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Yet another Mac/Linux GOMTV solution (Firefox)

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Aim Here
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Scotland672 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-15 10:09:45
January 04 2011 11:32 GMT
#1
Hi

In order to more easily watch the GSL, I've written for myself a Firefox addon that allows me to just click on the 'SQ Live' (or 'HQ Live') link on the gomtv.net site, and then tries to play the appropriate URL in whatever app I choose (such as VLC), once I've told it which app, using the browser application helper.

Judging by the forums here, I think it might be useful to some other people out there, so I uploaded it to some grotty filesharing site here so that others might be able to download it. (If there's a better place where I can upload this, let me know).

Be warned, that so far it's been tested on a total of three computers so far, so it might very well not work for you. If you're running this, you're a tester!

Reasons why this might be good for you
* It's a lot more convenient than having to scrape through the html to dig up two URLs and manually feeding one of those into vlc, as is the most common method
* It shouldn't have to change so much. The methods for html-scraping the URLs has to change with every single website redesign or GSL season. If I get this addon written properly, they have to rejigger GOMplayer to make this fail.
* The files are nice, friendly text-only, readable javascript

Reasons why this might suck for you
* You're not using a version of firefox that it runs on (it ought to work with 3.5 and 3.6 at least)
* I've barely written a line of javascript before now. There could be bugs and/or security holes in there
* You don't trust me, because you're wise. I'm a random stranger on the internet offering free software to plug into your browser, after all.
* The browser app helper instance I send it to seems to be slightly less useful than the ones I see other links use.

To use this, download the .xpi file above, and open the file up with Firefox, and install it. Then go to the gom site, click on the link you want to view, and a window should pop up asking which app to use. Navigate to vlc (/usr/bin/vlc, perhaps) or your app of choice, and it should fire up that app and attempt to play the link. If you're a scaredy cat, .xpi files are just pkzip '.zip' files, and the files in there are all human-readable, so you can check out that I'm not trojanning your computer with malware.

If you find this works/doesn't work/sucks/made your life complete, then feel free to say so - operating system and firefox version would be helpful when working out what's gone wrong, if anything.

Cheers


EDIT:

Latest version is 0.1.5 - no actual code changes, just updated version strings so it will at least attempt to install on firefox 7 and below.

TheBB has very kindly offered to host the file at his website at http://www.lrtw.org/~eivind/fakegom/

I've also put the latest version up at http://www.mediafire.com/?bb9d7k4zsyb4b9m (in case TheBB doesn't get it up in time, which is unlikely - he's very prompt!)

tntn
Profile Joined December 2010
80 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-04 12:06:56
January 04 2011 12:03 GMT
#2
downloaded and installed firefox just for this and it works very well so far!

thank youuuu
aXyde
Profile Joined July 2010
Germany8 Posts
January 04 2011 12:31 GMT
#3
Working flawlessly. This is what i was looking for for a long time.

Thanks!
Train Hard Go Pro!
Snoogle
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada71 Posts
January 04 2011 12:56 GMT
#4
Thanks for releasing this for the community! I tried it with firefox 3.6 and it worked flawlessly!
My personal browser of choice is chrome and it'd be great if you'd be able to throw something together for that!
~the munch~
TheGiftedApe
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1243 Posts
January 04 2011 13:46 GMT
#5
thank you will try tomorrow.
xO-Gaming.com || [xO]TheGiftedApe.364 || xO-Gaming Manager.
TheBB
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Switzerland5133 Posts
January 04 2011 18:23 GMT
#6
Unassigned file limit of 10 downloads reached.

If you send it to me I can host it. PM for e-mail...
http://aligulac.com || Barcraft Switzerland! || Zerg best race. || Stats-poster extraordinaire.
TheGiftedApe
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1243 Posts
January 05 2011 04:05 GMT
#7
AHHHHHH I wanted to try this, as the solutions for last season no longer work for me. If you could upload to megaupload.com or sharebee.com plz plz. Or if someone has a workaround that is working for season4/sponsorship league.
xO-Gaming.com || [xO]TheGiftedApe.364 || xO-Gaming Manager.
Aim Here
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Scotland672 Posts
January 05 2011 10:24 GMT
#8
On January 05 2011 13:05 TheGiftedApe wrote:
AHHHHHH I wanted to try this, as the solutions for last season no longer work for me. If you could upload to megaupload.com or sharebee.com plz plz. Or if someone has a workaround that is working for season4/sponsorship league.


