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On March 14 2011 22:23 -Archangel- wrote:
I am sorry to burst your bubble, but MAC users are even more rare then Windows Vista users.
I really see no reason for them to really support Mac to gain 100 viewers.
give support != allow hacks
There is no official way to watch gom streams so people HAVE to use hacks. I would love to watch gsl on my laptop but I don't have and will never have windows on a laptop which is mainly used for work stuff. Very disappointed on gom on this topic
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Perhaps someone from GOM will weigh in here? They've always been great with community participations. GOMTV/Junkka etc.
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Missing today's up and down matches was bad, but I'd really like to see a solution before the code S finals. I want to be able to see them live and not trying to find a re-stream during the finals.
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I'm a MAC user and I think it's ridiculous that they still don't have any MAC support. Like WTF?!?!?
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what about just running windows on a virtual machine? should work or am i wrong here?
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I obviously can't promise it'll help, but it couldn't hurt to retweet or tweet something similar;
http://twitter.com/MartijnMumbles/status/47301524686258177
@gomtvnet I'm being told the #mac version #GOMplayer doesnt let you watch #GSL anymore, is there a fix coming? & what about a Linux version?
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You might as well post this on the official GOM TV homepage, chances are higher that you're getting a response over there. Don't know why you wouldn't use the GOM player when you're a Windows user, its so much better than VLC. Too bad for the MAC & Linux users.
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On March 14 2011 23:23 BeMannerDuPenner wrote:
what about just running windows on a virtual machine? should work or am i wrong here?
Yes, that works. But you need to buy a Windows license for that and a VM is not a very efficient way of watching a stream.
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I have a few questions for the people who either can't use the GOM player on windows for whatever reason and to those on Max/Linux......
1) Have you made a post on the GOM forums saying that GOM player doesn't work for you?
2) Why make posts here on TL about a problem over which TL has no control?
3) Do you understand that GOM doesn't want people pirating their content?
If you don't use their software or make noise constantly about how it doesn't work for you then you have no right to complain. The vast majority of GOMs users have no problems what so ever with GOM player, most who have issues with it on windows just need to suck it up and keep refreshing until it works.
As for MAc/Linux users, I feel your pain, I truely do, but complain to GOM, not to TL. Send twitter messages to Tasteosis and John, make noise, in a respectable way, about how they are losing money because people can't all use the GOM player. Unless you are doing all that, then frankly you don't deserve to be heard.
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These VLC streams overload specific servers and are one possible reason why people experience lag. At least that's the case unless people are now using some other method of connecting.
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On March 14 2011 23:23 BeMannerDuPenner wrote:
what about just running windows on a virtual machine? should work or am i wrong here?
That's a bit ridiculous. It also doesn't help people who use VLC due to network issues, or people who can not reliably run a virtual machine.
It also ignores the fact that many people have been paying for this service for ~6 months and they're being inexplicably blocked from it after their money was already taken.
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On March 14 2011 23:25 Rannasha wrote:Show nested quote +On March 14 2011 23:23 BeMannerDuPenner wrote:
what about just running windows on a virtual machine? should work or am i wrong here?
Yes, that works. But you need to buy a Windows license for that and a VM is not a very efficient way of watching a stream.
well it shouldnt be hard to get windows nowadays and esp XP evryone still has around unused.
and unless you have a oooooooold macbook it should run absolutely fine.
yeah its not the most elegant way and ofc gomsupport would be nicer but giving up some gb to never have problems with the player again sounds like quite the easy solution.
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On March 14 2011 22:42 Rannasha wrote:
What's the point of pushing their own media player? It's available for free, there are no advertisements in it, what do they gain if more people use it? Also, I've never heard anyone swapping to the GOM Player as their main media player. It's an okay piece of software and it plays the GSL matches just fine, but it is outclassed by all the mainstream media players out there.
So again: Why would GOM want to push their own player rather than focus on their core business: producing and broadcasting awesome games.
edit: I just read that apparently the GOM player does display ads, shows how long it's been since I've used it. Regardless, they can easily embed the ads into the free stream rather than relying on an external program to display them. It's what pretty much every other broadcaster does as well, with good success.
