Reviewed by: CNET Staff on November 06, 2008
As various media players jockey for position to become your default setting for music and video streams, GOM Media Players 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 videos image brightness, hue, and saturation. Theres 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." Theres 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 youre looking for help documentation and trying to tweak Save settings, but overall its a very strong player worth at least a supporting role in your video-watching habits, if not the lead.
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Publishers 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 dont 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.
Whats new in this version:
Added the MPEG2 source filter with improved search quality and playback error.
Fixed an browsing error in some TS files.
Fixed a synchronizing error with video and audio in some TS files.
Added MPEG source filter options to the preference.
Fixed a calculation error of the average frame in the Gretech ASF Source filter.
Fixed a sound issue of the Gretech Audio filter.
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