- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
- Date added: November 04, 2009
- Total Downloads: 21,607,301
- Downloads last week: 190,471
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1339 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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- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 1339 votes
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Version: GOM Media Player 2.1.21.4846
Pros: no need for codec
light
free
virus freeCons: none for me
Summary: i use it every day
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Version: GOM Media Player 2.1.21.4846
Pros: Nice looking design and the dedicated playlist is definitely a plus point.
Cons: No audio enhancement and no 3rd-party plugin support.
Summary: GOMPLAYER is indeed a nice piece of a dedicated video player. It works (almost) without a glitch and it is easy to configure as well. It is rare to see a video player has a dedicated playlist, not even VLC or MPC has it. However it would be nice if ... read more >>
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Version: GOM Media Player 2.1.21.4846
Pros: Seems to work with just about all files although if you get a strange codec and it asks to find it then it never does. Doesn't happen very often though. When in use it is very stable and reliable far more so than VLC which causes loads of crashes.
Cons: It can never ever find a missing codec and the other gripe is that it always starts in a decent sized window only to promptly reduce to a tiny one which then has to be enlarged to be able to use it.
Summary: A great addition to your computer that is far more reliable and stable compared to the alternatives.
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Version: GOM Media Player 2.1.21.4846
Pros: Easy to install, settings are clear to understand, supported file formats made known.
Playback is normally good.Cons: No negative feedback so far.
Summary: Confoguration of the product following installation was clear, recommended settings followed and results from that were OK. This, within its supported file formats, is as good as alternative media players.
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Version: GOM Media Player 2.1.21.4846
Pros: support for my flv fle. beautiful Skin.
Cons: Not found yet.
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