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:
Frontend
- New skin: WebForm (author: Pavlik)
- File Information: bytes information to file size.
- Preferences->Filetypes: support for Windows 8 and above.
- Disable DXVA for Windows XP by default.
- Updated some internal components to latest versions.
- Audio properties: removed gain slider for equalizer.
- Removed subtitles explorer.
- Removed WinLIRC Agent.
- Recent Files List: under some circumstances the list could be empty.
- "Change parameters by wheel, if cursor on timeline or volume bar" did not worked correctly.
- Seek to last playing position did not worked for some DVDs.
- Subtitle were not shown fo some DVDs.
- Fixes to preferences upgrade mechanism.
- Fixed some minor issues.
Video Engine
- Video Decoder: greatly optimized decoding of HEVC-video.
- DXVA Decoder: enhancements in handling and displaying of frames at the end of the video.
- Updated codecs.
- MPEG: fixed audio stream detection in some MPEG-TS/MPEG-PS.
Download page: Light Alloy 4.8.4 | ~60.0 MB (Freeware)
View: Light Alloy Website
