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GomTV via VLC (Chrome Extension) - Page 11
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tsuxiit
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Thanks alot starhammer! | ||
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juked
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joeythetoss
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SilentShout
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TheValley
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derElbe
Germany571 Posts
but it won't work. that's kind of frustrating  thanks for all the help anyways guys  | ||
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dafunk
France521 Posts
Open it with VLC and it should work. | ||
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derElbe
Germany571 Posts
which confused me for quiet a while now  | ||
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Tim17
France39 Posts
Anyway thx for the support guys | ||
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TheBird
United States6 Posts
This method involves changing the VLC user agent to KPeerClient, which can either be done via the gui as so: ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/sB3S3.png) or via the command line by starting VLC with this command line option: + Show Spoiler + --http-user-agent=KPeerClient After that, you try to open the stream normally (Open Network Stream and paste your stream link). It probably won't work (it will give you the old MRL error), but after repeated attempts it will eventually go through. I have no idea why it sometimes opens and sometimes fails. My guess is that either GOM simply changed their software over the past week or so without actually trying to stop or even paying any mind to third party streaming, resulting in these VLC shenanigans, or that whatever process they're using to block VLC streaming only works about half the time, even when you try doing the exact same thing to circumvent it in both cases (which from a programming standpoint makes no sense whatsoever). Now, if you're trying to save the stream to a file that you can watch later, I recommend that you practice beforehand with some other stream because the process to do so is more lengthy than simply watching the stream, and repeatedly trying (and failing) to get the stream converted and piped to a file will become very frustrating given the fact that VLC will only be able to start streaming successfully about half the time. | ||
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derElbe
Germany571 Posts
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TheBird
United States6 Posts
Seeing as I was the only one having success with the method I just posted, I'm starting to think the only reason I'm getting it to work (and it only working occasionally) was that someone else in my dorm was also streaming GSL (very likely given my dorm) and that GOM's side, already having a "normal" stream going, would send packets to our router, which sent them both to me and the other guy (just a theory, probably not right). So, I've established that my previous method does not work... However, I just devised a way to get it to work 100% of the time, and on all operating systems. It involves using curl. It is a very common utility that is usually installed by default on many Linux distributions, so if you have Linux, it may already be installed. If not (or if you are on a different operating system), just download it from the site: http://curl.haxx.se/download.html Ok, first get your stream URL via http://mystarcraft2clan.com/blog/permanent-gomtv-live-vlc-link or some other method of your choice. Next, open a command line or terminal window and run this command (windows users need to run this command in the same folder where they extracted curl.exe): + Show Spoiler + curl -A "KPeerClient" "*your stream URL*" > stream (obviously replacing *your stream URL* with the URL you got earlier) At this point, you'll see a file called stream in the folder you happened to be in when you ran that. It contains the raw data from the steam and as such it constantly growing in size. Opening steam in VLC as a file will allow you to watch the GSL. As an extra bonus, the stream is essentially saved to your computer as a result of this method (the stream file that we piped the curl output into), so once the stream is over, you can open the file up in VLC again and have VLC convert it into and .mp4 or whatever. After you do that, you can delete the old stream file. I'll try to make this a bit more coherent when i get the time and maybe include pictures too (also probably shouldn't have called the file stream - it might be confusing since I also talk about the GSL stream itself). I will also probably write some kind of perl script or something to do this all automatically soon. | ||
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CosciaSi
Canada39 Posts
On March 19 2011 15:36 starhammer wrote: Working on OSX: 1. Open Safari 2. in safari go: "Safari->Preferences->Advanced", check "Show Develop menu in menu bar' 3. close preferences. go to "Develop->User Agent->Other..." 4. enter "KPeerClient" 5. go to http://mystarcraft2clan.com/blog/permanent-gomtv-live-vlc-link enter your gom email/password and enter the resulting URL into Safari (make sure it's the same window you changed the User Agent in) 6. A download will start called "view.cgi". Keep this running 7. Run VLC, Open the file "view.cgi" which should be in your downloads folder. Success!! That's incredible! I was using GomPlayer as the agent because that's what this forum had said to do so... but this worked! | ||
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tubs
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On March 22 2011 19:23 CosciaSi wrote: Success!! That's incredible! I was using GomPlayer as the agent because that's what this forum had said to do so... but this worked! Can confirm this works with the latest version of Snow Leopard 10.6.7 as well. Awesome workaround to be able to view GSL on the Mac using VLC! Thanks. | ||
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Tear388
United States59 Posts
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LaChrymator
Canada17 Posts
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dafunk
France521 Posts
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CosciaSi
Canada39 Posts
On March 22 2011 19:23 CosciaSi wrote: Success!! That's incredible! I was using GomPlayer as the agent because that's what this forum had said to do so... but this worked! Ok so it doesn't work again. Worked before but now the view.cgi won't download. Maybe the user agent changed again?? | ||
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CosciaSi
Canada39 Posts
On March 22 2011 19:14 TheBird wrote: + Show Spoiler + Seeing as I was the only one having success with the method I just posted, I'm starting to think the only reason I'm getting it to work (and it only working occasionally) was that someone else in my dorm was also streaming GSL (very likely given my dorm) and that GOM's side, already having a "normal" stream going, would send packets to our router, which sent them both to me and the other guy (just a theory, probably not right). So, I've established that my previous method does not work... However, I just devised a way to get it to work 100% of the time, and on all operating systems. It involves using curl. It is a very common utility that is usually installed by default on many Linux distributions, so if you have Linux, it may already be installed. If not (or if you are on a different operating system), just download it from the site: http://curl.haxx.se/download.html Ok, first get your stream URL via http://mystarcraft2clan.com/blog/permanent-gomtv-live-vlc-link or some other method of your choice. Next, open a command line or terminal window and run this command (windows users need to run this command in the same folder where they extracted curl.exe): + Show Spoiler + curl -A "KPeerClient" "*your stream URL*" > stream (obviously replacing *your stream URL* with the URL you got earlier) At this point, you'll see a file called stream in the folder you happened to be in when you ran that. It contains the raw data from the steam and as such it constantly growing in size. Opening steam in VLC as a file will allow you to watch the GSL. As an extra bonus, the stream is essentially saved to your computer as a result of this method (the stream file that we piped the curl output into), so once the stream is over, you can open the file up in VLC again and have VLC convert it into and .mp4 or whatever. After you do that, you can delete the old stream file. I'll try to make this a bit more coherent when i get the time and maybe include pictures too (also probably shouldn't have called the file stream - it might be confusing since I also talk about the GSL stream itself). I will also probably write some kind of perl script or something to do this all automatically soon. I tried this. As per my previous post, it seems it isn't working. Perhaps KPeerClient is wrong. Why would Gom want to stop mac users from watching GSL? It's free SQ anyways... very confusing. | ||
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TheSilverfox
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