It is the primary client player for South Korean GOM-TV, and is more popular in South Korea than any other media player. Key strengths are the ability to play the majority of media files - including .flv files - without needing to obtain an external codec, and the ability to play some broken media files. Both of those features are significant advantages over traditional media players, such as Windows Media Player.
The latest version of GOM Player will playback the following types of media file.
- Incomplete or damaged AVI files (skipping the damaged frames)
- Broken AVI files (rebuilding the file's Index in real-time)
- ASF/OGG/MP3/AVI files on an HTTP Streaming connection
- Using DirectShow it will play these file formats: AVI, WMV, Matroska, QuickTime, MP4, 3GP, Google Video, Flash Video, VOB, Ogg, OGM, RMVB, MPEG-1, MPEG-2
- RealMedia files (requires Real Alternative installed)
- QuickTime files (requires QuickTime Alternative installed)
- Audio CD (requires Windows 2000 or Windows XP)
- DVD (requires MPEG-2 codec installed)
- Video CDs/SVCDs/XCD s
Supported video/audio formats
The latest version of GOM Player natively supports the following video and audio formats, without any external codecs -- Video formats
- MPEG-1, MPEG-4 Part 2, MS MPEG4 V1/2/3, MJPEG, H.263(+), H.264 (MPEG-4 AVC), FLV1, MSVIDC
Subtitles
The latest version of GOM Player supports the following subtitle formats -- Unicode Text Subtitles
- SAMI (smi)
- SubRipText (srt), MicroDVD (sub), SMIL/RealText
- SubStation Alpha (ssa), Advanced SubStation Alpha (ass)
- VOBsub (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 appropriate codec can be downloaded and installed.GOM TV
GOM TV is a popular streaming service in South Korea, and as the most attractive feature in GOM Player is chiefly responsible for GOM Player's overwhelming popularity in South Korea. The GOM TV service offers users various video contents ranging from National Geographic documentaries and television dramas to major motion pictures and adult videos.The service mixes both ad-supported and pay-per-view content. Prices range from 500 won and up (approximately 50 cents U.S.), with most movies available for 2,000 won (approximately US$2).
While the functions are very similar in the English and Korean language versions of GOM Player, the option to watch GOM TV is absent in the English language version.
The GOM Player (up to v2.1.9) allowed American users to connect to the GOM TV StarLeague (a channel of South Korea's GOM TV), to watch the latest matches in South Korea's StarCraft leagues. This feature was tested during the GOM TV Star Invitational, which airs each February. Despite this, the GOM television service is still not included in the English language release (so that American viewers who wish to watch StarCraft matches must use the StarCraft website to connect to the streaming servers). GOM TV now shows e-sports games of Starcraft and Warcraft, so A.V.A. Users can watch the videos for free or choose to pay a fee to download VODs (Video On Demand).
Popularity in South Korea
GOM Player is South Korea's most popular media player. As of July 2007, it had 8.4 million users, compared to 5.4 million users of Microsoft's Windows Media Player.A survey of usage over a single week by Metrix, an internet survey company, found that 69.8% of users watched pornography, 43.2% watched cinematic movies, 29.6% watched television dramas, 21.8% watched variety shows, 11% watched cartoons, and 7% watched music videos. This is in line with South Korea being the greatest spender per capita on pornography, even though local production of pornography is illegal. Gretech disputes the credibility of this report.
Metrix obtained the survey data from 12,000 internet users who agreed to voluntarily install a monitoring tool. Only file names were used to categorize the media files included in the survey.
Gretech points out that media files played by GOM Player are not monitored, and that only the explicit installation of the Metrix survey software enabled that monitoring to be done.
Controversy
GOM Player is listed in FFmpeg's Hall of Shame, indicating that it is violating FFmpeg's software license terms. However, GOM Player has now acknowledged that it uses FFmpeg source code, saying that it is licensed under the LGPL, and has provided the modified FFmpeg source code.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOM_Player
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