Light Alloy Changelog

What's new in Light Alloy 4.11.2 Build 3340

May 5, 2021

List of changes in the update from 04/30/2021 version 4.11.2 build 3340:
Fixed OSD text unlinked from video (information about rewind, pause, technical information). Those. now this text is independent of the video format and quality.
Fixed display of information on GPU loading in the technical OSD text.
Fixed setting the maximum texture size for subtitles.
Fixed freeze when turning on the second subtitles when the video is paused.
Fixed changing subtitle options (did not work).
Fixed video rotation (turned over to the other side, ie not as indicated on the buttons).
Fixed video distortion when turning.
Fixed crash when switching from EVR CA to EVR.
Fixed dialogs of filter properties (names of properties were not displayed in dialogs).
Fixed playback of not downloaded files.
Fixed a bug where vertical video could be displayed as horizontal.
Fixed adding lists from * .m3u files.
Fixed loading of the catalog of radio stations (IceCast).
Fixed drag n drop adding files to the list.
Fixed problem with saving and transferring player settings.
Fixed player can now be installed in the standard Program Files folder.
Added new translations of Bulgarian and French and updated skins.

New in Light Alloy 4.11.1 Build 3333 (Dec 9, 2020)

New in Light Alloy 4.10.2 Build 3317 (May 21, 2017)

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)
Preferences->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.
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 "<" button wasn't working if navigation history was empty, now it just keep going backward through path)
fixed crash

New in Light Alloy 4.10.1 Build 3251 (May 13, 2017)

Frontend:
Now if you trying to delete from playlist currently playing file -- playback will be stopped. Previously, it was impossible to delete playing file until you manually stop it
Preferences->Interface->Appearance: remember panels state group of settings were rewritten, plus new options added. Hope now it makes more clear to use it for user.
Preferences->Interface->Appearance: tags for caption/playlist (actually - for caption, but playlist - as a side-effected) populated with 3 new tags - %R for playback rate, %Z for current zoom and %V for volume
Preferences->Interface->Playlist: added Custom Hint option.
Preferences->Keyboard: added "Add URL to playlist" command under "Playlist" section. (also in Playlist popup, "+"'s button popup menu, and File's sub-menu in general popup menu)
Preferences->Mouse: added option "Zoom point follow mouse cursor, instead of video picture center".
Preferences->Playlist: "When in the same folder multiple files of a series are found..." -- added an "On demand, in any place" and "On demand, in beginning or end of playlist".
Preferences->Playlist: added option "Do not show delete files dialog (F8)".
Preferences->OSD->Info Line: added 3 tags - {ZOOM}, {VOLUME} and {PLAYBACKSPEED}.
Internet Radio Stations List: automatically select in table current playing radio station.
Media Settings: now it remembers & applies speed playback value for current file.
"Audio language by default" and "Subtitle language by default" settings now respect order in which they written, also added arrow buttons to let you easily change audio/language order.
Auto Seek window (Alt+E): now it automatically enters the current playing time into the HH/MM/SS edit boxes. This is useful if you want to jump to an exact location, for example: press Alt+E, change the entered time and click on "Jump to".
Preferences: removed gradient for Languages/Skins sections, some other small UI refinements.
Preferences->Interface: removed "Hidden by default" option for Control Panel.
Preferences->OSD: OSD duration and OSD information line duration now can be configured separatedly.
History's filter category titles now populated from language files.
Reworked Caption Ticker: now ticker appears only when you mouse over on caption.
OSD Info Line now always can be shown manually (i.e. by pressing "I" hotkey).
Internet Radio Stations List window: highlight only that column which is sorted by right now. Seems pretty.
Internal Radio Stations List window: show default sorting in table header.
Make mouse cursor do not appear while in fullscreen and mouse time out is set to 0. Some people find it handy against accidental mouse move and cursor appear as result.
"Video options" (Shift+V) dialog: shaders now works for madVR too.
When you zooming picture in/out, picture position no more dropped back to center, except when you pass 100% zoom (which is handier for picture fixation).
A lot of small refinements to code, clean ups and micro optimizations.
Preferences->Events: fixed that two options in "on playback end" group were not working [4.10.0 regression]
Preferences->OSD->Info line: fixed delayed update of preview window with reflected changes.
Preferences->Keyboard: fixed several issues with hotkeys reassigning, also right click on cell now properly select this cell.
Preferences->Sound->Radio: "minimize player on radio start" option did not worked as expected.
Multiple fixes to Internet Radio Stations List window: 1. Fixed paint of fixed (header) row 2. Adjustments to header font size and sort arrow position. 3. Sorting by "#" wasn't working.
External Playlist: fixed that when file delete - internal playlist content and player caption was not updated, also fixed several other issues (delete file was broken, adding files were not displayed sometimes, and so on...)
Extended open dialog: fixed flickering.
Speed play button: different reaction when you click it via mouse or using hotkey.
File History: fixed bug with "Played" column (sometimes displayed particular time instead of % summary), and now Size column display size in gigabytes too.
Skin System: positioning window by center was performed incorrectly if skin's minimal size was higher than default size.
Fixed crash that happened from time to time when you close player.
Fixed crash when trying to play some radio stations.
Fixes and stabilizations to playlist duration refresher component, sometimes it could crash player due to simultaneous access to MediaInfo component.
Fixed issue with playlist duration refresher when duration was not updated in playlist for some files.
Playback status and player controls on taskbar were not working for some Windows 10 users.
Fixed that some YouTube-links were not working.
When using some options it was impossible to return from fullscreen mode to windowed.
ASX playlists loading was broken.
Fixed crash that can happen on player exit, when in radio mode and playlist was empty.
"Show file location" (Ctrl+F) didn't worked correctly when playlist was closed & no file was playing.
Fixed issues with energy saving mode when monitor was suddenly turned off while playing.
Fixed issues with cover scaling in audio mode.
Disabled Aero detection mechanism for Windows 7 was broken, as result it produced some unexpected visual glitches when you go out from fullscreen. [4.10.0 regression]
Fixed incorrect hint for Scheduler button. [4.10.0 regression]
Some other less noticeable fixes and changes.
Video Engine:
Enhancements to file change notification system for subtitles: now it can watch for multiple subtitles, plus a few issues were fixed.
Codecs compiled with newest GCC 7.1.0
Shaders were broken [4.10.0 regression]
Fixed OSD premature disappearing.
Install System:
Installer: from now default install path is C:<User>AppDataLocalLightAlloy, instead of "Program Files (x86)". But if Light Alloy is already installed, the installer will use the existing path as default install path.