Allow me to be the first person you've heard of to use GOM player for things other than GSL. For some reason it doesn't play DVDs, but it does a good job with any other video format I've tried. No problems at all.
I don't watch GSL live due to my work schudule, but I've never seen GOM player display adds when viewing other media.
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*zip* I was partially wrong 
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On March 14 2011 23:29 BeMannerDuPenner wrote:Show nested quote +On March 14 2011 23:25 Rannasha wrote:On March 14 2011 23:23 BeMannerDuPenner wrote:
what about just running windows on a virtual machine? should work or am i wrong here?
Yes, that works. But you need to buy a Windows license for that and a VM is not a very efficient way of watching a stream. well it shouldnt be hard to get windows nowadays and esp XP evryone still has around unused. and unless you have a oooooooold macbook it should run absolutely fine. yeah its not the most elegant way and ofc gomsupport would be nicer but giving up some gb to never have problems with the player again sounds like quite the easy solution.
The thing is, people shouldn't have to go about installing Windows on their Mac OS systems just to watch GSL when just days before they could watch fine via VLC.
I don't understand why we can't watch GSL using the Mac GOM Player. Probably some little bug that has been neglected to be fixed (or at least I hope that's the case) - I'd gladly use it instead if we could.
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e: I'm not good at reading. Regardless, I imagine most VLC link users do not extract their own link so nothing was "debunked"
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I can understand their concern that people are using VLC player to aid in re-streaming GSL events, but by doing so they are preventing me, a paying subscriber, from watching the series I paid for. Shocking policy decision, and I won't be getting another subscription because of this.
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On March 14 2011 23:33 entocheets wrote:Show nested quote +On March 14 2011 23:29 BeMannerDuPenner wrote:On March 14 2011 23:25 Rannasha wrote:On March 14 2011 23:23 BeMannerDuPenner wrote:
what about just running windows on a virtual machine? should work or am i wrong here?
Yes, that works. But you need to buy a Windows license for that and a VM is not a very efficient way of watching a stream. well it shouldnt be hard to get windows nowadays and esp XP evryone still has around unused. and unless you have a oooooooold macbook it should run absolutely fine. yeah its not the most elegant way and ofc gomsupport would be nicer but giving up some gb to never have problems with the player again sounds like quite the easy solution. The thing is, people shouldn't have to go about installing Windows on their Mac OS systems just to watch GSL when just days before they could watch fine via VLC. I don't understand why we can't watch GSL using the Mac GOM Player. Probably some little bug that has been neglected to be fixed (or at least I hope that's the case) - I'd gladly use it instead if we could.
i fully agree. ofcourse it should be possible.
im just abit surprised that people spend so much time trying to find more and more tricks to make it work when there is a easy solution that will work forever.
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On March 14 2011 23:24 drsnuggles wrote:
You might as well post this on the official GOM TV homepage, chances are higher that you're getting a response over there. Don't know why you wouldn't use the GOM player when you're a Windows user, its so much better than VLC. Too bad for the MAC & Linux users.
why would you pick gom player over VLC? I never had ANY video file VLC could not play. It doesn't matter if it's an original dvd, a normal .avi, a defect video file etc etc. VLC plays everything on many operating systems including the most common Linux, Mac and even Windows and it is most important: open source - which unfortunately the gom player is not
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On March 14 2011 23:36 lowercase wrote:
I can understand their concern that people are using VLC player to aid in re-streaming GSL events, but by doing so they are preventing me, a paying subscriber, from watching the series I paid for. Shocking policy decision, and I won't be getting another subscription because of this.
I have seen a few restreams when my GOM Player (S1~S3) or VLC (S4 & S5) didn't work, but I have only seen evidence of the restreamers using the GOM Player when they minmized it to chat during breaks or whatever. The popular streaming websites just stream whatever is shown on your desktop and it isn't any easier to restream with VLC than it is with the GOM Player.
So shutting down VLC access won't shut down restreamers.
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