Do you really need another media player software?

20 Aug 06 21:44 by geno888 in category Uncategorized To news archive

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players are not the only way to watch a movie. You can watch a movie also on your computer, but it’s necessary to use a media player able to support all your video formats.

There are already many media players available, some with plenty of features, but usually not available for free. But do you really need these costly features? And is it really possible to obtain certain features only by payment?

Now it’s available, a new, and FREE tool named GOM Player:

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>GOM is the kind of player all users pray to the Gods of software for. It supports all kinds of features for highly advanced users who desire to watch video clips at the best quality. It can also play one of your broken AVI files that other media players seldom play.

GOM Player supports most of the codecs (AVI, DAT, MPEG, DivX, and more) by its own embedded codec system. The best part is, it doesn’t make you scourge through a zillion web pages just to get that one codec; GOM will automatically lead you to an open-source codec web-site. It also has a registered patent for playing broken AVI format or AVI video files that are being downloaded.

What makes GOM Player interesting is that it allows the user to also play broken AVI movies, a feature that is missing in most media players (even not-free ones). During tests, GOM also showed to be less resource hungry than other media players, and this is an advantage for people that have not a recent machine.

Are you interested? Read the review of GOM here. GOM Player can be downloaded for free here .

Source: Techtree.com

22 Comments

Wischmop: Posts: 394; Posted on: 20 Aug 06 22:20

Sounds nice Anyone have experience with this one?

Ranmacanada: Posts: 290; Posted on: 20 Aug 06 23:00

uh hello VLC has been doing this for how many years? Thanks but we don't need another copy cat program :P

rendez2k: Posts: 453; Posted on: 20 Aug 06 23:00

Appears to be excellent based on my quick tests - millions of options and functions and the price is perfect :g

headquarter84: Posts: 2010; Posted on: 20 Aug 06 23:03

i will :B :B seems perfect for my EMule downloads :X

Kosh: Posts: 218; Posted on: 21 Aug 06 03:05

Very Nice

cepth: Posts: 10; Posted on: 21 Aug 06 03:49

VLC works perfectly, no need for another program.

ShawNee1: Posts: 2; Posted on: 21 Aug 06 08:18

Well for me it works great, replaced VLC with GOM

Saruman: Posts: 476; Posted on: 21 Aug 06 13:32

There's no information on either the main site or in the supposed "review article" that really tells a potential user what formats this software is compatible with. The website is absolutely no help, there's only the hype front page and a link to D/L the software. No other information available on the site. If I ran across their website due to a search for media players and seen that they had no further info. other than hype and a download link, I 'd have assumed it was a virus/trojan/whatever and passed on it. Not to say that the software is bad, only that the lack of information on the homepage and lack of a real review would not constitute me trying out another program just because it's "new".

r_saotome: Posts: 465; Posted on: 21 Aug 06 15:07

sticking with MPC, until the programmer or webmaster decides to add a feature list, screenshots & some other helpful info. thou I must admit, the hype sounds nice....HYPE.

warforpeace: Posts: 170; Posted on: 21 Aug 06 15:32

What's wrong with MPlayer? Plays all kinds of weird formats. Can play broken video files. Subtitle support is still a little bit crappy but the rest works flawlessly. I need not yet another video player.

elfdood: Posts: 200; Posted on: 21 Aug 06 16:24

I am liking this also, for me it looks better than VLC on my Big screen. Played everything I have, Nice find

FidelC: Posts: 987; Posted on: 21 Aug 06 17:16

Everything? What about Real and Quicktime?

jsteele: Posts: 58; Posted on: 21 Aug 06 18:19

I reckon this is EVEN better than VLC! My new no1 player! Try it...

GezusK: Posts: 272; Posted on: 22 Aug 06 02:22

I can play my Quicktime movie trailers with VLC, haven't tried this one.

GezusK: Posts: 272; Posted on: 22 Aug 06 02:32

Wow, this player sucks. Going fullscreen resulted in choppy playback. I've never had a player do that. And its not as if it even looked better. Is there some trick to getting it to run smoothly? I've got a P4 3.3Gzh and 1GB RAM, x850 video card. Oh, to follow up, it'll play smooth fullscreen when set to normal in the wizard, but not at high quality, even with high priority. And resource usage is double what VLC uses, in both cpu and memory.
[edited by GezusK on 22.08.2006 02:40]

elfdood: Posts: 200; Posted on: 22 Aug 06 04:24

Quote:

Everything? What about Real and Quicktime?

yep, it plays mov and rm

GezusK: Posts: 272; Posted on: 22 Aug 06 04:31

Not exactly true. I noticed in the review, that RM was listed to be associated with the player. But on my system, since I didn't have any RM player already installed, it didn't even have those choices listed. I'm guessing it still needs more installed before it'll play RM.

warforpeace: Posts: 170; Posted on: 24 Aug 06 13:55

Get MPlayer. Runs all flawlessly. Even runs heavily corrupted video files, incomplete downloads, it would even play my old man's p0rn collection if it had a VHS loader

guest: Posts: 15288; Posted on: 24 Dec 07 08:06

This is the best player if you have a 1024X768 tv and want 16:9 format media files to automatically fit in your tv screen using s-video out on your video card. Media player 11 and divx player, alshow player, etc, I've tried them all and none of those players can do what the gom player can do. Only problem with the gom player is the choppiness in full screen mode that happens often. I think it's a bug but once that's fixed this will be the only media player that matters.

guest: Posts: 15288; Posted on: 18 Feb 08 00:12

how to have a media player

guest: Posts: 15288; Posted on: 25 Jul 08 09:29

C'mon guys, lets face it, GOM player is pretty best player, VLC is history..
i mean, who wants to look that oldfashioned skin, and so few functions...
I have using GOM for almost a year, and i'm fully satisfied with it. opens (almost) everithing! It's my universal player.
BUT, have anyone tryed, or at least give a chance, to NERO's 8 - ShowTime4. I was always suspicious about nero's products other than CD/DVD burning ones. This one built in Nero 8 work flawlesly... I was amased with the quality of the picture, and also opens great number of formats.. The important is that there is stable, no more picture jams, or whatever you call that... And subtitles are default green

refreshing...

gritty412: Posts: 3; Posted on: 11 Sep 08 01:39

Anyone have any expeience with "The KMPlayer" not to be confused with "KMplayer" ? Description:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_KMPlayer

also I found this web page to be particularly informative:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_media_players

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