New in Light Alloy 4.10.0 Build 2945 (Apr 24, 2017)

Frontend:
This is the latest major version of Light Alloy with new features, as it goes to support-mode only, since it's been superseded by Verona Player (https://verona.im). Only hotfix-releases will follow.
Completely new YouTube parser.
Internet radio: support for HLS-streams.
Encoding support has been completelly rewritten, now player supports fine whole range of encondings i.e. ANSI/UTF-8 w/o BOM/UTF-16 BE/LE w/o BOM. Playlist module and Internet Radio Stations list catalog is getting most benefits from this enhancement.
Ability to query file's duration in background. Need to "Read file hash on add" enabled in Preferences->Playlist->Misc, because operation can be time consuming if your HDD is slow.
Added ability to customize playlist's hint. It's a hidden setting, so you have to enable it manually in LA.xml - see CustomHint tag, set Enabled to 1. "Template" property supports LA tags (like {TITLE}) that you can see in Information Line (Preferences->OSD), and html tags (b, u, s, i, hr, br)
Playlist popup menu: sort item is now an sort sub-menu with few actions (like sorting by title/filename/filepath...).
Large Address Awareness for filters (like SVP) that require more than 2GB memory to use in 32-bit application
Delete Files dialog: "do not show" option.
Added Portuguese Brazilian translation by Ricardo Vaidergorn.
Revamped Spanish translation by David Vaquer
Updated official web-site URL and official support email to https://verona.im
Major code refactoring, optimizations. Some preparations for release Light Alloy as open source.
BASS libraries updated to v2.4.12 and plugins to actual versions.
Removed VMR-7/9/EVR-Sync renderers and relevant options.
About box: sending feedback process has been rewritten (now it supports SSL)
Audio mode: player window now is maximized, instead of going to fullscreen.
LAP format: cache the size of file if we already got it somewhere (allows to optimize work of some operations).
Playlist, Update Checker: added support for SSL.
Playlist: enhanced behaviour of "Auto search and add files of a series to playlist" -> "If necessary" mode.
Preferences: some sections and categories were updated to make access to their settings cleaner and more obvious.
Preferences: icons were updated, some clean up and optimizations
Preferences->Events: "on player start" group of options has been remade technically, now they function more optimally and less buggy when multimonitor configuration in use.
Preferences->Events: "use monitor energy saving" is now hidden, enabled by default.
Preferences->Video->Misc: available qualities in youtube dropdown reduced to only 4 officially supported.
Skin system: rewritten Caption module, now it automatically makes text fit into player's width and considering buttons, if text not fit it will tickered automatically.
Scheduler: internal overhaul, drop some unneeded power off modes, misc fixes to existing ones.
Fixed file info bug with {TITLE} tag when file title tag contains dotten text (like "123. qwe.mkv")
Playlist: Folders Mode - fixed colors / font size reloading when switching between video / audio modes.
Playlist: fixed paint issues.
Playlist: after playlist clear, the hint was not erased properly.
Playlist: fixed selection issue when Shift+Up/Down keys used.
Scheduler state wasn't respected when autoseek or "playlist repeat" was in use.
Video properties: fixed issue with picture box drawing on second monitor.
Preferences->Interface->Popup Menus: fixed several issues in popup menu customization functionality.
Preferences->System: fixed option "on taskbar; minimize to tray"
Preferences->Mouse: "show cursor if panels are visible" was not working correctly.
Fixed bug with Preferences Upgrade feature that caused inability to start the player if LA.xml was initially broken.
"About Light Alloy" popup window - fixed that some skins cannot be selected.
Fixed crash with media settings/cache clear.
Radio stations dialog cannot be shown when external playlist enabled
Skin System: fixed preview window border.
Skin System: fixed incorrect "align" attribute handling for Caption.
Fixed memory leaks in sections: Preferences->File types, player second copy detection system, and some others.
Fixed issues with monitor power save mode.
Shutdown dialog: the "cancel" button was broken.
Fixed visual artifacts after exit from fullscreen mode, when "Classic Windows style" is used.
Fixed player hang when you watch video on additional monitor and you decided to unplug this monitor.
Fixed some issues with "apply media settings" option to subtitles.
Misc fixes and some enhancements to Internet Radio Stations List window.
Video Engine:
New file change notification system for subtitles, now player reload changed loaded external subtitle file immediatelly.
Renderers (EVR CA): support for Rotation tag that used in some media files which signals about video file that has been recorded upside down.
Screenshots: support for Rotation.
Updated projects and some source files to be compatible with GCC 6.3.0 (previous version were compiled with pretty old 4.9.1)
Significant OSD paint optimizations to reduce video picture micro-stutterings on high-fps video.
Optimized saving screenshots when PNG format in use.
Do not display File Name in Debug OSD (Q) when watching media URL (youtube, for example).
Removed VMR-7/9/EVR-Sync renderers and relevant options.
Renderers (EVR-CA): no more depending on DirectX Redist June 2010 installed until you trying to use Shaders in video options (Shift+V) or display Frame statistic (Ctrl+Q).
VSFilter: fixed crash.
MKV: fixed calculation of TimeStamp for subtitles.
Fixed crash on some DVDs.
Currently active button in DVD menu was not repaint correctly on some DVDs.
Fixed some memory leaks.
Fixed possible crash wih subtitles when you move player window to second monitor while playback is active.
Normal playback speed (x1.0) was not restore on change by keyboard or mouse.
Low Merit internal filters were broken.
Videos with rotated picture were not scaled properly.
Install System:
Installer/Deinstaller now remember where Light Alloy was installed (useful when upgrade)
Installer/Deinstaller now shows correct version of install system.
ZIP compression algoritm replaced with 7-Zip, it makes installer size smaller on about 30%, but increases installation time.
Installer: Improved perfomance. Now extract files directly from itself, without previously unpacking the archive to disk.
Deinstaller: Fixed showing icon in "Add or Remove programs" window tool.
Installer: Now Light Alloy will be automatically closed before install.
Installer: Fixed actions that processes even if cancel action was perfomed.

New in Light Alloy 4.10.0 Build 2929 Beta 2 (Apr 23, 2017)

New in Light Alloy 4.9.3 Build 2538 (Feb 19, 2017)

New in Light Alloy 4.9.2 Build 2516 (Feb 14, 2017)

Added proper support for restoring modal windows (examples: radio stations list, media-oriented open dialog) from minimized state to visible state and bring them to front, when using player with "only in tray" mode (but I suppose it will be valid even for "in taskbar too" case)
Preferences->Mouse: added ability to show / hide control panel for Left Button Double Click action.
Some cleanups and optimizations.
Rename "Rotate video by Z" to "Rotate video vertically"
Set default hotkey for "Rotate video by vertically" to Z.
Media-oriented open dialog: Slightly changed behaviour of "Add Selected" button - now it start play a selected file if Close After Add is checked & no any file is playing at the moment, in any other cases - it just add file to playlist without begin playing it.
Media-oriented open dialog: 'Add files, but dont replace the ones that are already in playlist' option is removed.
Removed check that prohibited to run Light Alloy on XP/Vista. You can use it, but XP/Vista obviously not supported anymore, so any crashes on these OSes are not gonna be fixed.
Radio stations list: entirely rewritten approach to decode html entities. Now it shouldn't crash player anymore on some lonely symbols (like "&"), also now it can handle much more symbols that can be seen in some song titles (like a quote symbol, or (c) or (r), and much more).
Optimized OSD when in over-video mode.
Preferences->Events, Video: simplified monitors listing.
Playlist: the ">L" marker (last played file) was ignored for LAP playlists that you try to load into player, if there is already loaded some playlist (default LA.lap, for example).
History: fixed few UTF8-related issues.
Delete file from playlist: was not working for multiple selected files in playlist.
Preferences->Mouse->Wheel: Subtitle delay option was broken.
Preferences->Keyboard: next chapter command was hidden in Navigation section.
Fixed problem when suddenly video picture has been rotated on 90 degrees on player reload.
Fixed issue when player cross monitor workarea dimensions on video file open and on scale change (from 50% to 100%, for example)
Audio mode: when entering fullscreen, playlist width wasn't audio-like.
Media-oriented open dialog: "Add selected" was broken when multiple files were selected.
Media-oriented open dialog: "Play file on doubleclick, otherwise just add to playlist" - latter action was broken.
Media-oriented open dialog: "Current folder with subfolders" wasn't working as expected
Fixed other less noticeable issues.

