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5 stars
Version: GOM Media Player 2.1.3.3413
"Better than VLC? Yeah."
Pros: -I like movies, and this program plays them with aplomb. It looks fairly nice and clean, doesn't use up too much processor space when playing movies (I got about a third of my junky computer on the video, which is great for movie playback, and it should be lower for most users).
-It supports most if not all) of the files types I will ever need, and without downloading a single codec. A few minutes in with this baby and VLC was off my computer in and instant.
-It's only about 4 megs of a download, which is a little smaller than VLC's 8 mb or any music/media players that go well into the 30's. The only one I'd say is a rival to this program is Winamp, which can play movies, have the whole media player thing all at 6 mb.
Cons: -There are so many all-in-one video players out there right now, and none of them really do a better job. I'm going for this one because it's smaller and has a nice long list of files I KNOW I will use...but will I?
-It's only real use is movies, because it has no organization method for music files.
-The "play .avi files even if not finished" thing, while awesome and spectacular in concept, did not work for any of the files I attempted with the program. A three-quarters-downloaded movie would just stop within the first second and refuse to budge.
-There are a FEW skins, and none of them are worth downloading (all a bunch of iTunes or WMP copycats), so what you see in the screenshot is what you get for the most part.
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