Re: UPDATE: GOM media player 2.1.14.4525
Chakolate
@news.motzarella.org:
> (Q) We are offering you the world's best media player! (/Q)
>
Nearly every time I try to play something on GOM, I'm told I don't have
the proper codecs, sent to a website where I can get them, am told there
are no such codecs.
Sigh.
Chak
--
I like the scientific spirit - the holding off, the being sure but not
too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against
them: This is ultimately fine - it always keeps the way open.
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FredW
<chakolateDea...@gmail.com> wrote:
>F. Reeware <F.Reewa...@hotmail.com> wrote in news:gj0uo9$mci$1
>@news.motzarella.org:
>
>> (Q) We are offering you the world's best media player! (/Q)
>>
>
>Nearly every time I try to play something on GOM, I'm told I don't have
>the proper codecs, sent to a website where I can get them, am told there
>are no such codecs.
I never have any problems with GOM Player.
It is my main player for almost all media.
Just using Quicktime Alternative (Media Player Classic)
for Quicktime files.
;-)
--
Fred W. (NL)
Franklin
<chakolateDea...@gmail.com> wrote
> F. Reeware <F.Reewa...@hotmail.com> wrote in
> news:gj0uo9$mci$1 @news.motzarella.org:
>
>> [...]
>
> Nearly every time I try to play something on GOM, I'm told I
> don't have the proper codecs, sent to a website where I can get
> them, am told there are no such codecs.
>
> Sigh.
>
> Chak
>
Others have reported the same problem. Never seen an answer for it
though.
FredW
<chakolateDea...@gmail.com> wrote:
>F. Reeware <F.Reewa...@hotmail.com> wrote in news:gj0uo9$mci$1
>@news.motzarella.org:
>
>> (Q) We are offering you the world's best media player! (/Q)
>>
>
>Nearly every time I try to play something on GOM, I'm told I don't have
>the proper codecs, sent to a website where I can get them, am told there
>are no such codecs.
Which website?
Have you tried K-Lite Codec Pack Standard?
http://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm
see also:
http://www.codecguide.com/about_kl.htm#variants
--
Fred W. (NL)
Franklin
wrote
> Franklin <see_my_REPL...@void.invalid>:
>
>> Others have reported the same problem. Never seen an answer
>> for it though.
>
> Wasn't the GOM player wholeheartedly recommended and fanatically
> defended by you know whom? I am sure his research was carried
> out expertly and with the utmost thoroughness. Not a shadow of a
> doubt here.
>
> Yrrah
>
That's right. Mr Bottoms's favorite media player was GOM.
Ne plus ultra for all time. Well. For a few weeks at least. Until
something shinier and brighter comes along.
I guess boring things like audio quality and how to update codecs
don't really worry our in-house freeware scientist.
Bear Bottoms
news:r4mcl4h5463qa3fnb...@net.com:
> Franklin <see_my_REPL...@void.invalid>:
>
>> Others have reported the same problem. Never seen an answer for it
>> though.
>
> Wasn't the GOM player wholeheartedly recommended and fanatically
> defended by you know whom? I am sure his research was carried out
> expertly and with the utmost thoroughness. Not a shadow of a doubt
> here.
>
> Yrrah
>
I've been using GOM player ever since without any issues at all. It is a
great player.
Of course, with you snuggling up to Franklin, I'm not surprise at any of
the trash that might come out of your mouth. Such behavior as yours
doesn't do any good as a representative of PWH...kinda like John Stubby
who's signature also advertises PWH. Kinda like Charles Manson as a
promoter...runs people away fast. Carry on!
--
Bear Bottoms
Freeware website: http://bearware.info
Bear Bottoms
news:lqqcl4t8i8rdfkud4...@4ax.com:
>>Nearly every time I try to play something on GOM, I'm told I don't have
>>the proper codecs, sent to a website where I can get them, am told there
>>are no such codecs.
Sounds to me like you have a virus or some type of malware. I've been using
GOM for months and months and have not had any issues with it at all. It
just plays everything I throw at it...the energizer bunny of video players
:)
John Stubbings
Yet another dick head who lets me know that I've wound them up. It always
eats away at them and they slip it out like the 2 bit tossers they are.
Eat my sig, bottoms...
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Thomas Stevens
> On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:44:40 +0000 (UTC), Bear Bottoms wrote:
>
>> Yrrah <Yrrah_use...@themailbox.ca> wrote in
>> news:r4mcl4h5463qa3fnb...@net.com:
>>
>>> Franklin <see_my_REPL...@void.invalid>:
>>>
>>>> Others have reported the same problem. Never seen an answer for it
>>>> though.
