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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Me/2000/XP/Vista
- Date added: June 21, 2007
- Total Downloads: 16,760,155
- Downloads last week: 166,912
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1290 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 2.1.6.3499 works without the skin information file, properly plays VoxWare audio, and fixes a few more bugs.
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Version 2.1.6.3499 works without the skin information file, properly plays VoxWare audio, and fixes a few more bugs.
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User reviews of GOM Media Player 2.1.6.3499
- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 1290 votes
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11 out of 11 people found this review helpful
Version: GOM Media Player 2.1.6.3499
Pros: It plays files well. The ability to edit the hue, saturation and other elements of the VIDEO is impressive. Making a playlist is easy, and taking multiple caps of the videos is easy as well. Overall, it's not a bad player.
Cons: I already have VLC and JetAudio. GOM doesn't bring enough originality to make me want to switch, nor is it that far ahead of those two. It's just there. If you don't have VLC or JetAudio, the GOM is a good choice for a media player.
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3 out of 10 people found this review helpful
Version: GOM Media Player 2.1.6.3499
Pros: runs all media file types, just need an internet connection to update the program codeces, this program is great
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10 out of 10 people found this review helpful
Version: GOM Media Player 2.1.6.3499
"A good product, but somewhat of a resource hog."
Pros: It'll play what other players won't.
Cons: Something of a resource hog. Needs a somewhat better "Help" file.
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Version: GOM Media Player 2.1.6.3499
Pros: Very simple yet so many options and fine settings you may tweak. All around great, and plays so many formats.
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6 out of 13 people found this review helpful
Version: GOM Media Player 2.1.6.3499
"This program is a masterpiece!!"
Pros: Plays everything! Never crashes, very stable software. Awesome features like: A to B repeat option. It's absolutly awesome program. what is there not to like?
For the people that are looking for the right codecs go to this site and download CCCP its a the most advanved codecs ever and it's free: cccp-project(dot)net And this program has everything you can possibly imagine. A MUST DOWNLOAD!!!
Cons: May hang the computer if you use it too fast. Other then that, it's and awesome piece of software to have!
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