Best Free Vista Media Player - GOM Player
Windows Media Player 11 or commonly known as WMP 11 in Windows Vista is a bloated software media player, which famous for its slow loading time, slow response time, lack of codecs and full with DRM anti fair use restriction crap. You probably won’t want to use it with Windows Vista. If so, you can try out GOM Player, one of the best alternative media player for Vista, if not the best.
GOM Player has the tagline of “Simple, Free & Light. It just plays!” So GOM Player is free and works perfectly in Windows Vista to play video smoothly. What make GOM Player a great and better media player is it has built-in support for most popular codecs (AVI, DAT, MPEG, DivX plus many more) with its own embedded codec system, and has a much pretty user interface compared with versatile VLC player. So you do not need to download any codec pack to install. It’s also customizable with skin to match your Vista theme.
Download GOM Player.
Screenshot of best Vista media player - GOM Player:
Another good alternative is KMPlayer.
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June 15th, 2007 08:18
Best player or not for which OS depend on the user. For me, I’ve just tried out this player some weeks ago and disappointed. I can’t use VSFilter.dll with it as there’s no option to load external sub filter (so no ass and ssa sub), and the internal codec (based on ffmpeg of course), somehow messed up by gretech and play h264 in slideshow fashion.
If you like a all in one player better try out kmplayer it works great with everything I throw at it. Have EVR support, styled sub formats support and can load external codec and sub filter with ease if you like. The downside of this player is clunky preferences window and use a little more CPU than other lightweight DirectShow based player if you use external codec (maybe because it has so many video and audio post processing in it).
For me, I’m currently using Zoomplayer as it’s lightweight (no internal filter as I make my own you-could-call codec pack with ffshow and some gabest’s filters)and has nice interface.
June 15th, 2007 17:23
With so many positive reviews, I tried steadfastly to make VLC my regular player. When VLC would not work (I guess, because of my own particular video selection)) I tried GOM. In every case I have thrown at it, GOM worked where VLC didn’t. Needless to say, GOM is now my primary player.
I still can’t explain it other than saying that I must have a quirky video selection. Everywhere I go, VLC is touted as the play-all player and I don’t doubt those reviews, but for me GOM is the only one that fills the ticket.
June 19th, 2007 15:54
Looks nice but GOM can’t play DVR-MS files. There was a bug report filed on their discussion group in March but noone has replied to it yet. Pity - looks nice.
June 21st, 2007 03:00
I love GOM. That is what i miss most about my pc.
But now that I have a new Mac, I am at a loss to what can replace my GOM player. DO you have any suggestions as to a free, light All-format player?
Thanks!
February 1st, 2008 00:32
Is er ook een Nederlandse versie van GOMplayer?
March 19th, 2008 22:07
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June 19th, 2008 12:46
Amazing player. I use a vlite’d vista and after a fresh install didn’t bother installing any codec pack or wmp. So far it has played everything including dvd’s.