>>> Wasn't the GOM player wholeheartedly recommended and fanatically
>>> defended by you know whom? I am sure his research was carried out
>>> expertly and with the utmost thoroughness. Not a shadow of a doubt
>>> here.
>>>
>>> Yrrah
>>>
>> I've been using GOM player ever since without any issues at all. It is a
>> great player.
>>
>> Of course, with you snuggling up to Franklin, I'm not surprise at any of
>> the trash that might come out of your mouth. Such behavior as yours
>> doesn't do any good as a representative of PWH...kinda like John Stubby
>> who's signature also advertises PWH. Kinda like Charles Manson as a
>> promoter...runs people away fast. Carry on!
>
> Yet another dick head who lets me know that I've wound them up. It always
> eats away at them and they slip it out like the 2 bit tossers they are.
>
Isn't that strange? That sounds exactly like what *you're* doing right now!!
Methinks that's called "projection".
Now, eat my sig, Stubby
--
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Chakolate
news:Xns9B81A5D9...@204.153.245.20:
So what media player would you recommend? I'd really like something that
will actually play anything, as was promised by GOM's adherents.
Chak
--
It is so important to be proved wrong when one is.
--Quentin Grady, posting to alt.support.diabetes
Chakolate
>
> Have you tried K-Lite Codec Pack Standard?
> http://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm
> see also:
> http://www.codecguide.com/about_kl.htm#variants
>
I'll keep these handy, thanks.
Chakolate
news:Xns9B8181C533E5Ab...@85.214.105.209:
> FredW <fr...@blackholespam.net> wrote in
> news:lqqcl4t8i8rdfkud4...@4ax.com:
>
>>>Nearly every time I try to play something on GOM, I'm told I don't
>>>have the proper codecs, sent to a website where I can get them, am
>>>told there are no such codecs.
>
> Sounds to me like you have a virus or some type of malware. I've been
> using GOM for months and months and have not had any issues with it at
> all. It just plays everything I throw at it...the energizer bunny of
> video players
>:)
>
I'm happy for you, but your insistence that there's nothing wrong with it
doesn't help me fix it, you know?
Don Kirkman
<Xns9B8181C533E5Ab...@85.214.105.209>:
>FredW <fr...@blackholespam.net> wrote in
>news:lqqcl4t8i8rdfkud4...@4ax.com:
>>>Nearly every time I try to play something on GOM, I'm told I don't have
>>>the proper codecs, sent to a website where I can get them, am told there
>>>are no such codecs.
>Sounds to me like you have a virus or some type of malware. I've been using
>GOM for months and months and have not had any issues with it at all. It
>just plays everything I throw at it...the energizer bunny of video players
>:)
I reported months ago in this group that when GOM hits an unfamiliar
encoding it *automatically* transfers the user to a site where codecs
are supposedly available; I can't remember ever actually receiving the
needed codec instead of a "no codec available" message. Other than
that I like GOM somewhat, but I have a couple of other players I find
better, VLC because it comes with builtin codecs and SM/Mplayer
because it has a wide range of codecs available. I also find more
ability to adjust picture elements (aspect, color, etc) while a file
is playing in SMplayer than I do in GOM.
Perhaps you use a smaller selection of file types than I do? ISO, VOB,
IMG, etc.
--
Don Kirkman
don...@charter.net
Bear Bottoms
news:Xns9B8190B6F3BDDc...@207.115.33.102:
> Bear Bottoms <bearbo...@gmai.com> wrote in
> news:Xns9B8181C533E5Ab...@85.214.105.209:
>
>> FredW <fr...@blackholespam.net> wrote in
>> news:lqqcl4t8i8rdfkud4...@4ax.com:
>>
>>>>Nearly every time I try to play something on GOM, I'm told I don't
>>>>have the proper codecs, sent to a website where I can get them, am
>>>>told there are no such codecs.
>>
>> Sounds to me like you have a virus or some type of malware. I've been
>> using GOM for months and months and have not had any issues with it
>> at all. It just plays everything I throw at it...the energizer bunny
>> of video players
>>:)
>>
>
> I'm happy for you, but your insistence that there's nothing wrong with
> it doesn't help me fix it, you know?
>
> Chak
>
I gave you advice. You say fix "it." I say clean your machine from
malware. You may also be trying to play a corrupt or infected video.
