On 1/17/08, Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/17/linux.korea says everyone in Korea uses the GOM player... It installs ok, but blew up when I tried to load the Sony music stream from its playlist. ... http://www.gomplayer.com/ supposedly comes with lots of codecs.
I tried it some time ago. On the pro side it supports just about any media stream out of the box, well ok quite a lot. It's a one time stop for RM, WMF and QT media.
On the con side I didn't like it's perseverance in trying to install all kinds of additional "gadgets" that I wouldn't care of or wouldn't fully trust with.
As nice as it seemed to be able to watch just about every common media format out there, I deinstalled it after a short trial. Didn't test it in Wine though as watching media in Linux itself although not as painless isn't that difficult either.
For my Windows box I use Media Player Classic with QT and RM codec support now and that works almost flawlessly.
Rolf Kalbermatter