- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: November 04, 2009
- Total Downloads: 18,628,960
- Downloads last week: 180,548
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1264 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
As various media players jockey for position to become your default setting for music and video streams, GOM Media Player's support for a wide range of file formats has helped it stand out as a firm favorite.
Supported formats include DAT, MPEG, DivX, XviD, WMV, ASF, AVI, and MOV, as are common codecs like FLV1, AC3, OGG, MP4, and H263. A pop-out playlist can save and organize your various media files, though the limited sort modes--two--hardly makes it a champ.
More impressive are the customizable settings on the control panel. Here you can adjust a video's image brightness, hue, and saturation. There's no preview window, and changes occur as the video runs, so unless you care for a rousing session of trial and error, be sure to tweak the settings after clicking "play." There's also a built-in screen-capture feature that includes zooming and panning, customizable themes, hot keys, and a host of preset and adjustable audio controls.
GOM is weakest when you're looking for help documentation and trying to tweak Save settings, but overall it's a very strong player worth at least a supporting role in your video-watching habits, if not the lead.
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Publisher's description
From Gretech :GOM Player is a free multimedia player with popular video and audio codecs built-in. GOM Player supports file formats such as AVI, DAT, MPEG, DivX, XviD, WMV, ASF. Users don't have to install codecs separately. GOM Player is capable of playing incomplete or damaged AVI files by skipping the damaged frames. It can also play locked or partially downloaded files. Its other features include drag-and-drop support, HTTP streaming, editable skins, subtitling, overlay mixer, key remapping, enhanced filter rendering, real-time index rebuilding for AVI files and unicode support among others.
What's new in this version:
Version 2.1.21.4846 fixes lots of bugs and errors in a specific situation and adds some functions and security patches.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 1264 votes
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Version: GOM Media Player 2.1.21.4846
"Best media player on the market"
Pros: Very little that it won't open and play.
Cons: Has problems playing .mkv files
Summary: I've been using Gom Player for several years and have found very few media file types that it won't play, one of them being .mkv files. With .mkv's it is slow and jerky and the audio is out of sync with the video. I highly recommend GOM for all medi... read more >>
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Version: GOM Media Player 2.1.21.4846
Pros: Easily customize, light-weighted, no consume much memory, user friendly. It's one of my favourite.
Cons: The video output is kind of bright, causing reduce in colour depth compare to Media Player Classic - Home Cinema and Windows Media Player. Besides, the subtitle will sometime shows <i>subtitle text<i>, which should be italic for the subtitle text.
Summary: It's a great video player for users that not demanding quality. However, if you like quality, you can choose for Media Player Classic - Home Cinema.
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Version: GOM Media Player 2.1.21.4846
Pros: I didn't have any problems with this player. I have much video in many formats and all my files this cool players does perfectly.
Cons: Several problems with FullHD video, occure very rare
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Version: GOM Media Player 2.1.21.4846
Pros: good solid player works great and easy to use.
Cons: I have not found any as of this time.
Summary: Gom has a sharp picture, great sound ,works great and is easy to load and
a novice can use it with ease plus its free. I recomend it to all ! -
Version: GOM Media Player 2.1.21.4846
"I have not tried this player as yet"
Pros: I will let you know next week as I have not tried it out yet.
Cons: None as yet I have not tried it out
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