Light Alloy 4.8

Light Alloy

Light Alloy - is a completely free, compact multimedia player. It supports all popular multimedia formats. Player is optimized for quick launch and minimum load of the system resources. The main feature - it is very easy in use but at the same time has lots of configuration settings. Like fast video rewind, load subtitles, make bookmarks in the list or on the timeline, preview window on timeline, select audio tracks and subtitles in multilingual films, minimize to tray, infrared remote control (WinLIRC), make screenshots. The brightness/contrast/saturation of the image van be adjust, it supports multimedia keyboards and has full support for DVD/Blu-ray and MKV/OGM/MP4 features.

Light Alloy features:

Built-in video/audio codecs (but still can be configured to use system codecs), as well as custom codecs for the selected video formats, has full support for subtitles (with the ability to specify the time shift if the subtitles are behind or ahead); has minimal start time;
Full support for DVD/Blu-ray and MKV/OGM/MP4 features.
Support for WinLIRC to control the player remotely..
Configurable playback speed from 0.1x slow to 32x fast, frame by frame playback, adjustable rewind.
Volume control, timeline display on the control panel.
Additional audio features: sound amplification, normalization, audio shift.
Unrestricted display size with or w/o aspect ratio alignment.
Audio and video filters configuration.
Supports playlists with the possibility of placing bookmarks in the playlist or on timeline; can be configured to display or hide the duration, can generate a table from the playlist (for movie collectors), save/load a playlist, get screenshots from the video (including the DVD).
Drag-n-drop support; saving playing position on player close (to resume later).
Show detailed info about playing file, copy to clipboard any fields of data or all the info at once.
Rich reconfigurable mouse keys and keyboard, functional pop-up menu.
Easy to use media-oriented "add files" dialogue.
Video settings can be saved per file (brightness, contrast, saturation, sound volume level, the currently loaded subtitle, the currently selected audio track) that are reapplied next time the file is opened.
Ability to specify a folder to save screenshots, for creating thumbnails and full-size screenshots from the movie.
Timeline preview function, like on YouTube, with possibility to change preview window size.

What's new in this version:

Added support for network playlists that give data pieces (requires LAV Filters)
New skin: Ei8ht (author: Gilorn)
New skin: WMP R.I.P. (author: Ham)
Updates to skin-system:
1) added possibility of aligning elements at the center;
2) parameter <skin> should now contain these attributes: minSize = "x,y" and type = "standart|audio|fullscreen";
3) added support for a bit transparency of sliders for volume and timeline;
4) removed the width restriction of the volume slider and timeline (be careful with a width of more than 24 pixels);
5) added a new button with fixation of the "Forward/countdown playback time" (link="Position.Switch");
6) controls "text string" and "graphic text string" can now have an attribute link="", which allows them to perform the function by pressing the LMB;
7) forward/countdown playback time needs a left-click instead of right;
8) to switch the forward/countdown playback time, the font should contain a "-" instead of "
9) added support for a bit transparency of the notches and bookmark marks on the timeline;
10) added link-commands: PList.Manager (list manager), Subtitles.Switch2 (second subtitles switching), Subtitles.SizeUp (increase the size of the subtitle), Subtitles.SizeDown (reduce the size of the subtitles);
11) added ability to change vertical position of digits and ticks on timeline (digits_ypos and ticks_ypos attributes for );
12) added custom bookmark marks on timeline (attribute chapter), with customizable position (attribute chapter_pos="x,y");
13) added ability to determine the points to stretch a border (attributes bgsplit_lt="x,y" and bgsplit_rb="x,y").
Popup->Sound: added possibility to select the audio device.
Popup->Playlist->Misc: added option *Skip this file*.
Playlist: added possibility to select all items in the list with a hotkey (default: Ctrl+A)
Thumbnails: added *Don't show thumbnails options dialog* option
Options->Playlist->Misc: added option *Don't play file if you double-click it in Explorer*.
Instead of "index.bdmv" in player caption, folder name will be shown which is more descriptive.
Redrawn main icon of the player and the tray icon, adding more sizes.
Removed support for Vimeo.
iBloko, SlimStripe and AudioAmp skins were removed from default package. You always can download them on Light Alloy forums in Skins section.
Options->File Types: fixed inability to remove Light Alloy items from the Explorer context menu for directories.
Various bug fixes related to Unicode support.
Open URL: fixed Youtube parser.
Playlist: fixed bookmark deselection when you right-click the bookmark.
Playlist: fixed incorrect mass selection with the Shift key.
Fixed minor bugs.

