Gretech - (Freeware)
GOM Player offers an interesting alternative to players.
GOM Player, as its name suggests, is a software program specially designed to play media files. It is compatible with all major codecs and formats : DivX , WMV , AVI , 3GP, MP4 or MKV, being very easy to handle. Its simple and customizable interface has many different skins available which are all elegant without being austere. Shortcut keys are available to facilitate handling.
The software offers many display options: change the aspect ratio (4:3 , 16:9, 1.85 , 2.35), Pan and Scan for allergic users with black bands, picture settings, equalizer is also present and a screenshot module.
It also has a detection system that prevents user from seeking the missing codec when he is unable to read video. Besides the many settings of the video, audio, subtitles and skins to customize the player, the application is also able to read the files that user is downloading.
The image capture from a video is also on the agenda. Just in this case to capture an image and paste it into an image editor, like Paint. After that, it remains to be saved in the desired format.
* Made major improvements to the Gretech Source Filter, affecting the issues below:
- Improved playback support for MOV files recorded by CASIO digital cameras.
- Improved player's ability to correctly recognize display aspect ratios for various file types.
- Fixed an issue where some MOV files would not play smoothly below 1x playback speed.
- Improved playback support for RAW AVI files.
- Fixed an issue where certain files with multiple audio tracks would play at double speed after changing the audio track and improved playback for such files.
- Corrected playback time display and playback support for certain WMV files.
- Fixed seeking issues in certain FLV files.
- Improved playback support for MPEG1 and MPEG2 files (TS, MTS, M2TS, etc.)
- Improved playback support for OGM files.
- Corrected an issue where certain videos with a single audio track would be recognized as dual-audio.
* 90, 180, and 270 degree rotation feature added. This feature can be enabled from the player preferences window, the right-click menu under "Video", and via the keyboard shortcut [Ctrl] + [Shift] + [S].
* Added Playback support for H.265 (HEVC) video files.
* Album art will now be displayed when playing MP3 files instead of the animated GOM background (but only if readable album art data is present for the file you are playing!)
* Added hardware playback support for Intel Quick Sync Video.
* Improved the "Move by keyframe" feature.
* Added support for AC3-SPDIF Output.
* Added support for Apple Closed Caption subtitles.
* Fixed an issue where DVD playback on certain 32bit OS would cause forced terminationsof GOM Media Player.
* Added links to the Official Gom Media Player website, FAQ, etc. to the default GOM2.2 skin.
* Corrected a security issue
* Other misc. changes and fixes.