help other people in the future
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