- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: November 04, 2009
- Total Downloads: 18,792,892
- Downloads last week: 190,840
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1269 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: 4.1 stars out of 1269 votes
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Version: GOM Media Player 2.1.21.4846
Pros: Easy to install, easy to play and it plays MP4 beautifully.
Cons: None I can see.
Summary: The best MP4 player in the market, great design and an easy fluid use.
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Version: GOM Media Player 2.1.21.4846
Pros: Plays almost everything and has completely replaced Win Media for me...
Cons: None that I can find...
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Version: GOM Media Player 2.1.21.4846
"best yet easy to setup and work with"
Pros: easy to play any format and easy to play, easly intergrates into open with formats
Cons: have no dislikes
Summary: love this product. have been using it for the last year easier then windows media player
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Version: GOM Media Player 2.1.21.4846
Pros: This player is more reliable than any other I have used. You can set it to your specifications. Everyone that I have gotten to use it loves it also.
Cons: I really can't think of any.
Summary: Great reliable player!
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Version: GOM Media Player 2.1.21.4846
Pros: It plays everything I have used it for. I like it very much!
Cons: There are some media file types I haven't tried, but the ones I have tried it really works great.
Summary: This is a great media player to have on the side to play files that Windows Media Player doesn't play. I use them both almost daily.
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