Hi,
since mac support currently does not work and ppl (like me) who are using linux are screwed anyway I thought it might be time to write a little how-to for watching gom with vlc / any player you wish.

First of all you need a season pass. This is not a hack!

Second, go to the live page on gomtv.net, now, select View->View page source.
Press strg+f and search for "var goxurl". You will get something like this:
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var goxUrl = "http://www.gomtv.net/gox/gox.gom?leagueid=21581&strLevel=" + playType + "&target=live&mb_no=(I removed this)&title="+tmpThis.title;

Next thing you need to to, is extract the HTTP string, so it will look like this:
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http://www.gomtv.net/gox/gox.gom?leagueid=21581&strLevel=" + playType + "&target=live&mb_no=(I removed this)&title="+tmpThis.title

Now you replace: " + playType + " with the playType you want. It's either SQ oder HQ, I prefer HQ :D
So next it will look like this:
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http://www.gomtv.net/gox/gox.gom?leagueid=21581&strLevel=HQ&target=live&mb_no=(I removed this)&title="+tmpThis.title

Now you may replace &title="+tmpThis.title with just nothing. It doesn't matter (at least at the time being). I did replace it with: &title=title=2011+LG+Cinema+3D+Global+StarCraft+II+League+May but I really think that this does not matter!
Now, copy the processed URL into your browser, you will see something like: "GOMTV.NET (c) Gretech Corp. All Rights Reserved"

Step three:
Again, open View->View page source, you will see something like this:
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<GOX>
<TITLE>2011 LG Cinema 3D Global StarCraft II League May</TITLE>
<ENTRY>
<TITLE>2011 LG Cinema 3D Global StarCraft II League May</TITLE>
<AUTHOR>GOMTV.NET</AUTHOR>
<COPYRIGHT>(c) Gretech Corp. All Rights Reserved</COPYRIGHT>
<REF href="http://38.108.112.171:8902/view.cgi?hid=1&cid=(removed)&nid=(removed)&uno=(removed)&uip=(removed)&title=2011+LG+Cinema+3D+Global+StarCraft+II+League+May&key=(removed)"/>
</ENTRY>

</GOX>

Next thing, copy the URL in href="...." so it will look like this:
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http://38.108.112.171:8902/view.cgi?hid=1&cid=(removed)&nid=(removed)&uno=(removed)&uip=(removed)&title=2011+LG+Cinema+3D+Global+StarCraft+II+League+May&key=(removed)

Copy this URL in something like gedit or anything similar and replace (there is a function for this in gedit) & with & so you link will look like this:
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http://38.108.112.171:8902/view.cgi?hid=1&cid=(removed)&nid=(removed)&uno=(removed)&uip=(removed)&title=2011+LG+Cinema+3D+Global+StarCraft+II+League+May&key=(removed)

So we're nearly there :D

Now, first make sure you have "curl" and vlc installed ("sudo apt-get install curl vlc" on debian based systems), now type:
curl -A "KPeerClient" "http://38.108.112.171:8902/view.cgi?hid=1&cid=(removed)&nid=(removed)&uno=(removed)&uip=(removed)&title=2011+LG+Cinema+3D+Global+StarCraft+II+League+May&key=(removed)" | vlc -

This will open up vlc and you will be able to watch the live stream! If you want to save the stream, type:
curl -A -o gomout "KPeerClient" "http://38.108.112.171:8902/view.cgi?hid=1&cid=(removed)&nid=(removed)&uno=(removed)&uip=(removed)&title=2011+LG+Cinema+3D+Global+StarCraft+II+League+May&key=(removed)"
The stream will be saved to a file called "gomout" in the directory you are currently in.

ps: I removed a lot of keys and stuff, don't be confused by this. I need to do that because else you would be able to watch my premium stream ;D

It should work similar on mac, just make sure you have curl installed!
Also I found on reddit this link: https://github.com/sjp/GOMstreamer
I didn't try it but it might work as well.

I hope that helped

cheers

MooseMasher

Sweden42 Posts

July 11 2011 12:10 GMT

Thanks for a great post!!

Unfortunately I couldnt seem to get it working..

Are you still being able to use this trick? I was thinking that there was some change gomtv made to make us more dependant of their software.

