Monday, April 27, 2015
GOM Player (Short for Gretech Online Movie Player) is a media player for Windows, developed by the Gretech Corporation of South Korea. Its main features include the ability to play some broken media files and find missing codecs using a codec finder service.
The word gom means "bear" in Korean, and as such GOM Player uses a bear's paw as its symbol.
Supported formats
GOM Player can play following multimedia formats:
- ASF/MP3/AVI/Ogg files on an HTTP Streaming connection
- Via DirectShow: AVI, WMV, ASF, MP3, MP4, Matreska, 3GP, Google Video, Flash Video, VOB, Ogg,OGM, MPEG-1, MPEG-2,MPEG-4 Part 2, MJPEG, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, Vorbis, AMR, QCELP,EVRC, MSVIDC
- Via RealPlayer or Real Alternative: RealMedia
- Via QuickTime or QuickTime Alternative: QuickTime File Format
- Audio CD (requires Windows 2000 or Windows XP)
- DVD, Video CD, SVCD
The player can play incomplete, broken or damaged AVI files by skipping bad frames and rebuilding the file's index when necessary. GOM Player also supports peer-to-peer video streaming through an official add-on called GOMTV Streamer.
Subtitles
The latest version of GOM Player supports the following subtitle formats:
- Unicode Text Subtitles
- SAMI (.smi)
- SubRipText (.srt), MicroDVD (.sub), SMIL/REAL/Text
- SubStation Alpha (.ssa), Advanced SubStation Alpha (.ass)
- VOB sub (.sub + .idx)
- Embedded subtitles of ASF, MKV, OGM
Codec finder
Another significant feature of GOM Player is that where it can't play the audio or video of a media file natively, it will try to find an appropriate external codec which will play that file format, using the format's GUID, a unique identifier for the required codec. On finding a match, it will direct the user to a webpage where the codec can be downloaded and installed.
