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.

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:

UI:
· Internet Radio Browser. Can be seen in Context Menu->Open->.., or via hotkey Ctrl+H.
· Preferences->Video: ‘Screenshots’ tab.
· Context menu: optimizations in *Play Disc* feature.
· Recent List Manager: some enhancements and a lot of fixes.
· M3U-playlist parser has been fully rewritten.
· A few fixes and enhancements in unicode support.
· Optimizations to drag-n-drop on Light Alloy window when a lot of files(~1000 and up) is selected.
· Fixes in PLS-playlists parser.
· Fixed that M3U8 cannot be loaded.
· Other fixes to issues that was found in Beta-2.

Video Engine:
· VSFilter: added support for float values in \fscx and \fscy tags
· FLV: enhanced support for streaming.
· MP4: added support for chapters that was made in HandBrake application.
· MPEG: added ‘fast seek’ option. This option can be in use in 99% cases, but its disabled by default because with this option enabled a seek can be wrong for some files.
· OGG: allow connection to files with ‘OggS’ header only.
· WavPack: m…