Seems like there's not too many linux users on tl, but I'll post any progress I make on this thing so I can pretend to be useful

Edit: It was just a media player problem! Ubuntus version of vlc doesnt supply all the codecs (doh)

mplayer [the url] did the trick just fine, or just get the codecs for vlc if u prefer

Again, great job figuring this out, saved my holidays haha :D

Growiel

Korea (South)363 Posts

December 12 2011 09:26 GMT

I just want to bump this because, as of today (December 12 2011), it's the only trick that worked to view the Blizzard Cup (in HD) in my VLC on Linux.

So for everybody using the Chrome extension who isn't working anymore, do this, it works, i guarantee it. I did every step on Chrome (just in case).

Thrax

Canada1755 Posts

December 17 2011 06:55 GMT

Thanks for this! I bought the 99$ GOM package but I don't want to put their software on my machine.
I'll try the GOMstreamer scripts.

zanga

659 Posts

January 02 2012 10:32 GMT

EFFING LOVELY!

Just did this - works! (ubuntu, latest firefox)

Sbuiko

Switzerland56 Posts

January 10 2012 15:16 GMT

I have a similar approach, but it varies in some small details, so I'm posting it here for completeness sake:

I'm using my own method for viewing the GOM stuff on Mac, an approach that is applicable for any OS that has a text editor, terminal and copy paste (I have automated most of these steps for convenience in my favourite scripting language tho):

1. Log in to your account on the GOM website (www.gomtv.net)

1a. Go to the streaming page (Where the big yellow "watch" buttons are), and look at the source

1b. search for " var GOXurl" in the source (not "//var GOXurl" that's a comment, but our line should be the next after that), and copy paste it.

2a. Extract the URL part, and then replace " + playType + " with your actual streaming type:
free stream = SQTest
Pay Stream Low Quality = LQ
Pay Stream High Quality = HQ

2b. Make sure your url looks somewhat like this (example for free stream given, numbers anonymised):
http://www.gomtv.net/gox/ggox.gom?leagueid=12345&strLevel=SQTest&target=live&mb_no=123456789abcdef&conid=12345

2c. Copy that url into a browser, and query it. If it doesn't work, there might be no life games, or you need to try a non-visual query method like curl in terminal. You should get a xml file or xml text string back.

3a. Extract the url from the XML, it's the part after "LiveAddr=", but before the first occurence of "&" after that (Ignore the parts before it that go gomp2p

.

3b. URLdecode the string (note: some browsers do this automatically for you, so you'll need to do this in the terminal or use other scripting.) There's websites that can do it for your too, like this one: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/

3c. Example, before Decoding:
http%3a//38.108.112.122%3A8800%2Fview.cgi%3Fhid%3D1%26cid%3D1234%26nid%3D123%26uno%3D12345678%26uip%3D255.255.255.255%26title%3D%26key%3D123456789abcdef%26auth%3D1234

3d. After Decoding:
http://38.108.112.122:8800/view.cgi?hid=1&cid=12345&nid=123&uno=12345678&uip=255.255.255.255&title=&key=123456789abcdef&auth=1234&Format=OGM&SecSize=12345

4a. Now you need to load that url. Again I suggest curl or a similar method, because your browser might load it as text file into the view, which is of no use. Alternatively, you can try to load the resulting URL directly in VLC via the "Open Network..." menu item from the File menu (I had mixed results with directly using VLC).

4b. If you saved a file, you can simply tell VLC to open it up. Note that the file is growing in size while you're watching it, so adjust your scrubbing and fast forward/pausing behaviour accordingly.

5. Make sure to delete the file at the end, and do not use it any further, to at least retain a tiny shred of legality.

Rannasha

Netherlands2398 Posts

January 10 2012 15:27 GMT

On April 18 2011 19:59 machete wrote:

Also I found on reddit this link: https://github.com/sjp/GOMstreamer
I didn't try it but it might work as well.

I've been using this script for 2 days now and it works great in Ubuntu with VLC (Mac and Windows supported too, apparently). Just provide GOM email/pw start it up and it pops up a VLC window with the stream. It's also much simpler than any of the other methods I've used before. Fingers crossed that GOM doesn't break this workaround like it did most others.

Hordalos

Denmark1 Post

March 12 2012 11:00 GMT

I tried to use your solution, but when i play the file i get no picture, only sound. Any idea for a solution on this. Im trying this on a windows machine throught curl in cygwin and then playing in vlc.