New in Light Alloy 4.9.1 Build 2416 (Jan 15, 2017)

New in Light Alloy 4.9.0 Build 2318 (Dec 26, 2016)

Frontend:
New official skin: Omega
Completely new, fast XML parser. Should fix occasional issues when user settings are lost for no reason
Completely new YouTube parser
Video Properties: added ability to rotate picture the way you want by 90 degree, instead of limited "Flip Vertically" option
Radio stations list: support for decoding html entities in station name / current song
Open URL window: setting to monitor clipboard for web links
Automatically load jpg/png/bmp cover for audio files if both names are same
New language files: Hongkongese, Belarussian, Spanish
Preferences: removed WinLIRC section. Hope to replace it with ability to control player via smartphone, in some future
Preferences->Playlist: updated default colors for "always the same" option
Preferences->Video: added hints for Renderer and Monitor
Preferences->System: removed "High priority" option due to being rudiment nowadays
Popup menu->Open Disk: section simplified, should eliminate problems with long popup menu opening while quering removable disc. Now it just shows drive letters from E to Z (if available) with corresponding volume label
About box: removed donation page, removed captcha, removed subject field
Some file loading optimizations
Some player startup optimizations
Upgrade from Delphi 2007 to Delphi XE 10.1, which leaded to major internal refactoring. Can cause some regressions as result, so report bugs please if any
Media cache increased from 128 to 256 files
Removed support for Windows XP and Windows Vista
Changed OpenSSL dlls to v1.0.2j
Languages updated: Dutch, English, Polish, Russian, Turkish, German, Korean, Czech, Hungarian, Japanese, Ukrainian, Italian, Chinese, French, Slovak
Fixed some crashes when player is running under guest account
Fixed issue that player did not switched to last selected external subtitle
Fixed visual glitch on timeline when using autoseek
Audio Mode: fixed playlist repaint-over-videopanel glitch when non-standard sized borders are used
Audio Mode: fixed OSD wasn't respecting playlist when aligning by center
Fixed screenshot filename were broken, if movie filename contained something like "01. My Movie.avi", and "use title from tags" was enabled for screenshots, as result screenshot file name were incomplete (i.e. "01_[timestamp].jpg") so "My Movie" part was lost
Fixed thumbnails & full-size screenshots could not be created if filename and/or title tag contains an invalid character, such as a slash
LA-Renderer registry key was created even if LA was in portable mode
Playlist Manager: fixed inproper way to stop media when creating new playlist, so fixed video panel glitches
Playlist: Jump To File menu was broken, also adjusted layout to use playlist colors
Playlist: fixed that files (with relative path) not added from M3U playlist if they were not available at the moment of adding
Playlist: fixed playlist repaint issue for unavailable files that happened on player start and opened playlist
Playlist: fixed Shift+LeftClick selection issue in playlist
Skins: fixed blue color blinking on time and pos/dur elements
Skins: fixed crash on malformed skins file
Skins: fixed deadlock in font subsystem
Skins: player did not respect skin's minimum width/height when switching to one that has higher minimum dimensions than previous one
Preferences->Interface: crash on malformed skin archives
Preferences->Playlist: bookmark colors were not saved when "always the same" option is used
Preferences->File Association: fixed file association issues under Windows 10
Preferences->File Association: fixed extensions list drawing issue under Windows 10
Preferences->File Association: fixed strange player behaviour when no icons in Icons folder
Video Engine:
Fixed rare crash with subtitles & external network HDD

New in Light Alloy 4.9.0 Build 2274 RC (Dec 24, 2016)

New in Light Alloy 4.8.8.2 Build 2038 (Feb 5, 2015)

New in Light Alloy 4.8.8.1 Build 2017 (Jan 23, 2015)

New in Light Alloy 4.8.8 Build 1982 (Dec 27, 2014)

New in Light Alloy 4.8.7.1 Build 1937 (Dec 2, 2014)

Frontend:
Preferences->Keyboard: added *Copy current subtitle to clipboard* command.
Preferences->GlobalKeys: ability to customize multimedia keys.
Preferences->System: option to check for updates. (enabled by default)
About Light Alloy window (a button with questionmark): check for updates button (for those who wont to check for updates on player start)
Playlist Report: added %VideoDuration% tag.
Minor optimizations.
Playlist now saves its width by default in fullscreen (earlier you have to check an option for this feature).
Preferences auto-upgrade now requires >= 4.8.7 instead of >= 4.7.8 (so if you upgrade from, lets say, v4.8.5 your settings will be dropped to default ones)
Preferences->Playlist->Misc: removed option *remember state (opened/closed)*, now its remembered by default.
Preferences->Video->Screenshots: *Overlay info OSD* and *Display subtitles* now can be used independenly.
Reverse playtime was broken.
Window border was disappear on window maximization.
Fixed issue with second mode for remember panels state.
Live Preview on timeline was broken if you use middle mouse button.
Fixed player crash with search field in playlist.
Fixed player hang after you delete playing file.
Fixed adding similar files to playlist.
Fixed other minor issues.
Fixed playlist report feature.
On DVD option *switch to fullscreen* sometimes did not worked as intended, when specified option was set.
On DVD the *play/pause* button did not worked as intended.
Video Engine:
Support for two subtitles on screenshots (previosly only one subtitle was displayed).
HEVC: support for crop/fps.
MPEG: support for HEVC in MPEG-PS.
MP4: enhanced seek by keyframe.
Codecs updated.
Enhanced seek forward by subtitles (it works only for text subtitles, more or less; limited support for other types of subtitles).
AVI: on some H264/HEVC/MPEG2-streams fps were not set properly.
FLV: corrected fps calculations; for HEVC-videos fps were not set properly.
MP4: fixes to A/V sync on some files.
DVD: transition between menu scenes were not working for some DVDs.
Fixed player crash on interlaced and high-fps (50/60) videos with disabled DXVA color control which was seen on Radeon videocards.
Subtitles: fixed output of text subtitles on VMR-7 RL.
Fixed wrong subtitle line on screenshots.
Wrong time codes were generated for Screenshot Packs

New in Light Alloy 4.8.7 Build 1934 (Dec 1, 2014)

