When comparing QuickTime vs GOM-Player, the Slant community recommends GOM-Player for most people. In the question“What are the best video players for Windows? (precision, hotkeys, timeline)” GOM-Player is ranked 6th while QuickTime is ranked 12th. The most important reason people chose GOM-Player is:
Automatically adds files with similar name to playlist
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Pros
Pro Recording and editing is possible
Unlike other video players, QuickTime offers recording and editing opportunity. To unlock this features QuickTime Pro 7 is required, which is a fee-based software (29.99$). Program features include possibility to record video and audio directly from microphone, FireWire camcorder and iSight camera. Speaking of video editing, cutting, deleting, resizing, flipping, or rotating a movie is possible.
Pro Easy to use streaming features
QuickTime video player has "Zero-configuration streaming" - video player automatically determines best connection speed. Plus, it can automatically reconnect, if the connection was lost. Step by step video file stream or broadcast guide can be found in the source.
Pro Screen recording is a easy
Pro Elegant look and comfortable interface
QuickTime is developed by Apple, which is known for its plain, but gorgeous and user-friendly design. QuickTime is included in the list of default programs on macOS systems, so it is a good free option for beginners and users who love style and comfort.
Pro Posh smell
Look up Posh and see if you think a software movie player should be POSH. What a hoot.
Pro Auto add playlist
Automatically adds files with similar name to playlist
Pro Nice working skin engine
In contrast to some other popular players out there, the GOM Player skin engine really works out. Skins on GOM Player feel quite natural and everything is still very responsive. So even skins in use, the whole player doesn't feel bloated.
Pro Allows renaming of files while playing
Something I did not encounter often is the fact, that GOM Player has some magic trick up its sleeve. It mostly allows to rename the currently playing files and sometimes I can even move them. I cannot really tell how that works, but it does (playing from UNC network paths here (ntfs, windows)).
Pro Easy playback control
Whether it's switching audio channels, aspect ratio, playback size. All can be done easily via context menu or keyboard shortcuts or even mouse clicks if configured.
Cons
Con Video player can interfere with other software
Leaving QuickTime's video player running in background doesn't play well with certain software, especially games and full-screen software.
Con Some common video file formats are not supported
QuickTime does not have native support for some common formats such as DivX, .wmv, and .mkvs.
Con Can't play .srt subtitle files
Con Crashes after OS X update
Sometimes after an OS X update, if the video player wasn’t updated for a long time, QuickTime can crash for no reason
Con Ads and a little bulk
Recent version got a bit bulkier than they were some years ago. If things get to much, use one of the older versions, they play mp4 and mkv just fine. Also needs some firewall tweaking to get rid of occasional ads in the free version.