Recently GomTV decided to block any non-GomPlayer applications from accessing their streams. Effectively this means that paying customers using Linux or OS X are now stuck with only the VODs. Hence I can’t feel too bad for posting this workaround.
- Go to GomTV.net, log in and go to the ‘Go Live’ page.
- Copy/paste the Javascript for either the SQ or HQ stream into the location bar in your browser while you’re at the ‘Go Live’ page and hit Enter. (Thanks to the /r/starcraft redditors ‘mnjmn’ and ‘Gudeldar’ who came up with those Javascript snippets!)
This will give you a personalized URL to the stream. Copy that. - Now open a terminal and execute the following command:
curl -A 'GomPlayer 2, 1, 28, 5039 (ENG)' '<stream URL>' | vlc -
Of course, replace <stream URL> with the URL you copied in 2 (but keep the quotes!).
Voilà!
You can of course replace VLC with any player that supports reading a stream from stdin, and if your system doesn’t have curl installed, you can use:
wget -U 'GomPlayer 2, 1, 28, 5039 (ENG)' -O - '<stream URL>' | vlc -
Note re OS X: As redditor ‘thedz’ pointed out, another way of doing it would be to simply use curl or wget to save the stream to a file and then open that file with your favorite video player. That goes a little something like this:
curl -A 'GomPlayer 2, 1, 28, 5039 (ENG)' '<stream URL>' -o ~/gsl.ogm
That saves the stream to ~/gsl.ogm (~ is a short way of writing /home/username (Linux) and /Users/username (OS X)), which you can open in any video player supporting OGM.