Frontend:
Preferences->Keyboard: added *Copy current subtitle to clipboard* command.
Preferences->GlobalKeys: ability to customize multimedia keys.
Preferences->System: option to check for updates. (enabled by default)
About Light Alloy window (a button with questionmark): check for updates button (for those who wont to check for updates on player start)
Playlist Report: added %VideoDuration% tag.
Minor optimizations.
Playlist now saves its width by default in fullscreen (earlier you have to check an option for this feature).
Preferences auto-upgrade now requires >= 4.8.7 instead of >= 4.7.8 (so if you upgrade from, lets say, v4.8.5 your settings will be dropped to default ones)
Preferences->Playlist->Misc: removed option *remember state (opened/closed)*, now its remembered by default.
Preferences->Video->Screenshots: *Overlay info OSD* and *Display subtitles* now can be used independenly.
Reverse playtime was broken.
Window border was disappear on window maximization.
Fixed issue with second mode for remember panels state.
Live Preview on timeline was broken if you use middle mouse button.
Fixed player crash with search field in playlist.
Fixed player hang after you delete playing file.
Fixed adding similar files to playlist.
Fixed other minor issues.
Fixed playlist report feature.
On DVD option *switch to fullscreen* sometimes did not worked as intended, when specified option was set.
On DVD the *play/pause* button did not worked as intended.
Video Engine:
Support for two subtitles on screenshots (previosly only one subtitle was displayed).
HEVC: support for crop/fps.
MPEG: support for HEVC in MPEG-PS.
MP4: enhanced seek by keyframe.
Codecs updated.
Enhanced seek forward by subtitles (it works only for text subtitles, more or less; limited support for other types of subtitles).
AVI: on some H264/HEVC/MPEG2-streams fps were not set properly.
FLV: corrected fps calculations; for HEVC-videos fps were not set properly.
MP4: fixes to A/V sync on some files.
DVD: transition between menu scenes were not working for some DVDs.
Fixed player crash on interlaced and high-fps (50/60) videos with disabled DXVA color control which was seen on Radeon videocards.
Subtitles: fixed output of text subtitles on VMR-7 RL.
Fixed wrong subtitle line on screenshots.
Wrong time codes were generated for Screenshot Packs

New in Light Alloy 4.8.6 Build 1830 (Nov 17, 2014)

Frontend:
French translation.
Preferences->Interface: control panel - *hidden by default*.
Preferences->Sound: ability to set soundfonts for MIDI.
Popup menu for *On top* button in Light Alloy caption bar.
Preferences->Sound: settings slightly reorganized.
Preferences->Video: *on top* - *always* renamed to *Manually*, i.e. with a button.
Playlist: trying to display title tags for web-links, even if title format options are disabled for playlist. Useful for IPTV.
Some optimizations.
Preferences->Sound: an option *load audio file with the same name* has no effect.
Playlist: title of some network playlists were not handled properly.
Playlist: some network playlists were unable to be added.
Media-oriented open dialog: did not worked navigation via Enter key.
In some cases playlists splitter were unavailable in fullscreen mode.
Fixed visua lbug with *on top* button in case of *Always* for *On top*.
Always* mode for *on top* sometimes was working incorrectly.
Fixed issue with flickering video piture if you in/out mouse to control panel in fullscreen mode.
Player could hang in some cases when you load another file if you already have loaded some file.
Fixed delayed frame repaint on preview window moving when original paint method is used.
Fixed other minor issues.
Video Engine:
Video decoder: DXVA support for AMD video cards with frame characteristics as - width lower than 2048 and height lower than 2304
WASAPI: rewritten and enhanced mechanism of packets handling, which is resulted in better A/V sync handling in misc situations (some heavy CPU load, for example)
WASAPI: added support for situation like when you disable sound output device, then sound will be transfered to device default sound device (and back, when original sound device is on again).
Updated list of 4K-supported videocards.
Updated OpenSSL libraries to 1.0.1j
Updated codecs.
BASS: updated WMA and FLAC plugins.
MPEG: enhanced MPEG-PS support, fixed some mis-detection cases.
WASAPI: optimized volume changing.
WASAPI: optimized Bitstream.
AVI, OGG, MP4: some files were unable to open.
MIDI: fixed displaying of current playing position.
WASAPI: fixed crash in case of zero-length data.
Subtitles: fixed issue with font scale on some files.
Some FLV were seek too slow.
Other less important issues.

New in Light Alloy 4.8.5 Build 1770 (Oct 15, 2014)

New in Light Alloy 4.8.4 Build 1735 (Sep 16, 2014)

New in Light Alloy 4.8.4 Build 1717 (Sep 15, 2014)

New in Light Alloy 4.8.3 Build 1640 (Sep 7, 2014)

New in Light Alloy 4.8.2 Build 1593 (Sep 3, 2014)

New in Light Alloy 4.8.1 Build 1552 (Aug 23, 2014)

New in Light Alloy 4.8.0 Build 1493 (Aug 18, 2014)

New in Light Alloy 4.7.8 Build 1196 (Mar 31, 2014)

Frontend:
Korean language
Turkish language
Added Sky Audio.
Hint popup where you can see current volume level when you mouse hover on volume slider.
Preferences->Events: added "Pause playback on focus lost, continue playback on focus return" (works only for video mode).
Preferences->Keyboard: search field.
Fixed player crash with activated AviSynth option in case if there is no avisynth-script files.
Preferences menu wont close on Esc key in all cases.
Preferences->OSD: cosmetics and ergonimics fixes.
External playlist were not working in case if player control panel was visible.
Fixed issue with panels auto-hide.
Fixed issue with external playlist + taskbar at top.
Preferences->Events: *Rewind to start* option was broken.
Fixed other less important issues.
Video Engine:
Video Decoder: DXVA support was rewritten and enhanced, fixed issues with video flickering, A/V desync issues, visual artifacts and so on.
Video Decoder: added decoding support for QuickTime 8BPS, rpza, VP7.
Video Decoder: added 4K-video DXVA decoding support for new nVidia video cards with VP5.
Subtitle parser/renderer was significantly rewritten. Performance has been greatly improved both for subtitle parsing and rendering (often 5 times faster or more).
WASAPI Audio Renderer: implemented A/V sync mechanism.
Built-in support for Wave64.
Built-in support for TTA.
MKV: support for Apple ProRes.
MKV: support for MJPEG.
MKV: support for Microsoft MPEG4 v3.
MKV: support for some rare types of uncompressed-video.
MP4: Vorbis support.
Video Decoder: VP9-video now decoded via ffmpeg.
MPEG: improved AC3/AAC parsing mechanism, seek optimizations and fixed some issues related to it.
Updated BASS audio components to latest versions.
Updated codecs, system components to latest versions.
Fixed player crash with some old nVidia video drivers.
Real Media: some files were parsed incorrectly.
MPEG: some HEVC-video were not detected properly.
MPEG: fixed FPS calculcation with some files.
MPEG: some IFO-files were not opened properly.
MKV: fixed v210-video decoding.
Subtitles: fixed DVB-subtitles output if video resolution were lower than subtitles resolution.
Subtitles: fixed some issues with DVD-subtitles rendering.
WASAPI Audio Renderer: fixed dead-locks issues and player hang.
Fixed other less important issues.

New in Light Alloy 4.7.7 Build 1041 (Jan 18, 2014)

New in Light Alloy 4.7.6 Build 799 (Dec 23, 2013)

New in Light Alloy 4.7.5 Build 702 (Dec 17, 2013)

New in Light Alloy 4.7.4 Build 370 (Nov 20, 2013)

