GOM Player
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 GOM Player, using default skin | |
| Developer(s) | GOM & Company (Previously Gretech) |
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| Initial release | January 7, 2003 |
| Stable release |
2.3.71.5335 (November 19, 2021[1])
1.5.1 (February 26, 2020[2])
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| Preview release | None [±] |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows, macOS, Android, iOS |
| Platform | x86-64 |
| Available in | Korean, English, Japanese, Spanish, Turkish, Russian, Portuguese, Thai, German, French, Italian, Czech, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified) |
| License | Adware |
| Website | gomlab |
GOM Player is a media player for Microsoft Windows, developed by GOM & Company. With more than 100 million downloads, it is also known as the most used player in South Korea.[citation needed] Its main features include the ability to play some broken media files and find missing codecs using a codec finder service.[4]
The word gom (곰) means "bear" in Korean, and as such the icon of GOM Player looks like a bear's paw.
GOM Player has a free version and a paid version. The paid version name is GOM Player Plus, and it allows video playback without advertisements and includes convenient features such as simple configuration.
Features
[edit]- GOM Player has several embedded video and audio codecs, so it can play immediately without installing any external codecs. If there is no codec, it can be found with a codec search feature.
- The basic embedded codec has the advantage of making it easier for computer beginners who lack knowledge of codecs to play videos.
- Video files that are incomplete, damaged, or not completely downloaded can also be played.
- If the file name of a video file and subtitles are the same, subtitles are automatically displayed when the video is running.
- If there is no subtitle file, subtitles can be found in the subtitles archive supported by GOM Player.
- GOM Player started supporting 360 video (360VR) for the first time as a domestic video player in December 2015, and also has supported 360 video on GOM Player mobile app since June 2016.
- 360 degree videos and trending videos on YouTube can be played through the right panel called Miniweb.
- In 2019, the preferences of GOM player were newly reorganized.
- In 2020, a new version of GOM player macOS was released.
- GOM player is available on mobile (Android/iOS).
- In 2020, the company released a new GOM Player app optimized for iPhones.
Supported formats
[edit]GOM Player can play following multimedia formats:
- Video
- Windows: .avi, .ogm, .mkv, .mp4, .k3g, .ifo, .ts, .asf, .wmv, .wma, .mov, .mpg, .m1v, .m2v, .vob, .m4v, .3gp/3gp2, .rmvb, .rm, .ogg, .flv, .asx(영상), .dat + When an external codec is used, other video formats can also be used.
- Mac: .mkv, .mp4, .avi, .m4v, .mov, .3gp, .ts, .mts, .m2ts, .wmv, .flv, .f4v, .asf, .webm, .rm, .rmvb, .qt, .dv, .mpg, .mpeg, .mxf, .vob, .gif
- Audio
- Subtitles
Third-party malware controversy
[edit]In January 2019, it was reported to install third-party malware.[5] Users also reported the issue a year before in January 2018.[6]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Windows Desktop". web site. 2019-04-16. Retrieved 2019-04-16.
- ^ "Apple on the App Store". iTunes Store. 2019-03-05. Retrieved 2019-03-05.
- ^ "GOM Player". Google Play Store. 2019-03-14. Retrieved 2019-03-14.
- ^ "Specifications". GOMlab. GOM&Company. Archived from the original on 19 December 2013. Retrieved 20 December 2013.
- ^ "Opera Blacklists Tampermonkey Extension Being Installed by Malware". BleepingComputer. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
- ^ "Infected by updating Gom Player - Am I infected? What do I do?". BleepingComputer.com. Retrieved 2019-01-14.