There are stories of people picking up baddies and screwed up videos from
P2P...which my guess is these are the files you are trying to
play...unless of course your machine is infected. GOM player works fine.
There are some instances where software just doesn't like a certain PC's
configuration, which is usually settings made or changed for other
software that conflicts.
Bear Bottoms
news:c11dl4do3cq4ioo76...@4ax.com:
Not at all. GOM player is the default for all video formats and I haven't
found any it doesn't handle. A long while back, it sent me to collect
some codecs, but it seems I have all I need now. BTW, everytime it sent
me to get a codec, I was able to download and install it. I've had
excellent results with it.
As for settings...they are very good, fast, and easy to use:
E,R T,Y U,I O,P keyboard shortcuts quickly achieve the tweaking when a
video needs it. Way too simple.
Bear Bottoms
news:Xns9B8190D1BB1C1c...@207.115.33.102:
> FredW <fr...@blackholespam.net> wrote in
> news:lqqcl4t8i8rdfkud4...@4ax.com:
>
>
>>
>> Have you tried K-Lite Codec Pack Standard?
>> http://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm
>> see also:
>> http://www.codecguide.com/about_kl.htm#variants
>>
>
> I'll keep these handy, thanks.
>
> Chak
>
Codec packs are not advised by many in the know.
alvey
The above is an extract from 'Great Moments in Help Desk History'.
Available from the discount bins at all $2 shops.
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Franklin
<anna.riceD...@virgin.net> wrote
> On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:44:40 +0000 (UTC), Bear Bottoms wrote:
>
>> [...]
>
> Yet another dick head who lets me know that I've wound them up.
> It always eats away at them and they slip it out like the 2 bit
> tossers they are.
>
> Eat my sig, bottoms...
>
You sure got to him!
Now, when you pull his string, he jumps. Nice one.
--
Destroy the Triumvirate.
John Stubbings
Now, eat my sig, one-trick
Franklin
> John Stubbings wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Isn't that strange? That sounds exactly like what *you're* doing
> right now!!
>
> Methinks that's called "projection".
>
> Now, eat my sig, Stubby
>
Oh my!
Now we get some of Hummingbird's dumb psychology.
Chris, did you learn it from reading a cornflakes packet?
alvey
> Chakolate <chakolateDea...@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:Xns9B8190D1BB1C1c...@207.115.33.102:
>
>> FredW <fr...@blackholespam.net> wrote in
>> news:lqqcl4t8i8rdfkud4...@4ax.com:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Have you tried K-Lite Codec Pack Standard?
>>> http://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm
>>> see also:
>>> http://www.codecguide.com/about_kl.htm#variants
>>>
>>
>> I'll keep these handy, thanks.
>>
>> Chak
>>
> Codec packs are not advised by many in the know.
What's your opinion then?
alvey
Filling in the gaps since 1997.
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Thomas Stevens
Is that the best you can do, Frank Jr.?
Showing signs of old age, aren't you?
Meanwhile, I get more "free" airtime, thanks to you.
Franklin
<chakolateDea...@gmail.com> wrote
> Franklin <see_my_REPL...@void.invalid> wrote in
> news:Xns9B81A5D9...@204.153.245.20:
>
>> [...]
>
> So what media player would you recommend? I'd really like
> something that will actually play anything, as was promised by
> GOM's adherents.
>
> Chak
>
ISTR native GOM didn't play some formats like DivX or the Real
formats. Otherwise it comes with its own codecs. Other players
may use system-wide codecs.
SMplayer/MPUI (these are two interfaces to the same playing
engine) seems to use better codecs in the few A-B comparisons I
have done.
VLC is a sweetie and can handle slightly damaged video files too
but ISTR the very latest builds may not have been compiled for XP,
so check carefully.
Some prefer MPlayer although it would be best to see some recent
threads here in ACF about it as the development has now forked.
I've always had a soft spot for Zoom Player although I reckon it's
not quite as impressive as the others above. It's interface (if
that's an important factor for you) is the closest of these to
GOM.
Other posters have liked KMplayer and I find it is good but it's
far eastern origins make support a bit less straighforward than I
would like.
John Stubbings
> On Sat 27 Dec08 20:00, John Stubbings
> <anna.riceD...@virgin.net> wrote
>
>> On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:44:40 +0000 (UTC), Bear Bottoms wrote:
>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> Yet another dick head who lets me know that I've wound them up.
>> It always eats away at them and they slip it out like the 2 bit
>> tossers they are.
>>
>> Eat my sig, bottoms...
>>
>
> You sure got to him!