Frontend:
Official skin for audio mode.
Autoseek feature now support reverse mode - "view areas" (in addition to "skip areas").
Preferences->Mouse: *Sliders* feature.
Preferences->Codecs: added HEVC/H.265.
Big updates in Russian/Ukrainian/Polish/Dutch help files.
Preferences->Video: re-made conditions when available one or another option when selected one or another renderer.
Completelly re-written algorithm for searching and load similar files.
Updated some built-in skins.
Fixed handling of ASX playlists.
*Delete broken/missing files from playlist* was not working well.
Fixed issue with scheduler when *repeat playlist* function was enabled.
Fixed other small issues that were not reported.
Video Engine:
Support to play RAW video streams (MPEG-1/2, H.264, VC-1).
Video Decoder: added experimental support for HEVC/H.265 (no DXVA decoding support yet, only software for now)
Video Decoder: added support for V9.
Video Decoder: added support for decoding CRAM (Microsoft Video 1) and AIC (Apple Intermediate Codec).
AVI: added support for DV-video with CDVC identifier.
FLV: support for HEVC/H.265 (only with Lentoid HEVC decoder).
MPEG: support for HEVC/H.265
MPEG: support for AC3 in .SFD (MPEG-PS) video files.
MPEG: support for Program Stream Map in MPEG-PS files.
MKV: support for HEVC/H.265.
MKV: support for VP9.
MP4: support for HEVC/H.265.
MP4: support for AIC.
RAW: added support for HEVC-streams.
Video Decoder: some changes in options dialog.
Updated codecs, mediainfo module, some system components to their latest versions.
Video Decoder: fixed H.264 streams playback in DXVA mode without timestamps.
Video Decoder: fixed MPEG-2 playback without timestamps.
Video Decoder: fixed artifacts on playback/seek with some H.264 videos in DXVA mode.
Video Decoder: fixed inverted picture when RGB32 color output in use.
Video Decoder: fixed crash on video stream switch in DXVA 1 mode.
WASAPI Audio Renderer: DirectSound-mode was removed; fixed some noises glitches and other misc fixes.
Fixed freeze issue while parsing AVC-headers (in MPEG-TS, for example).
DVD: fixed external audio loading.
DVD: fixed chapters information for current title.
DVD: fixed video angles.
Transparency for battery charger did not work properly.
Fixed *VMR-9 mixer mode* option.
Fixed sound pitch adjusting on misc playback rates.
TAK: some fixes.

New in Light Alloy 4.7.3 Build 52 (Sep 13, 2013)

New in Light Alloy 4.7.3 Build 31 Beta 2 (Sep 10, 2013)

New in Light Alloy 4.7.3 Build 1966 Beta 1 (Sep 5, 2013)

New in Light Alloy 4.7.2 Build 1924 (Aug 19, 2013)

New in Light Alloy 4.7.2 Build 1900 RC1 (Aug 17, 2013)

New in Light Alloy 4.7.2 Build 1876 Beta 3 (Aug 14, 2013)

New in Light Alloy 4.7.2 Build 1823 Beta 2 (Aug 14, 2013)

New in Light Alloy 4.7.2 Build 1771 Beta (Aug 14, 2013)

UI:
Light Alloy Guide in Dutch.
PK69.icl: added icons in 96px and 256px.
Ability to switch second subtitles by hotkey.
Preferences->System: access to hidden settings.
Preferences->Codecs: added *MKV: load embedded fonts*.
Support for overriding language files without need to edit default language file (for example, if you not okay with some language strings). Just create, lets say, english.txt.override in Langs folders, and add to this file changed variant of "Command.050=Open file" language string (add it as, lets say, "Command.050=Open video") and save it. Reload Light Alloy and see the result.
Context menu: Playlist->Misc: new option *Show hints for items in playlist*
Increased width of Preferences menu.
Clear playlist* function now works faster.
Drop the file extension fro folder name when you create a screenshot.
Some default hotkeys were changed.
Minize/maximize player: fixed restoring speed playback state.
Fixed some issues with unicode support.
Filters tree: sometimes there was false audio decoder, but actually it was different filter.
Sound options: now you can change "Volume balance" and "Sound boost" with hotkeys (left/down -- decrease, right/up -- increase), previously this order was reversed.
Live Preview: playback was resetted back to beginning, if you call Live Preview via middle mouse button.
Context menu: Playlist->Open file location - didn't work if file name contains commas.
Fixed player crash in some circumstances.
Playlist: in folders mode mouse wheel won't function.
Some other fixes and changes.
Video Engine:
UDP Reader for IPTV (allows udp multicast).
Audio Decoder, WASAPI Audio Renderer: support for data cache. Fixes stutterings and crackles due to influence produced by 3rd party software to CPU/HDD.
MKV: enhanced seeking for files which have keyframes located too rarely.
FLV: support for keyframes. Seek responsiveness enhanced a lot.
WavPack: support for iso.wv.
WASAPI Audio Renderer: enhanced behaviour on seeking.
Updated codecs and system components to their latest versions.
Thumbnails creation: fixed freeze.
Thumbnails creation: fixed some drawing issues.
Video Decoder: fixed some issues with H264 deconding in DXVA mode.
Video Decoder: fixed crash with MPEG2 DXVA in some circumstances
Video Decoder: fixed issue on seeking with VC-1 + Matroska.
WASAPI Audio Renderer: fixed noise sounds on stream change.
WASAPI Audio Renderer: fixed crash when your audio card doesn't support one or another format/mode.
WASAPI Audio Renderer: Shared-mode was broken.
AVI: fixed issue with H264-streams.
MP4: fixed displaying some non-english chapters.
MPEG: fixed no-sound situation when you switch from HDMV LPCM to HDMV LPCM, but with different parameters.
WavPack: some files were unable to play.
WavPack: fixed issue with pause on play beginning.
WavPack: fixed some no-sound situations after play-stop-play.
WavPack: fixed data skip on file open.
Subtitles: some issues when you open UTF-8 subtitles.
Subtitles: HDMV/PGS - fixed reading and storing pallete, so subtitles were displayed incorrectly sometimes.
Subtitles: freeze on USF-subtitles opening.
Subtitles: built-in VobSub-subtitles were not displayed.
Subtitles: when you set ssa/ass subtitles as second subtitles they were losing their style, if were built-in to mkv/mp4.
Subtitles: position subtitles relative to videoframe were not working for WL-renderers (VMR-7 WL, VMR-9 WL, EVR)
Subtitles: second subtitles were incorrectly mirrored to first subtitles.
Subtitles: style changing was broken for WL-renderers.
Subtitles: second subtitles were always displayed below on WL-renderers.
Some other minor fixes.

New in Light Alloy 4.7.1 Build 1640 (Jun 25, 2013)

