GOM player sounds attractive except that I’m sure somebody mentioned a completely universal, free media player that not only has all the codecs mentioned as included with GOM Player, but all of Apple’s codecs as well, so it can recognize purchased, protected-format video (with audio) and audio media downloaded from the iTunes Store as well as the Internet (e.g., AAC, or is it ACC?), as well as other purchased, protected file types such as “.RAX” music tracks purchased and downloaded through Rhapsody.
Does anyone know of a free, completely self-contained, universal media player such as this that is completely safe/trusted to download so I can not only throw WMP11 in the trash, but the iTunes Player and QuickTime as well, since I only need them to play a purchased video comedy concert I bought from the iTunes Store?
Even with the codecs installed to make both WMP11 and iTunes Player/QuickTime play video tracks, they all play video in a jerky manner. With WMP, DVD video playback on it displays very jerky, and it will not expand the image to true full-screen so it fills the whole monitor screen. With iTunes and QuickTime, video acceleration of any kind must be disabled (QuickTime actually has to be set to “Safe Mode” in its video playback settings = NO acceleration of any kind in order to play purchased Apple video tracks smoothER!) Ridiculous.
I’m sure all of us who love our music and video on our PC’s, and play CDs & DVDs on our PCs, would be very interested in hearing about such a player, if it really does exist (and from a trusted source so installing it won’t result in any adverse “side-effects” like pop-ups, hijackers, or system de-stablization).
Anyone???
