You’ve got tonnes of high quality video files and high bit rate mp3 files in your computer, and you can’t find a media player just good enough to play all of them. So, you resort with the default player in your Windows, the Windows Media Player. The next thing is, you started to curse Microsoft for not having all the codecs installed for the beautifully designed Media Player. And then Windows recommend you to follow the steps to get the codes, so you follow without questions and install the codecs one by one. Why all the hassles when you can get a better media player? And guess what, it’s free!

Introducing the Gom Media Player, created by Gretech Corporation of South Korea. Comes in 4.44MB installation file, this player is real small. Don’t be deceived by its miniscule size, this player packed a punch of features which leaves Windows Media Player in real shy.

Gom Player supports a great deal of codecs, if you are playing some media files with rare codecs which Gom doesn’t have, Gom will direct you to the download page for the codec file. A good feature which I believe every media player should have.

If you’re a video affectionado which can’t live without having the subtitle in every movies watched, “” Gom Player further enhance the subtitle experience by letting you to adjust it in any way you desired. You can customize the font, size, colour, spacing between characters, and even allows you to position the subtitle anywhere in the screen.

For video enhancements, the Gom Player lets you to adjust the brightness, contrast, saturation and hue for the video played. Video sharpening and smothering options are available for those who want to toy with the quality of the video. Apart from these, aspect ratio and video effect adjustments are present in the Gom Player as well, which are pretty common in most video players.

The audio options in this player is not a let down either. A plethora of options available like audio equalizer, normalizer, AC3 settings with gain control as well, voice filtering, and you can even tweak some effects like reverb and extra 3D stereo.

All in all, this player deserves a 5 star rating. I used to have VLC player in my machince, it used to be a good player, but some minor bugs and the new version of the player makes it not as user friendly as before. Ever since I found this Gom Media player, I no longer use VLC or Windows Media Player anymore.

Click here for the download link.

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