Hi guys, first post on TL. I would like to announce a tool I made to help me (an Ubuntu user) watch the GSL live without having to boot into a Windows VM and use the GOM Player.

I have made GOMstreamer this available on my server:

http://sjp.co.nz/projects/gomstreamer/

Instructions and links to downloads for Windows, Mac and Linux are available on that page.

Note: Originally this was only for Mac and Linux only, but more recently GOMstreamer was ported to C# and is now available on Windows (so long as .NET Framework 2.0 is available).

Tofugrinder

Austria899 Posts

November 26 2010 07:39 GMT

Thank you very much! I was looking for something like that, gonna try it today after work

sluggaslamoo

Australia4494 Posts

November 26 2010 07:40 GMT

sick, thanks man!

Noev

United States1105 Posts

November 26 2010 07:42 GMT

looks really interesting should help a ton, the reason i dont buy the season tricket is because i can't watch the HQ stream if this works i might just have to pay out next season

HazeNZ

New Zealand13 Posts

November 26 2010 07:44 GMT

Noev: You should be able to watch it in HQ (assuming you have a premium account) with a small modification to the gomstreamer.py file, changing hq = False to hq = True. I can't test this though because I don't have a premium account this season.

JohannesH

Finland1364 Posts

November 26 2010 07:53 GMT

Or just watch from livestream

Noev

United States1105 Posts

November 26 2010 07:56 GMT

On November 26 2010 16:44 HazeNZ wrote:
Noev: You should be able to watch it in HQ (assuming you have a premium account) with a small modification to the gomstreamer.py file, changing hq = False to hq = True. I can't test this though because I don't have a premium account this season.

Great to hear, i don't have one for this season either but i will be sure to write that down and when next season rolls around ill give it a shot, thanks again

Thetan

240 Posts

November 26 2010 07:58 GMT

On November 26 2010 16:53 JohannesH wrote:
Or just watch from livestream

Why would you watch an illegal restream when you can support GomTV by watching their ACTUAL stream?

shannn

Netherlands2891 Posts

November 26 2010 08:04 GMT

Now that is something amazing.

Craton

United States17271 Posts

November 26 2010 08:04 GMT

#10

I very much doubt they get anything based on the number of people on the free stream. There aren't any commercials and sponsors just donate a set amount. If anything, more people on the network probably costs them more from added bandwidth overhead.

Thetan

240 Posts

November 26 2010 08:08 GMT

#11

On November 26 2010 17:04 Craton wrote:
I very much doubt they get anything based on the number of people on the free stream. There aren't any commercials and sponsors just donate a set amount. If anything, more people on the network probably costs them more from added bandwidth overhead.

But they get data on the # of people who are watching the games, which they can then show to advertisers/sponsors.

holynorth

United States590 Posts

November 26 2010 08:15 GMT

#12

I'll try this out to see how it compares to running parallels.

rally_point

Canada458 Posts

November 26 2010 08:19 GMT

#13

Wow awesome work, GOM should give you a ton of season tickets or at least a high5

skronch

United States2717 Posts

November 26 2010 08:19 GMT

#14

thanks! gonna give this a shot tonight. it sucks having to reboot just to watch gsl

Kishkumen

United States650 Posts

November 26 2010 08:41 GMT

#15

When you say "run run.sh" what do you mean exactly? I'm pretty noobish with computers; I've only done very basic python programming. run.sh just opens in textedit for me (I'm on a Mac). Sorry for maybe asking a stupid question, and thanks for the program! I've always wanted to watch GOM's stream directly in order to give them the correct viewership numbers.

rabidch

United States20289 Posts

November 26 2010 08:45 GMT

#16

On November 26 2010 17:41 Kishkumen wrote:
When you say "run run.sh" what do you mean exactly? I'm pretty noobish with computers; I've only done very basic python programming. run.sh just opens in textedit for me (I'm on a Mac). Sorry for maybe asking a stupid question, and thanks for the program! I've always wanted to watch GOM's stream directly in order to give them the correct viewership numbers.

its a shell script.
do you know what bat files are in windows?
its basically that, except shells are much more powerful in what they can do.

in this case, you can think of it as an executable.

Rannasha

Netherlands2398 Posts

November 26 2010 08:47 GMT

#17

Open a terminal, navigate to the directory with the files and type:
./run.sh

That's how it works on a Linux machine anyway. But since Macs have a similar OS, it should be the same.

LoveXPn

United States74 Posts

November 26 2010 10:09 GMT

#18

having such a hard time trying to get this to work ;_;

EzCheeze

United States81 Posts

November 26 2010 10:42 GMT

#19

If you can't get this to work, I've been using this Greasemonkey script (http://hawflakes.unoc.net/?p=191 click the 'download vlcgomgreaser.user' link just above the script on the page) link to get the SQ Livestream to work through VLC in OSX.

It fetches the SQ link for you and shows it in red text on the 'go live' page. Copy+paste into the 'Open Network' tab in VLC (Apple+N) and you're set.

Centorian

United States95 Posts

November 26 2010 10:56 GMT

#20

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./gomstreamer.py", line 205, in <module>
main()
File "./gomstreamer.py", line 132, in main
url = parseStreamURL(responseData)
File "./gomstreamer.py", line 191, in parseStreamURL
regexResult = re.search(patternHTTP, regexResult).group(0)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

got this error.