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Do you have a hard time finding a media player that has all of the codecs that you need? GOM Player will solve those problems and many more. It can support formats like AVI, DAT, MPEG, DivX, XviD, WMV, ASF, and the list keeps going!
Are you in the middle of downloading a movie or do you have a broken AVI file? GOM Player can play files that are missing frames and it will just skip them when they are found…making the video as seamless as possible. If that doesn’t sound sweet enough then maybe some of these other features will push you over the edge:
- Editable Skins
- HTTP streaming
- Drag-and-drop support
- Subtitling
- Overlay mixer
- Key remapping
- Enhanced filter rendering
- Rebuilding for AVI files
- Real-time index
I didn’t find out about this player until a few weeks ago when a friend told me about it. Ever since I haven’t been able to go back to using anything else. Sure it is great that it has the huge list of codecs built-in but you’ll love how fast it runs.
Cost: FREE
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Nice program, the 4mb install isnt to big either, nice installer, love the skin selector with the instant preview, nice player.
What does this thing have over VLC player? I think VLC plays everything you mentioned and has all of those features.
Thank you Ryan this is a great program! Much better than Real Player or even Media Player. I did have to download a Codec to play MPEG-2 files, but that was fairly painless but interesting.
Additionally, VLC player can play DVDs. At least, it’s supposed to do that. It doesn’t play all my DVDs. And no, they do not have security attached to them.
Does this support Quick Time and Real files? If so, does it also integrate those codecs with Firefox?
I currently use the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack which uses Media Player Classic to play everything, and also installs Quick Time and Real plug-ins to Firefox without having to install Apple and Real’s bloated players.
On another note, does anyone know of any way to get plug-ins/codecs for Firefox without installing them - are they just files I could stick in my user profile the same way I can with Winamp?
The program doesn’t install any codecs onto the system, so even if it had inbuilt QT and RT codecs (which i doubt for legal reasons) it wouldn’t install the browser versions. And the skins are nicer then vlc, and it remembers more things than vlc does, like last played file, and where you were up-to in the file.
I actually haven’t used VLC Player before so I am not able to compare features. I did look around for comparisons on the two applications and I saw someone say that “GOM plays some files that VLC couldn’t” and someone else that said “GOM is like a lite version of VLC”.
So it sounds like it is a media player that is small and quick but may lack some of the extensive features that VLC has. However, you may also find that one of the players will play a video that the other one can’t. It’s always good to have alternatives.
Meh, if it doesn’t have Real and Quicktime and also doesn’t install browser plug ins I see no reason to use it other than that it looks pretty. K-Lite Mega Codec Pack truly ftw.