HOWTO get rid of the music video in GH:TV

I was thinking about this earlier, but then I saw also Jason Paradise talking about this on his GH:L stream, so I finally decided to make some experiments...

I was doing this, because my laptop is too low end to handle any streaming software to include overlay, etc. I can only stream unedited stream from my AverMedia LGP Lite.

Video example: https://youtu.be/LvMRxXg7I6o?t=20

First of all, here is what worked for me:

In my router (running Tomato firmware) in the "Access Restriction" section I created a new restriction, applied only to my Xbox's IP (192.168.1.86), scheduled for every day, which blocks HTTP requests with ".webm" in URL.

But keep in mind this blocks EVERY request with ".webm" in it, so it might block some video in some other game / application in your Xbox.

If your router supports wildcard blocking, the URL looks like this: http://cdn-ghtv.guitarhero.com/assets/tracks/1856/video/v1/r38055/webm/720_0036.webm?eclipseps3=148262...

So you could build your regexp to block something like: ^{http://cdn-ghtv.guitarhero.com/assets/tracks/(.*)/video/v1/(.*)/webm/(.*).webm,} I'm not "regexp kinda guy", so you're on your own here.

screen: http://i.imgur.com/a8FPYoF.png

What are the other possibilities? There is few I can think of...

Lower the bandwidth from GH:TV server to your Xbox, so the game can't download the video stream. I tried this with my Xbox setup to use max. 512 / 512 kbps, but the music video occasionally flashes for a few seconds and the leaderboard showed only 2 players, instead of 10.

I wasn't able to apply traffic shaping to/from only specific IP (GHTV server), so I was also slowing down whole Xbox (Live, etc.).

Another one...

Apply QoS. Almost same as above, but by applying QoS on GH:TV IP (and/or protocol).

I didn't tried this, because I think it is a little bit overkill, if you don't have QoS already set up.

And another one...

Block / slowdown GVSP protocol traffic coming (from IP 185.34.107.217 in my case) to your Xbox. I wasn't able to try this, my router does not support this particular protocol in settings.

Sorry this isn't a step by step guide. Every persons' router is different, also the IP addresses of GH:TV might be different. Also this is applicable to other consoles as well!

Submitted by OndrejBakan | #Specialdealer Special Offer Online Shopping Store 2016