Frontend:
Support for displaying two subtitles at once
Subtitles switching for internal DirectVobSub just like with custom allocators
Italian translation
Added Ukrainian translation of Light Alloy Guide
Added /onradio command line parameter - allow you to open player and immediately start radio on play
Video options: added processing filters (shaders)
Video options: added "flip vertically" checkbox
Subtitles options: added *Allow subtitles overlapping* and *Align font by left border*
File information: show image cover embedded in file (supported images: png, jpg, bmp)
Added Ctrl+Shift+U hotkey, allows to activate clipboard monitoring for web-links (useful for YouTube, for example)
Ctrl+Shift+L - unchangeable hotkey for quick language file reloading (could be useful for translators)
Preferences->Interface: ability to customize some drop down menus
Preferences->Events: play next file in playlist
Preferences->Video->Screenshots: new options - *Use title from tags, instead of filename* and *show subtitles*
Preferences->DVD: option *Start playback automatically when proper disc found*
Enhancements in YouTube parser
On hint show with mouse icons, we take in account current mouse buttons configuration in Windows
Do not load multiple audio streams with same file name
Remember current audio boost
Updates in similar files search algorithm, when requested file already present somewhere in playlist
Battery charge levels for color identification can now be changed in LA.xml (LowLevel and HighLevel specifically). Useful when you, for example, want a battery turning to red color when it's at 15% charge, not 25% as it by default
When file unloaded Light Alloy did not reset window size back to original. (exception - fullscreen mode)
Similar files search: "heuristic + first 3 letters" was broken
Sometimes tooltips were overlapped
Fixed a few crashes with radio
Fixed a few memory leaks
Fixed rare player crash when trying to delete playing file
And other fixes:
Video Engine
Support for G2M (GoToMeeting) decoding
AVI: added support for MPEG1
AVI: added support for Matrox MPEG-2 (MMES)
MKV: added support for Opus
MKV: added support for ALAC
MPEG: support for TrueHD
MPEG: support for Blu-Ray with Seamless Branching (partial blu-rays)
OGG: enhancements in playback and seek in Theora video files
MPC: support for audio files with ID3-header in beginning
Audio Decoder: added support for DTS-HD, E-AC3 & TrueHD bitstreaming via HDMI
Wasapi Audio Renderer: fully rewritten
1) support for IEEE_FLOAT
2) ability to volume control in Shared Mode
3) support for Spdif/Bitstream
4) rewritten data parsing mechanism
5) fixed noises and crackles in Exclusive Mode
6) connection input/output info
7) added support for bit-exact audio output (only for WASAPI Exclusive mode)
8) added option *Use system channels mapping*
Video Decoder: support for VC1-I software decoding
Video Decoder: support for MPEG-1/2 software decoding
Video Decoder: support for v210 video codec
Video Decoder: support for VMware Video
Video Decoder: internal video decoder now support video stream switching on-the-fly, including DXVA
Video Decoder: read AR from stream setting - added third state. Also when you change it - it applies immediatelly
Video Decoder: 4K video decoding support for Intel HD Graphics 4000 and some Haswell
Video Decoder: enhancement support for H.264 Interlaced content
Video Decoder: enhancement support for VC-1 - were fixed jitters in DXVA-mode
EVR/VMR Renderers: statistics (Ctrl+Q) was rewritten, now it is scaleable
Shaders support
Enhancements in handling media files with bad/broken PTS-packets
Enhancements in support for WTV files
Enhancements in handling media fiels with bad PTS-packets
Files loading time was a bit decreased
Audio Decoder: enhancements in audio mixer
Audio Decoder: A/V sync (timestamp correction) is disabled when playing audio files and audio-only streams
AVI: reduced memory consumption
AVI: changed indexing strategy if the indexes are absent
AVI: enhancements in DivX-subtitles displaying
FLV: rewritten metadata parser
FLV: rewritten duration detection logic
OGG: enhanced support for Opus
MPEG: enhancement track seeking in MPEG-stream
MPEG: enhanced HDMV LPCM parsing, fixed sound corruption while seek
MPEG: skip broken packets, fixes crash on bad files
MP4/MOV: enhanced support for Apple MPEG2
MP4/MOV: enhancements in seeking on some crappy video files
MKV: enhanced seek and keyframe handling
MKV: better algorithm for calculating FPS, if value is incorrect
MKV: better support for WebM and incomplete/sliced files
OGG: enhanced seek on audio files
DTSAC3: rewritten WAV-files parser
Enhancements in DXVA-2 detection (for AcrSoft/Cyberlink decoders as example)
Audio switcher: sound normalization algorithm was rewritten
Some updates to MadVR support
Updated codecs, system components and MediaInfo module to their latest versions
Fixed player crash with ffdshow and enabled raw-video option
FLV: some files were unable to play
MPEG: incorrect playback with some files
MKV: fixed VC-1 + CyberLink Video Decoder support
RealMedia: fixed duration calculations
WavPack: fixed duration calculations in some cases
WavPack: player was unable to open multi-channel files
DTSAC3: fixed ac3/eac3/dts streams search
MP3 Audio: some files were unable to play
MP4: fixed false-positive chapters detection
MP4: fixed playback of some 3GP-files with AMR-sound
Audio Decoder: fixed channel mapping for some HDMV LPCM
Video Decoder: fixed DXVA-1 support
Video Decoder: fixed some issues with H.264 in AVI
Video Decoder: fixed some issues when play video on AMD Radeon videocards
Video Decoder: fixed artifacts in some WMV-files
EVR Renderers: Ignore invalid sample durations. Fixes a case where VSync breaks smooth playback
EVR Renderers: Restart worker threads when resetting the device
EVR Renderers: Fix high CPU and memory usage when switching the user account
EVR/VMR Renderer: fixed application hang when output device was unplugged
Subtitles: fixed player crash on DVB-subtitles when you switch to subtitle with higher resolution
Subtitles: fixed hangs on some VobSub-subtitles
Subtitles: SSA/ASS - fix outline background with \frx or \fry tags
Subtitles: fixed UTF-8 files detection without BOM marker
Subtitles: fixed disappering of subtitles when you resize player window while on pause
And other fixes

New in Light Alloy 4.7.1 Build 1630 RC3 (Jun 24, 2013)

New in Light Alloy 4.7.0 Build 1367 (Jun 24, 2013)