>
> Now, when you pull his string, he jumps. Nice one.
Yeah, really funny, he's gone and posted about everyone in the haters list
having the sig now to look like he's brushing it off.
New sig
--
Eat my sig, Bottoms...
You gotta fight, for your right, to party...
Destroy the Triumvirate...
John Stubbings
I have to say alvey, you've really been on form the last couple of weeks.
If it was up to me I'd promote you up the haters list...
--
Eat my sig, Bottoms...
You gotta fight, for your right, to party...
Destroy the Triumvirate...
The best of the best in Freeware
John Stubbings
> Franklin wrote:
>> On Sat 27 Dec08 20:07, Thomas Stevens <tste...@nospam.nat> wrote
>>
>>> John Stubbings wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>> Isn't that strange? That sounds exactly like what *you're* doing
>>> right now!!
>>>
>>> Methinks that's called "projection".
>>>
>>> Now, eat my sig, Stubby
>>>
>>
>>
>> Oh my!
>>
>> Now we get some of Hummingbird's dumb psychology.
>>
>> Chris, did you learn it from reading a cornflakes packet?
>
>
> Is that the best you can do, Frank Jr.?
>
> Showing signs of old age, aren't you?
>
> Meanwhile, I get more "free" airtime, thanks to you.
Franklin challenged you to explain your pre school psycho babble, we note
you couldn't...
--
Eat my sig, Bottoms...
Thomas Stevens
> On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:04:51 -0500, Thomas Stevens wrote:
>
>> Franklin wrote:
>>> On Sat 27 Dec08 20:07, Thomas Stevens <tste...@nospam.nat> wrote
>>>
>>>> John Stubbings wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>>> Isn't that strange? That sounds exactly like what *you're* doing
>>>> right now!!
>>>>
>>>> Methinks that's called "projection".
>>>>
>>>> Now, eat my sig, Stubby
>>>>
>>>
>>> Oh my!
>>>
>>> Now we get some of Hummingbird's dumb psychology.
>>>
>>> Chris, did you learn it from reading a cornflakes packet?
>>
>> Is that the best you can do, Frank Jr.?
>>
>> Showing signs of old age, aren't you?
>>
>> Meanwhile, I get more "free" airtime, thanks to you.
>
>
> Franklin challenged you to explain your pre school psycho babble, we note
> you couldn't...
>
Everyone knows that anything, and everything that Frank Jr. mutters, can
be, and should be, promptly and summarily ignored.
We notice you don't.
Franklin
When my copy of GOM does not have the codec it needs, GOM issues
this URL to get the codec.
The URL has always failed for me. Perhaps it works for you?
<http://www.gomplayer.com/codec/search.html?type=9&guid={47504D20-
0000-0000-0000-FFFFFFFFFFFF}>
The GOM forums have a poster who has had the same problem. See
<http://preview.tinyurl.com/7lcmr7>
I am sure I tried the following advice from GOM to someone else to
delete the codecs and reinstall but it didn't work for me.
<http://www.gomlab.com/eng/forum.html?mode=viewpost&c=7&f=8&t=94>
> BTW, everytime it sent me to get a codec, I was able to
> download and install it. I've had excellent results with it.
>
> As for settings...they are very good, fast, and easy to use:
> E,R T,Y U,I O,P keyboard shortcuts quickly achieve the tweaking
> when a video needs it. Way too simple.
>
Other codec problems with GOM discussed in their forums are:
<http://www.gomlab.com/eng/forum.html?mode=viewpost&c=6&f=4&t=188>
<http://www.gomlab.com/eng/forum.html?mode=userPosts&ui=98695>
One unhappy customer says in GOM's forum: "As for me.. I'll go
find another player. Maybe someday GOM will actually be worth it
to download."
Franklin
Chris, I too get some more airtime. It's win-win for both of us!
----------------------
Meet "Kinky" Chris (sometimes known as "Hummingbird") ...
(a) Chris hiding his face with two prostitutes
http://i32.tinypic.com/mr7a1e.jpg
(b) Chris's hiding his face again
http://i44.tinypic.com/2djbi2a.jpg
----------------------
For a bonus, here's a picture of two strangely dressed gentlemen who
Chris found his loins were bursting with lust for. The sick pervert!
http://i30.tinypic.com/348irkn.jpg
--
Thomas Stevens
> On Sat 27 Dec08 21:04, Thomas Stevens <tste...@nospam.nat> wrote
>
>> Franklin wrote:
>>> On Sat 27 Dec08 20:07, Thomas Stevens <tste...@nospam.nat>
>>> wrote
>>>
>>>> John Stubbings wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>>> Isn't that strange? That sounds exactly like what *you're*
>>>> doing right now!!
