- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: June 25, 2006
- Total Downloads: 11,521,747
- Downloads last week: 181,487
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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 freeware media player that playbacks most of the popular video formats. GOM Player supports most of the codecs (AVI, DAT, MPEG, DivX, WMV, ASF, and plus more) by its own in-built codec system that you won't have to look for appropriate codecs every time when you can't play a certain video format. GOM is also able to play incomplete or damaged AVI file by skipping the damaged frames. And it can also playback Locked Media Files while downloading or sharing (with real-time index rebuilding under certain condition: AVI downloading in consecutive order). GOM also supports HTTP Streaming ASF/OGG/MP3/AAC/MPEG PS/MPEG TS: Only work with internal splitters). GOM also support its own skins, Subtitle, Overlay Mixer features AVI key frame based RW/FF optimized buffer for streaming automatic ASF source filter. GOM also includes Keys Remapping, Superspeed/High Mode, Enhanced Filter Rendering, and full-Unicode.
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User reviews of GOM Media Player 2.0.6
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 1251 votes
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2 out of 10 people found this review helpful
Version: GOM Media Player 2.0.6
"Video didnt work, just sound"
Pros: Free, Nice looking
Cons: Threw 6 DVD's at it and it only played the sound( No Picture).Downloaded 3-45pm,uninstalled 4-05pm.Shame as I liked the look of it.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: GOM Media Player 2.0.6
"Oh Ya, this is the one to download!"
Pros: I've been searching for a solid player for playing various file formats. THIS IS IT. It's pretty light, simple but powerful (many options), and most of all it's free. I have tried over 5 media players and this is the best overall.
Cons: It's great for video but not for music.
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5 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: GOM Media Player 2.0.6
Pros: It supports all video files so I don't need to install any other codecs. I like it.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: GOM Media Player 2.0.6
"Top performance, nice graphics, useful features"
Pros: It seems that finally there is a media player for Windows that rivals the power and features of the all known Mplayer. With a clean interface, its own codecs system, included subtitles system, skinning support and many other features, Gom Player is certainly at the top of the Media Players list. It has a lot of options, satisfying anybody from your average user to the pros.
Cons: Well, there has to be a thing or two missing. Unfortunately, Gom Player misses visualisations when playing audio data. Also, it doesn't offer any plugin support.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: GOM Media Player 2.0.6
"the most convenient media player i've ever used"
Pros: 1.able to play a lot of different media files (don't have to install other codecs)
2. easy&simple UI
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