Frontend:
Light Alloy Guide in Russian by Gilorn (can be seen in About Light Alloy window, F1 hotkey).
Polish translation of Light Alloy Guide by Adam Malich.
Japanese translation by Tilt.
German translation by Axel05.
Chinese translation by lizw9382.
Romanian translation by marcelush.
Ability to watch online videos from Youtube directly in Light Alloy (Ctrl+U to show Open URL dialog).
Ability to watch online videos from Vimeo directly in Light Alloy. Preferred quality can be set in Preferences->Video->Misc.
Alternate mode for playlist has been added - its called Playlist Folders Mode, and can be activated with F11 hotkey, or press right mouse click on "Playlist" button on control panel.
Internet Radio Browser. Can be seen in Context Menu->Open->.., or via hotkey Ctrl+H.
Recent list manager. Available via right mouse click on "Play / Pause" button or Shift+H hotkey.
Support for tracker music (XM, IT, S3M, MOD, ...)
Popup menu: Open URL
Popup menu: Open DVD folder without DVD menu
Ability to make screenshots in WebP/WebP-LL formats.
Preferences->Mouse->Areas of Video: added new features for angular regions (left top/right top) - subtitles, sound on/off, next/prev in playlist.
Preferences->Playlist: *Check for broken/missing files* group box.
Preferences->Sound: ability to set output speakers configuration.
Preferences->Sound: "Radio" tab.
Preferences->Video: "Screenshots" tab.
Preferences->Keyboard: new commands has been added (like: Playlist size, Playlist's folders panel size, Rename file or bookmark)
Preferences->Keyboard->Alternative: ability to use alternative hotkeys mode on laptops without numeric keypad.
New options to autoseek/skipping feature.
"Speed change" button: added 16x option
To Playlist's *remove from playlist* button popup menu have been added *Clear playlist from broken/missing files*
Sound options: ability to save/load equalizer settings into files specified by user.
Ability to rename title/bookmarks in playlist.
When you open network/internet stream, bufferization progress will be shown.
Preferences->Mouse->Areas of Video: in *bottom* section, if you use normal seeking scheme, by holding "Shift" you can temporary activate by-frame seeking and vice-versa.
Preferences->Mouse->Areas of Video: in *bottom* section, if *By Frame* seeking scheme is used, double mouse clicks in left side of Area - will do frame seek backward, in right side - frame seek forward.
Support for networked M3U/PLS-playlists (shoutcast internet radio, for example).
Enhancements in M3U playlist support.
Pixel-to-Pixel aspect ratio (useful for lowres video, for example).
LA.xml (hidden options): a) Ability to set pair skin in "SkinDouble" variable and switch between them by right mouse clicking on Light Alloy's caption. b) Scheduler.Alarma.EveryHour="1" - *Big Ben* mode (every hour alarma) c) Nastr.LA_DoubleCopy - ability to run second copy of Light Alloy from another folder (in one instance LA_DoubleCopy should ="0", in second - ="1"). This could be useful for second instance of Light Alloy which will be used, for example, only for audio, thus can have some unique interface settings.
Playlist: function *remove file(s) from disk* have been fully revamped, and now support multiple files removing.
Preferences->Playlist: enhancements to *the accuracy of files search* function when used in *3 first symbols* mode.
Files extensions that used for autoseek/skipping feature have been changed from *.oe to *skip
Context menu: *Playlist* section was fully revamped.
Context menu: optimizations in *Play Disc* feature.
Optimizations to drag-n-drop on Light Alloy window when a lot of files(~1000 and up) is selected.
A few fixes to unicode support (hints module, file info window, popup menu, ...)
Playlist: Sometimes bookmarks icon wasn't drawn.
Autosearch-and-loading of multiple subtitles wasn't working correctly on VMR 7/9 WL and EVR renderers.
Seeking by bookmarks wasn't working well.
Add files to playlist* button wasn't working after playlist clean.
Fixed loading issue with online links that contains .m3u extension.
Fixed issues with .m3u8 extension.
Fixed OSD shift on skins with wide captions.
Scheduler: alarma have been worked incorrectly with external files.
Display wasn't able to go sleep mode on playlist end.
Preferences->Keyboard->Alternative: changes in modes wasn't saved.
Other fixes and changes.
Video Engine:
Added decoding support for: Opus, Jpeg 2000, Speex
Added support for 4K-video in DXVA mode for VP5-supported videocards (GeForce >= 6xx, some 4xx/5xx, newest Quadro/Tesla series)
Added support for internet radio (MP3/AAC/OGG/OGG-FLAC/OGG-OPUS/WMA is supported, with ability to record)
Experimental support for IPTV.
Added support for AVC Level 5.1 on Intel HD Graphics 2500
Added support for subtitles in VOB files.
Added partial H.264 Interlaced support with two fields in one frame.
Added support for VC-1 field interlaced decoding in DXVA mode.
Added support for XSub subtitles (DivX Subtitles) (works only with internal codecs at the moment)
MPEG2 DXVA decoder: support for videos with 2:3 Pulldown frames.
AVI: improved support for MP4-style H.264 in AVI
MP4/MOV: support for AMR Wide-band audio streams.
MP4/MOV: detection of Rotate meta-tag with following picture rotate.
MP4/MOV: added support for chapters that was made in HandBrake application.
MP4/MOV: support for Speex audio.
MP4/MOV: support for "3IVD" mediatype.
MP4/MOV: enhanced support for stream video.
MP4/MOV: support for Apple's MPEG2 specific videos (HDV 1-8 & XDV 1-9).
MKV: Enhancements in broken files support, some speed increases on bad files (with low key frames count, for example)
OGG: support for Speex audio.
OGG: support chained streams.
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.
FLV: streaming video (youtube or any other http source) - opening speed-up, determining file duration during playback.
MPA/OGG: support for stream audio.
Subtitles: support DVB subtitles for Windows-TV (WTV/DVR-MS)
Subtitles: enhancements in PGS/HDMV/DVB-subtitles support. Also, fixed issue when multiple subtitles wasn't able to be displayed.
Subtitles: added support for float values in \fscx and \fscy tags
Optimisations in audio decoder.
OGG: allow connection to files with "OggS" header only (header check).
WavPack: made a few checks to ensure that its a proper wavpack stream, so we won't try to decode all stream kinds that we got.
MPEG: enhancements to seeking feature with improper PTS table.
DTSAC3: enhancements in detection of AC3-streams.
MKV: increased packets count in queue - it necessary for, at least, proper display some HDMV/PGS subtitles.
More strict checks to videocard decoding capabilities for play H-264 in DXVA mode.
Subtitles: enhancements in subtitles queue.
Subtitles: enhancements in parsing/rendering mechanism of PGS/DVB subtitles.
Minor optimisations to LivePreview feature.
Updates in stereo-to-4.0/5.1/7.1 upmix coefficients.
Codecs were updated (ffmpeg git-c0a4871c, libopus 1.0.1 git-90bac9d1), MediaInfo module has been updated (MediaInfo svn-5351), and some other system components.
Some MPEG-TS files were cannot be opened.
OGG: unable to play files encoded by Sam Encoder (mostly internet radio sources).
Fixed a few hangs with online-sources (mostly internet radio).
Wasapi Audio Renderer: WASAPI Shared mode is not used now if sampling rates of the input and output streams differ
Fixed issues with WavPack 24/96 and 32/96 playback.
Fixed issues with data parsing about chapters from IFO-file when more than one Program Chains is available.
Fixes in DVD-subtitles parser/renderer (picture was black some times).
Audio switcher: fixed buffer overflow which produces stuttering and crackling on some audio files.
Subtitles: fixed some scaling and rotating issues.
Subtitles: subtitles wasn't displayed correctly if output was in YUY2 colorspace.
Subtitles: fix high RAM usage with some complex subtitles.
Subtitles: some times subtitles were displayed with doodle symbols, now it correctly handle ANSI vs UTF8 subtitles (without BOM).
Subtitles: player crash when PGS/DVB subtitles resolution was higher than video-stream resolution.
Subtitles: no subtitles were on anamorphic videos (like 1440x1080 with 16:9 ratio).
Subtitles: fixed player crash with improper RLE-data in HDMV/PGS subtitles.
DVD working incorrectly with VMR 7/9 WL or EVR.
Fixed freeze with madVR when switching to fullscreen with exclusive mode enabled.
FLAC: player crash on broken files, also some files was not played well.
RealVideo: fixed a/v out-of-sync with enabled multithreading.
AVI: player crash on files with broken data.
Other fixes.

New in Light Alloy 4.7.0 Build 1365 RC4 (Feb 19, 2013)

New in Light Alloy 4.7.0 Build 1332 RC3 (Feb 13, 2013)

New in Light Alloy 4.7.0 Build 1256 RC2 (Feb 1, 2013)

New in Light Alloy 4.7.0 Build 1226 RC1 (Jan 29, 2013)

New in Light Alloy 4.6.8 Build 970 Beta 3 (Dec 27, 2012)

New in Light Alloy 4.6.8 Build 911 Beta 2 (Dec 18, 2012)

New in Light Alloy 4.6.8 Build 856 Beta 1 (Dec 15, 2012)

