Light Alloy is a tiny and powerful alternative to the default multimedia player that comes with Windows - Windows Media Player.
Play AVI, DIVX, DVD, MP3, ASF, WAV and other multimedia formats with ease. Very light on resources and memory.
You can also download Light Alloy Portable.
Here are some key features of "Light Alloy":
- Highly optimised visual interface for speed and usability
- Support almost all multimedia formats: AVI, DivX, MP3
- DVD Support (only with MPEG-2 decoder installed)
- Ability to take screenshots of movie
- Ultimate video control: Zoom, aspect ratio, brightness, contrast, sharpness
- Playback speed control
- Windowed and fullscreen playback with custom resolutions
- Ability to play broken AVI files (or partially downloaded)
- Automatic detection of the codec needed
- Customizable keyboard and mouse actions
- AVISynth filters support
- Playlist with bookmarks
- Multilingual interface: English, French, German and other languages included.
- Subtitles support: *.SUB,*.SRT,*.SSA
- Ultimate subtitles control: position, font, color, transparency, background
- Useful OSD(On-Screen-Display) information
- Skinnable: many skins to download from site.
- Multi-audio media support
- External audio tracks
- WinAMP general plugins support
- Seamless joins splitted video
- Multimedia and system-wide keys support
- Infrared Remotes support: (WinLIRC)
- Drag-and-drop support
- Commandline parameters support
- Context menu quick media information
- Optional sound stream resampling
What's New in This Release:
- 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.