Light Alloy is a media player alternative to Windows Media but with many extra features. Play video and audio files on low memory consumption and very light on system resources. With the program users can visualize AVI, DVD, DivX, MP3, WMA, WMV and other multimedia formats.
It has a friendly user interface, and one of its features which makes it a better alternative to Windows Media Player is that it can take screenshots of the videos being played (they are automatically saved to the My Documents folder).
Light Alloy has multiple video controls like zoom, aspect ratio, brightness, contrast, and sharpness. It can play partially downloaded or broken video files, and also detects automatically codecs if needed.
The program also allows users to set custom video resolutions and customize keyboard and mouse actions. Additionally the program is capable to resume videos where left playing thanks to marker saving. It supports subtitles, different fonts, color, transparency, and background.
New additions include 3gp video support, Winamp general plugins support, user interface changes, Win 7 support and playback speed control. Nice alternative, try it and find this and many other features.
v4.10.2 [Mar 1, 2008]
Support for changing window size by Win key + directional keys.
If you need to play a file with unknown extension, but you don't want to change a setting that allows it globally for all files, now you can easily drag'n'drop such file (but only one!) and player will try to play it.
Playlist's the "+" button popup menu: added "Add files with only known extensions" option to be quickly accessed without need to go into Preferences->Playlist.
Display in player caption current scheduler power off time, if any.
Added hidden setting: Core.HighPriority (allows you to set High Priority for Light Alloy process)
Added hidden setting: OnDone.UnLoadLastFile (allows you to always unload last, or just alone, played file in playlist instead of default action - displaying last frame)
Do not try to play anything if add/dragndrop to playlist/videopanel is failed (for example, in case of broken CUE playlist is given)
Extended Open Dialog:
+ ability to open favorites by hotkey Ctrl+F.
+ favorites: highlight item in list if you already in this folder.
+ favorites: enumerate list.
+ favorites: ability to quickly open item in favorites list by 1-9 keys on keyboard.
= optimized Add Folder
- favorites: fixed issue with Enter hotkey on selected item (produced file playback instead of just Go to Favorite folder)
- fixed some issues with navigation (for example, the "View->Appearance: corrected title/description for "Add chapters from files on timeline and to playlist as bookmarks" option, and option below it also got corrected title.
Preferences->View->Appearance: "Add chapters from files on timeline and to playlist as bookmarks" didn't worked correctly - it suppose to hide marks on timeline if disabled, but it didn't.
Preferences->Events: an option "on playback end - switch to windowed mode" worked incorrectly.
Preferences->File Types: fixed issues in association process under Windows 10.
Player appeared on taskbar in some cases, even if "only in tray" is set.
Next OSD after Info Line OSD wasn't erased correctly for MadVR
Player windowed size/position wasn't remembered in all cases, especially in cases like when "On Start - Switch to Fullscreen" was set.
Fixed crash with malformed CUE playlist.
Fixed a few issues with remembering panels state modes.
Fixed a few issues with On Top and child forms.
Fixed a few issues with maximized window state.
Fixed issues with window position when it became behind taskbar (if it was at top or at left) when hotkeys Alt+3/4 (Scale Change) were used
A few cosmetic fixes.
Free demo player supporting all bit rates, For Windows 9x, NT, ME, 2000 and XP
