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.
v4.8.8 [Aug 19, 2014]
Frontend:
- Decreased playlist's splitter width.
- Player no more unload file when its done, if there is nothing to do next.
- Fixed a few player crashes when working in restricted environment (no administrator rights, for example).
- Double click on player's caption to maximize player didn't work.
- Fixed slowdowns in audio mode when switching from fullscreen to windowed mode in case of visible OSD.
Video Engine:
- MPEG: improved seek for MPEG-TS H.264.
- WASAPI: added ability, in case of using "bit-exact output", to query a list of supported formats immediately without querying the device, and to attempt to create output format exact as input format. This is useful for sound devices which support only a restricted range of support output/input formats.
- MKV: load embedded fonts even if subtitles were not available.
- MPEG: optimized Blu-ray loading.
- Screenshot creation routines were optimized.
- Updated codecs.
- MKV: fixed slow seek on some files.
- WASAPI: fixed stuttering and distortion when changing input format.
- OGG: fixed Theora header parsing.