Video Engine:

Added support for MIDI playback. (Note: the sound bank in WindowsSystem32 should be named "28MBGM.SF2"; while the sound bank itself can be anything, it is necessary that it has this name)
Built-in support for WavPack.
Native support for OPUS.
Video decoder: added support for playback of H.264-video with impaired B-Frames sequence.
Video decoder: updated list of supported VP5/VP6 (nVidia) video cards, updated information about the Intel Haswell video adapters.
Video decoder: improved mechanisms for determining the wrong order of B-Frames.
MKV: added support for CueDuration and CueRelativePosition tags when rewinding to read subtitles.
MKV: improved compatibility with Lentoid HEVC Decoder.
MPEG: added support for streaming (downloaded at the moment) files, duration of such files will be updated as download new data, without the need to restart the player.
MPEG: added the ability to switch programs in MPEG-TS.
MPEG: improved support for some AAC-tracks.
AVI: added support for H.264 streams with "AVC1" and "h264" FourCC.
FLAC: added support for ID3 v2 tags (images only).
MP4: added support for fragmented DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) files, distributed on Youtube.
MP4: added support for A/V-delays set inside the container.
MP4: added support for HEVC-videos created by ffmpeg encoder.
MP3: added support for multi-layer .MP3 (in which the data with different parameters are stored, this is important for online broadcasts for example).
MP3: improved header search (allows you to play files containing garbage/incorrect data at the beginning of the file).
Added added support for 12-channel sound with unspecified channel location.
Subtitles: improved subtitle processing, multiple optimization and speed up the loading/rendering of subtitles.
Subtitles: added support for animated VobSub-subtitles.
MP4: file loading optimizations
Audio decoder: Bitstream option is no longer available for Windows XP users.
WASAPI: improved verification of supported formats.
Subtitles: optimizing of read/positioning/handling text files.
Updated codecs.
Video decoder: fixed crash with DXVA 2.0 mode on some files.
Video decoder: fixed crash on WMV3Image/VC1Image
Audio decoder: fixed memory leak when using the option "Encode to AC-3".
Audio decoder: fixes in the handling of situations when the exhibited SPDIF/Bitstream mode is not supported.
Subtitles: fixed crash.
Subtitles: fixed handling of "fs +" and "fs-" tags.
WASAPI: fixed crash when outputting multiple audio streams at once.
APE: some files could not be played.
MP4: fixed calculation of FPS.
MP4: fixed rewinding on some files.
MP4: fixed crash on some files because of the division by 0.
MP4: fixed handling VobSub-subtitle.
MP4: fixed playback of some .MOV with PCM-track.
MKV: player dropped on some files.
MKV: fixed playback of some H.264 interlaced-video.
FLV: ignore incorrect FPS values (corrects twitching pictures).
MPEG: fixed processing of AC3-data on TrueHD stream.
MPEG: H.264 MVC/Stereo profile was not processed correctly.
MPEG: fixes in the processing and determination of audio tracks.
MPEG: fixed playback of some MPEG-TS files.
MPEG: name for DVB-subtitles sometimes could not be displayed.
MPEG Audio: fixed work with some Internet radio sources.
MP3: fixed crash when reading ID3v2-tag.
DTS: fixed crash when rewinding at large (greater than 2GB) files.
RAW: fixed playback of some H264-files.
DVD: fixed crash when using BOB-deinterlace.
DVD: fixed crash when using ELA-deinterlace.
DVD: fixed hang on pause (happened rarely, and only on DVD with animated menus).
Fixed player crash and artifacts when using ffdshow raw decoder.
Fixed green screen in conjunction with ffdshow.