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post #21 of 68
7/24/07 at 9:04am
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Originally Posted by apathy View Post
The only thing I noticed is that the playback on GOM for some reason is not as smooth as on WMP 11. On my desktop GOM works great and I have no complaints, however my laptop doesn't seem to like it. I thought it might be one of the settings, but I tried everything and it still seems to be just a little bit choppy... :/
Some movies have a choppy playback, but other are just fine. Id say about 5% of all movies I play are a little choppy, but those are such small numbers i really dont even notice it. I find MPeg/mpg to be most choopyy. However most files I watch are AVI or MP4 so playback is fine.
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post #22 of 68
7/24/07 at 12:07pm
Thread Starter 
Well, why do they play fine on WMP 11 yet a little choppy on GOM? Looks at times as if you can see the frames moving one by one. heh. Must be some option here that is turned on, or the wrong codec...
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post #23 of 68
7/24/07 at 12:22pm
I have WM9 endocer, divx, mepg2setup (dvd codec) coreaasetup (mp4 codec) and its all hunky dorey here
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post #24 of 68
7/24/07 at 2:32pm
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Originally Posted by apathy View Post
Well, why do they play fine on WMP 11 yet a little choppy on GOM? Looks at times as if you can see the frames moving one by one. heh. Must be some option here that is turned on, or the wrong codec...

GOMPlayer uses some internal (actually not so much internal but installed with the program) decoders/splitters/etc. That may result into some funky DirectShow decoder chain. You may have to tweak the codec priority and which "external" (that is external realtive to GOMPlayer) codecs to use. Should be somewhere in GOMPlayer settings. A good MPEG2 decoder usually uses hardware (video card) assistance to smooth the picture.
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post #25 of 68
7/24/07 at 2:38pm
to get gom player using all extensins do this

start- all prgms-gom player- gom wizard. This is the 'settings' options for GOM- tik through until you get to 'associated extensions' and you will see 6 boxes, 3 of which are 'unticked'. Simply tick all 6 boxes and hit 'next' and this will save your settings. Now that uve done this uve added several extensions to GOM's detection list

I like GOM becasue it has hot buttons (i know others do, but i like Gom's)

Enter=fullscreen
Ctrl+Enter= stretch image
right arrow key- FF 10 sec
left arrow key= RW 10 sec
Up and DOwn arrows= volume

You can change the way it does 'time jump' (FF/RW) by clicking on the GOM image on top left of player- go to 'prefs' 'playback' go to 'time jump' and chnage it if u want. (i do time jump of 5 sec)

Hope it helps
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post #26 of 68
7/24/07 at 2:40pm
I do have other codec installed for GOM. If you dont have it GOM you prompt you to DL it and install it.
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post #27 of 68
7/25/07 at 10:39am
I prefer Windows media player classic (6.4???) with k-lite codec pak. Very simple, can open multiple videos at once, and works great.
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post #28 of 68
7/26/07 at 1:44am
I use vlc mostly, however I don't like the toolbars. Is there a hide option? May try gom as it sounds versatile as well.
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post #29 of 68
7/28/07 at 12:39pm
well after using gom for a few days, i can safely say its a great video player... uses up a tiny bit less resources, but for higher quality video it isnt as good as vlc.
for your average downloaded avi file, it'll perform great tho...

so im keeping both depending on what im watching
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post #30 of 68
7/28/07 at 2:26pm
really i couldn't stand VLC UI. It just wasnt appealing.
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post #31 of 68
7/28/07 at 2:46pm
You do realise that the VLC UI can be skinned right?

Seablade
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post #32 of 68
8/6/07 at 2:49pm
i dont really like VLC to be honest.... skins or no skins the UI is pretty craptastic. so that puts media player classic towards the top of my list, though mplayer is really high up on that list too .
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post #33 of 68
8/7/07 at 7:14pm
I use POwerDVD 7.3 mainly because it support Blu Ray and HD DVD.
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post #34 of 68
8/9/07 at 4:39am
Thread Starter 
Just FYI, I fixed the jerky playback on the laptop and now I can use GOM with no problems. The problem was fixed with a hotfix from Microsoft for Vista. Now it's all smooth.
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post #35 of 68
8/9/07 at 5:16pm
Sadly VLC has been having a lot of issues with my laptop so I am back to WMP or Winamp.
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post #36 of 68
9/6/07 at 9:40pm
Media player
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post #37 of 68
9/6/07 at 10:17pm
K lite codec pack full (comes with media player classic)

im a minimalist, so this player is great, switched over from vlc and gom.
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post #38 of 68
9/29/07 at 11:36am
QT pro baby
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post #39 of 68
9/29/07 at 2:05pm
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QT pro baby
GOM player baby
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post #40 of 68
9/29/07 at 7:16pm
MPC baby
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