Done - check the newly reedited OP.
zek_
Profile Joined November 2010
Germany18 Posts
January 05 2011 10:33 GMT
#9
First got an error, but after 3 sec it opened up. THANK YOU SO MUCH
Aim Here
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Scotland672 Posts
January 05 2011 10:37 GMT
#10
On January 05 2011 19:33 zek_ wrote:
First got an error, but after 3 sec it opened up. THANK YOU SO MUCH


Could you please tell me what sort of error? From firefox or vlc? Which versions of FF/OS? I need to know this stuff in order to fix it if/when it breaks!
PalleRaa
Profile Joined January 2011
Denmark9 Posts
January 05 2011 10:58 GMT
#11
Works perfectly. It just adds the link to the playlist but does not autoplay, so you have to click the link in the playlist in VLC. No biggie and it works flawless.
Hylite
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany21 Posts
January 05 2011 12:04 GMT
#12
Fantastic! Works perfect for me, too. Thank you for your work!
Hebbedehäh
edahl
Profile Joined February 2008
Norway483 Posts
January 05 2011 12:57 GMT
#13
Thank you a bunch! The gomplayer is the only software so far that's been slow on my new computer. You plugin works seamlessly!
Desti
Profile Joined September 2010
Germany138 Posts
January 06 2011 02:06 GMT
#14
Cool thing, will try it!
EzCheeze
Profile Joined November 2010
United States81 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-06 10:05:56
January 06 2011 10:02 GMT
#15
Didn't work for me unfortunately, I get the same pop-up error that I got before installing the add-on -

'Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (gomcmd) isn't associated with any program.'

Got this using Firefox 3.6.13, OSX vers 10.6.5.
Aim Here
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Scotland672 Posts
January 06 2011 10:05 GMT
#16
On January 06 2011 19:02 EzCheeze wrote:
Didn't work for me unfortunately, I get the same pop-up error that I got before installing the add-on -

'Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (gomcmd) isn't associated with any program.'

Got this using Firefox 3.6.13, FakeGOM version 0.1.1


Odd. Is it installed properly? It should appear in the tools/addons/extensions list. Also did you remember to restart firefox afterwards?
EzCheeze
Profile Joined November 2010
United States81 Posts
January 06 2011 10:06 GMT
#17
It appears to be, it shows up in my addons menu. I did restart firefox, just tried uninstalling / reinstalling. I'll do so again and post results in a sec
Aim Here
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Scotland672 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-06 11:02:01
January 06 2011 10:39 GMT
#18
EzCheeze,

If you still can't make it go, could you fire up the Javascript Error Console (Tools/Error Console) and PM me a paste of the messages relating to FakeGOM.js or similar (when you first fire up Firefox). Also try navigating to the GOM Live page, clear the console, click the 'gomcmd:' link, then paste any Javascript messages that pop up then too.

Thanks.
Juzley
Profile Joined October 2010
United Kingdom13 Posts
January 06 2011 11:04 GMT
#19
On January 06 2011 19:02 EzCheeze wrote:
Didn't work for me unfortunately, I get the same pop-up error that I got before installing the add-on -

'Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (gomcmd) isn't associated with any program.'

Got this using Firefox 3.6.13, OSX vers 10.6.5.


Having the same issue on FF 3.6.12, I've also tried uninstalling and reinstalling and have restarted FF several times.
Juzley
Profile Joined October 2010
United Kingdom13 Posts
January 06 2011 11:05 GMT
#20
From the error console:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE) [nsIJSCID.getService]" nsresult: "0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: file:///Users/juz/Library/Application%20Support/Firefox/Profiles/7apbfat0.default/extensions/fakegom@make.gsl.go/components/FakeGOM.js :: <TOP_LEVEL> :: line 56" data: no]

Failed to load XPCOM component: /Users/juz/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/7apbfat0.default/extensions/fakegom@make.gsl.go/components/FakeGOM.js
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