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Due to GomTV changes, this is no longer available.
Old content below for reference only.
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I got annoyed with how GOM Player has become increasingly unreliable trying to navigate to streams, giving "You need GOMTV" or empty pages instead of content. So I developed a little hack to work around it by making my own GOM Player "homepage". It will show upcoming live games with a one-click button to High and Low bitrate, as well as recent VODs (powered by VOD-O-Matic!).
Screenshot:
How To Use:
You need to trick Gom Player into connecting to the alternate page instead of the real page. To do this, you will need to edit the IP for tv.gomtv.com in your hosts file to 65.98.84.21.
Windows XP Users
This may work on Vista too, I don't know whether Vista keeps the hosts file in the same place though.
1. Start, Run
2. Type in:
notepad %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
and hit OK
3. You should see Notepad open up the hosts file. At the bottom of the file should be "127.0.0.1 localhost".
4. At the very end of the hosts file, add the following on a new line:
65.98.84.21 tv.gomtv.com
Save and exit notepad.
5. Close GOM Player if it's running.
6. Start GOM Player and you should see the new index.
To undo this, delete the line you added in step 4.
NOTE: I have not tested the Live Stream functionality yet, as there haven't been any live streams to test with  . Rest assured if there are problems when a live game begins, I will correct them ASAP.
Let me know if this works (or doesn't) for you!
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O_o I'm going to love you soo much if this works!
edit: :O works like a charm, no lag at all O.O <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
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It worked perfectly fine for me!
GW!
Hope it will be to good use for online stream links too
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GREAT THANX!
Can't wait for MSL Ro16 to test it.
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is awesome32274 Posts
GREAT JOB!
R1CH is the man. *bows*
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wow, thanks so much
that "you need GOMTV" page was so annoying when I tried to watch live games
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Works perfectly for VODS, thanks!
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Burned Toast
Canada2040 Posts
You deserve that blue star ! : )
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Melbourne5338 Posts
Thanks R1CH. Hopefully it'll be perfect for the proleague round 2 finals!
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Works on Vista.
I love you.
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Thanks, I might be able to get gom to actually work now!
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hm, it says that it can't find the hosts file
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uhh question. do you need the newest version of GomPlayer or no? cuz i dont have the newest and when i did it it is still the same 0_0
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holy shit whats this hacks??
I can read English now!
Edit: the error 0x0000071 or some crap still happening. You can still get around it by clicking 'no' (right button) and keep spaming the Play button till it works.
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Germany2896 Posts
On January 22 2008 03:00 Sunyveil wrote:
hm, it says that it can't find the hosts file
Which version of Windows are you using? On win9x the hosts file is placed somewhere else in the windowsdirectory, i don't remember the exact location. google knows.
good yob btw. I was never able to figure out how to use Gom correctly (and it shows scriptingerrors after every click)
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I'm using winxp, and when I try to save the file it says "Cannot create the file. Make sure the path and filename are correct."
Does this have to do with permissions and/or the fact that HOSTS has no file extension?
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Great hack! Works perfectly. But one quick question, are these your streams aka the relay ones or the original gom streams?
Thanks.
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On January 22 2008 05:31 MasterOfChaos wrote:Show nested quote +On January 22 2008 03:00 Sunyveil wrote:
hm, it says that it can't find the hosts file Which version of Windows are you using? On win9x the hosts file is placed somewhere else in the windowsdirectory, i don't remember the exact location. google knows. good yob btw. I was never able to figure out how to use Gom correctly (and it shows scriptingerrors after every click)
xp. After giving that error, when I tried again, it found the file, but it was blank (probably because it had just created a file for it
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