GOM Player

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GOM Player
Developer(s) GOM & Company (Previously Gretech)
Initial releaseJanuary 7, 2003;22 years ago (2003-01-07)
Stable release
Windows

2.3.71.5335 (November 19, 2021;3 years ago (2021-11-19) [1] )

Contents

iOS

1.5.1 (February 26, 2020;5 years ago (2020-02-26) [2] )

Android
1.6.1 (August 30, 2021;3 years ago (2021-08-30) [3] ) [±]
Preview release None [±]
Operating system Microsoft Windows, macOS, Android, iOS
Platform x86-64
Available inKorean, English, Japanese, Spanish, Turkish, Russian, Portuguese, Thai, German, French, Italian, Czech, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified)
Type Media player
License Adware
Website gomlab.com

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

Supported formats

GOM Player can play following multimedia formats:

Third-party malware controversy

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

References

  1. ↑ "Windows Desktop". web site . 2019-04-16. Retrieved 2019-04-16.
  2. ↑ "Apple on the App Store". iTunes Store. 2019-03-05. Retrieved 2019-03-05.
  3. ↑ "GOM Player". Google Play Store. 2019-03-14. Retrieved 2019-03-14.
  4. ↑ "Specifications". GOMlab. GOM&Company. Archived from the original on 19 December 2013. Retrieved 20 December 2013.
  5. ↑ "Opera Blacklists Tampermonkey Extension Being Installed by Malware". BleepingComputer. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
  6. ↑ "Infected by updating Gom Player - Am I infected? What do I do?". BleepingComputer.com. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
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