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Light Alloy 4.8.8

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:

Frontend

  • Added popup menu support for Sound Mute/Stream Switch, Subtitles Show/Switch/Switch2 and Video Ratio Switch buttons, with most frequently used commands by default. Can be customized to the way you want in Preferences->Interface->PopupMenu.
  • Speed change popup menu: added speeds 2.2, 2.4, 2.6 and 2.8
  • Preferences->Video: if madVR not installed, then now instead of message where you can find it, immediatelly will be opened https://www.madvr.com/download/
  • Popup menu: if madVR not installed it will be displayed now but will be grayed.
    Fixed picture stall on seek.
  • *Read file signature to show duration* do not always work correctly.
  • Subtitles coping: а) if some subtitle was disabled it was copied anyway, but should not. б) the symbol \N now correctly converted to new line symbol.
  • Save media settings: sound boost and sound delay were not remembered correctly.
  • Fixed player crash on multiple files add via windows explorer context menu.
  • Playlist: new bookmark was not highlighted if playback was on pause.

Video Engine

  • Subtitles: added support for Italic and Bold Italic styles for font. Handy for those who like to watch subtitles with italic style, instead of bold as default. You can set it in "Subtitles preferences" (Shift+S) window.

Download page: Light Alloy 4.8.8 | ~60.0 MB (Freeware)
View: Light Alloy Website

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