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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: November 04, 2009
- Total Downloads: 18,315,309
- Downloads last week: 179,094
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1251 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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Version: GOM Media Player 2.1.21.4846
"For a free media player this is the best."
Pros: Easy interface just install and forget... plays most videos.
Cons: Codecs should be installed separately.
Summary: Good job and thanks a lot it's free.
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Version: GOM Media Player 2.1.21.4846
Pros: Played Almost any format including flv.
Cons: Very few times it crashed.
Summary: Life become easy once you download it.
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Version: GOM Media Player 2.1.21.4846
Pros: Easy to use, stable and gives better playback than others I've tried.
Cons: It always starts with a big version and then reverts to a small.
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