>>>>
>>>> Methinks that's called "projection".
>>>>
>>>> Now, eat my sig, Stubby
>>>>
>>>
>>> Oh my!
>>>
>>> Now we get some of Hummingbird's dumb psychology.
>>>
>>> Chris, did you learn it from reading a cornflakes packet?
>>
>> Is that the best you can do, Frank Jr.?
>>
>> Showing signs of old age, aren't you?
>>
>> Meanwhile, I get more "free" airtime, thanks to you.
>>
>> Meet "Kinky" Friedman, not "Ari Silverstein"!:
>> http://www.lioncity.net/buddhism/uploads/1156281126/
>> gallery_414_82_1157190589.jpg
>>
>
> Chris, I too get some more airtime. It's win-win for both of us!
>
Only difference is, you're lying.
I'm not.
John Stubbings
--
Thomas Stevens
Don Kirkman
<Xns9B81D761...@204.153.245.20>:
>On Sat 27 Dec08 20:12, Chakolate
><chakolateDea...@gmail.com> wrote
>> So what media player would you recommend? I'd really like
>> something that will actually play anything, as was promised by
>> GOM's adherents.
>ISTR native GOM didn't play some formats like DivX or the Real
>formats. Otherwise it comes with its own codecs. Other players
>may use system-wide codecs.
>SMplayer/MPUI (these are two interfaces to the same playing
>engine) seems to use better codecs in the few A-B comparisons I
>have done.
It handles a wide range of codecs on my system; there is a pack out
there somewhere labeled as current SMplayer/MPUI codecs, and IIUC the
player also uses universal codecs if installed.
>VLC is a sweetie and can handle slightly damaged video files too
>but ISTR the very latest builds may not have been compiled for XP,
>so check carefully.
I've used VLC for quite a while, as my second best behind SMPlayer, on
Win XP SP3 without problems. I find the display features (aspect,
color, etc) a little harder to control during playback, but otherwise
like it very much.
>Some prefer MPlayer although it would be best to see some recent
>threads here in ACF about it as the development has now forked.
>I've always had a soft spot for Zoom Player although I reckon it's
>not quite as impressive as the others above. It's interface (if
>that's an important factor for you) is the closest of these to
>GOM.
I feel the same about Zoom.
--
Don Kirkman
don...@charter.net
Don Kirkman
<Xns9B81EA57...@204.153.245.20>:
>On Sat 27 Dec08 20:36, Bear Bottoms <bearbo...@gmai.com> wrote
>> Don Kirkman <don...@charter.net> wrote in
>> news:c11dl4do3cq4ioo76...@4ax.com:
>>> It seems to me I heard somewhere that Bear Bottoms wrote in
>>> article <Xns9B8181C533E5Ab...@85.214.105.209>:
>>>>FredW <fr...@blackholespam.net> wrote in
>>>>news:lqqcl4t8i8rdfkud4...@4ax.com:
>>>>>>Nearly every time I try to play something on GOM, I'm told I
>>>>>>don't have the proper codecs, sent to a website where I can
>>>>>>get them, am told there are no such codecs.
>>>
>>> I reported months ago in this group that when GOM hits an
>>> unfamiliar encoding it *automatically* transfers the user to a
>>> site where codecs are supposedly available; I can't remember
>>> ever actually receiving the needed codec instead of a "no codec
>>> available" message. Other than that I like GOM somewhat, but I
>>> have a couple of other players I find better, VLC because it
>>> comes with builtin codecs and SM/Mplayer because it has a wide
>>> range of codecs available. I also find more ability to adjust
>>> picture elements (aspect, color, etc) while a file is playing
>>> in SMplayer than I do in GOM.
Thanks to both of you for the discussion and the lengths. GOM sounds
like a mixed bag; I keep it on my system but rarely use it these days
because of the kinds of problems I have with it here.
--
Don Kirkman
don...@charter.net
John Stubbings
numpty no nothing, everyone can see Franklin made you look foolish
Thomas Stevens
You like to waste your time, don't you?
Meanwhile, I'm taking advantage of that.
alvey
Ta. I'm one of those people who thrive in the face of absurdity...
> If it was up to me I'd promote you up the haters list...
Can we set the bar a leetle higher? Like being named as one of Bumhead's
virtual pallbearers upon his departing ACF.
alvey
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