GOM Media Player – best free media player

GOM Media player is a free multimedia player published by Gretech. It has a very simple graphical user interface (GUI) which makes it easier to work with. It has lots of audio and video codecs which are built-in. It supports multiple file formats such as AVI, Mpeg, DivX, Xvid, WMV, DAT, ASF etc.

Partially downloaded files and locked files can also be played using this player. Another feature that it incorporates is the drag-and-drop support. Its enhanced filter rendering makes it stand out amongst all other players. Further it has skins which can be edited. Other features include key remapping and subtitling, HTTP streaming, Unicode support and real-time index rebuilding.

GOM Media Player screenshot

The support it renders to a wide range of file formats makes it probably the best free media player. It has customizable settings on the control panel which are extremely impressive and interesting. A video’s brightness, hue and saturation can be adjusted here. One can use a pop-out playlist to save and organize various media files. But it has just two sort modes which is the area where it lags. It does not have a preview window and changes may occur during video playback, therefore you can change the settings after you have started playing the file or have the settings adjusted in trial session before you actually watch the video.

Another very exciting feature of this freeware player is the screen-capture feature which includes hot keys, zooming and panning, customizable themes, and lots of preset and adjustable audio controls. Though GOM Media player may have weaknesses where help documentation and Save settings are concerned, overall it is a very good player which will cater to almost all your video-watching needs.

Pros & Cons
This freeware supports many file formats (codecs), but if you find a video that can’t be played by default, GOM Media Player will find you one and direct you to the download location
The screen capture utility will let you take screenshots right from GOM player
No cons so far; I tried to play a DVD, but the program found a codec in no time.

What’s new in version 2.1.16 of GOM Media Player version?

• The occasional Deadlock problem that happened when you shut down the play has been modified
• The Vorbis audio decoder has a performance improvement

The download is less than 5 MB. Available for all versions of Windows.

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