Yamaha Home Theater
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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: March 01, 2009
- Total Downloads: 14,197,927
- Downloads last week: 173,317
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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.
Version 2.1.16.4631 fixes 'Deadlock problem' which occasionally happened when you shut down the player and improves Vorbis audio decoder performance.
What's new in this version:
Version 2.1.16.4631 fixes 'Deadlock problem' which occasionally happened when you shut down the player and improves Vorbis audio decoder performance.
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User reviews of GOM Media Player 2.1.16.4631
- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 1269 votes
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Version: GOM Media Player 2.1.16.4631
Pros: I have a new Dell XPS 430 Desktop power House desktop PC & Like all new PC's theres a few bugs to work out. This player solved a big one. Installed on a Vista x64 system without a glitch & now ll my long to collect movies & videos in AVI format play.
Cons: None so far & my major issue in video playbacks fixed. thanks for this nice freebie is all I gotta say.
Summary: It took me all of 10 minutes to figure out how to skin it & use it. I was pleasantly surprised that it works so good on a Vista x64 system but the bottom line is that it does. Enough said about this savior of 5 years worth of music videos & ... read more >>
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: GOM Media Player 2.1.16.4631
Pros: Music and video quality playback is good much better than Windows media player and even iTunes.
Cons: Some mp3s won't play, kept asking for a codec but can't find one. Audio and video of DVD movies are out of sync. GUI could be improved.
Summary: This would have been a good media player had it not been for the setbacks I encountered for the past 7 days I've been using it. Sound and video quality is good. I wonder why it can't find a codec for some mp3 songs I have. I can play them on WinMedi... read more >>
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: GOM Media Player 2.1.16.4631
"Excellent app for fun & reuse your old Win9X PC"
Pros: This apps worls wonders on my old IBM Thinkpad 600Mz running Windows ME. It runs almost as well as WMP on Vista. After deciding to reuse my old Thinkpad as a multimedia PC I had to search hard to apps that were compatible but thanks to GOM it works.
Cons: Nothing - It is so well done I am in awe. Compliments to the develops....
Summary: For the freeware version, it has as many features as you would expect from apps that you have to pay for the extra bits. I was totally blown away by the number of video playback settings it has. I have yet to fully explore all it can do. And this is... read more >>
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: GOM Media Player 2.1.16.4631
"Easy, simple, lightweight, all formats support."
Pros: Support most formats than other players. Very stable, fast and easy to use. Lots of functions.
Cons: Not found yet.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: GOM Media Player 2.1.16.4631
"wont play dvd's. tells me dvd playback is not enabled"
Pros: none were discovered
Cons: it does not play dvds. searched for the error on the vendors website. no luck. i tried to post a help request. denied. you must login but not allowed to create account. worthless - it simply started intervideo for me - wow what a timesaver, not
Summary: it doesnt do what i wanted.
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