UI:
Japanese translation (by Tilt)
Alternate mode for playlist has been added - its called Playlist Folders Mode, and can be activated with F11 hotkey, or press right mouse click on "Playlist" button on control panel.
Preferences->Mouse->Areas of Video: added new features for angular regions (left top/right top) - subtitles, sound on/off, next/prev in playlist.
Preferences->Playlist: *Check for broken/missing files* group box.
Preferences->Sound: ability to set output speakers configuration.
Preferences->Keyboard: new commands has been added (like: Playlist size, Playlist's folders panel size, Rename file or bookmark)
Preferences->Keyboard->Alternative: ability to use alternative hotkeys mode on laptops without numeric keypad.
New options to autoseek/skipping feature.
"Speed change" button: added 16x option
To Playlist's *remove from playlist* button popup menu have been added *Clear playlist from broken/missing files*
Sound options: ability to save/load equalizer settings into files specified by user.
Ability to rename bookmarks in playlist.
When you open network/internet stream, bufferization progress will be shown.
Preferences->Mouse->Areas of Video: in *bottom* section, if you use normal seeking scheme, by holding "Shift" you can temporary activate by-frame seeking and vice-versa.
Preferences->Mouse->Areas of Video: in *bottom* section, if *By Frame* seeking scheme is used, double mouse clicks in left side of Area - will do frame seek backward, in right side - frame seek forward.
LA.xml (hidden options): Ability to set pair skin in "SkinDouble" variable and switch between them by right mouse clicking on Light Alloy's caption / Scheduler.Alarma.EveryHour="1" - *Big Ben* mode (every hour alarma) / Nastr.LA_DoubleCopy - ability to run second copy of Light Alloy from another folder (in one instance LA_DoubleCopy should ="0", in second - ="1"). This could be useful for second instance of Light Alloy which will be used, for example, only for audio, thus can have some unique interface settings.
Playlist: function *remove file(s) from disk* have been fully revamped, and now support multiple files removing.
Preferences->Playlist: enhancements to *the accuracy of files search* function when used in *3 first symbols* mode.
Files extensions that used for autoseek/skipping feature have been changed from *.oe to *skip
A few fixes to unicode support (hints module, file info window, popup menu, ...)
Playlist: Sometimes bookmarks icon wasn't drawn.
Autosearch-and-loading of multiple subtitles wasn't working correctly on VMR 7/9 WL and EVR renderers.
Seeking by bookmarks wasn't working well.
Add files to playlist* button wasn't working after playlist clean.
Fixed OSD shift on skins with wide captions.
Scheduler: alarma have been worked incorrectly with external files.
Display wasn't able to go sleep mode on playlist end.
Preferences->Keyboard->Alternative: modes wasn't saved.
And ~20 other fixes and changes.
Video Engine:
Added decoding support for: Opus, Jpeg 2000
Added support for AVC Level 5.1 on Intel HD Graphics 2500
Added support for subtitles in VOB files.
Added partial H.264 Interlaced support with two fields in one frame.
Added support for VC-1 field interlaced decoding in DXVA mode.
Added support for XSub subtitles (DivX Subtitles) (works only with internal codecs at the moment)
MP4/MOV: support for AMR Wide-band audio streams.
MP4/MOV: detection of Rotate meta-tag with following picture rotate.
Enhancements in PGS/HDMV/DVB-subtitles support. Also, fixed issue when multiple subtitles wasn't able to be displayed.
MPEG2 DXVA decoder: support for videos with 2:3 Pulldown frames.
Enhancements in MJPEG/RealVideo support.
FLV: streaming video (youtube or any other http source) - opening speed-up, determining file duration during playback.
Optimisations in audio decoder.
DTSAC3: enhancements in detection of AC3-streams.
Subtitles: enhancements in subtitles queue.
Subtitles: enhancements in parsing/rendering mechanism of PGS/DVB subtitles.
Minor optimisations to LivePreview feature.
Updates in stereo-to-4.0/5.1/71 upmix coefficients.
Codecs were updated (ffmpeg git-5148147b, libopus 1.0.1 git-e7e933c), MediaInfo module has been updated (MediaInfo svn-5307), and some other system components.
Some MPEG-TS files cannot be opened.
Wasapi Audio Renderer: WASAPI Shared mode is not used now if sampling rates of the input and output streams differ
Fixed issues with WavPack 24/96 and 32/96 playback.
Fixed issues with data parsing about chapters from IFO-file when more than one Program Chains is available.
Fixes in DVD-subtitles parser/renderer (picture was black some times).
Audio switcher: fixed buffer overflow which produces stuttering and crackling on some audio files.
Subtitles: subtitles wasn't displayed correctly if output was in YUY2 colorspace.
Subtitles: fix high RAM usage with some complex subtitles.
Subtitles: some times subtitles were displayed with doodle symbols.
Subtitles: player crash when PGS/DVB subtitles resolution was higher than video-stream resolution.
Subtitles: no subtitles were on anamorphic videos (like 1440x1080 with 16:9 ratio).
FLAC: player crash on broken files, also some files wasn't played well.
AVI: player crash on files with broken data.
And ~4 other fixes.

New in Light Alloy 4.6.7 Build 726 (Sep 15, 2012)

UI:
Polish language by Adam Malich.
Limited, experimental support for ISO (required installed LAV Filters).
Preferences->Events: *Enable skipping opening/endings*. With it you can mark on timeline opening/endings that player should just skip. To use it, just enable this option, open some media file, hold right mouse button when mouse cursor is over timeline, and move it to desired position so you can highlight a spots on timeline which player will not play. In Preferences->Keyboard, *Seek* section, also added hotkey commands according to this feature.
Preferences->Keyboard: Seek section: new commands - Subtitle Forward / Backward. Works well only for external subtitles. If built-in within container (mkv, mp4, ...) - works only to forward direction.
Preferences->Keyboard: Playlist section: new command - *Show / Hide search field". With arrow keys (left/right) you can navigate within search results. With Esc key - you can get rid of focus from search field.
Preferences->Keyboard: *subtitles* section: new commands - Subtitle font increase / Subtitle font decrease
Preferences->Sound: added WASAPI Audio Renderer support to output devices list.
Preferences->Mouse: added new option - *Swap left and right mouse buttons for the video/audio/subtitle options buttons*; plus - ability to seek by mouse for default left button mouse action (Pause + Move Window + Seek) just like on iPad/iPhone - hold left mouse button in fullscreen, and move it to right or left.
Preferences->Mouse: Added ability to seek for default left button mouse action by dragging mouse cursor from right -> left (seek forward) and left -> right (seek backward). Works in fullscreen mode only.
Preferences->System: option *Show CPU Usage*.
Preferences->Global keys: Ability to assign media keys to desired command / 4 new commands added / 'Clear' button / Changes applied immediatelly, without Light Alloy restart.
Preferences->Codecs: option *Disable internal subtitles*.
Scheduler: 'Switch to sleep mode' option.
Subtitle options: added ability to set more charsets / support for ass/ssa / *Default* button now corrently reset subtitles styles to defaults for loaded movie. Previously, only layout settings in subtitle options window were resetted to defaults, but subtitle styles in current movie still were changed.
Subtitle explorer enhancements: unicode support / form resize support / support for multiline subtitles to grid / support for subtitles timing change / some other enhancements.
Popup menu on timeline: options for seeking by key frame.
Updates to Filter Tree dialog.
Updates to external playlist.
Significant improvements to operations (like moving, scrolling, clicking, and so on) responsibility of internal and external playlists with >= 20.000 files within.
Next/Prev chapter: automatically switch you to next/prev file when you call this command on first/last chapter.
Automatically switch to external subtitles, in case of VMR 7/9 WL and EVR renderers, if 'subtitle language by default' option didn't found any matches.
Video/subtitle option dialogs can now be displayed without loading video.
Cosmetics in preferences menu.
Changed some default keyboard keys.
Fixed a few issues with multimedia keys on keyboard.
Fixed player hang when trying to load some VC-1 videos with multiple audio streams in M2TS/TS container.
When some options were used, didn't worked MKV/BD/DVD chapter parser.
Fixes to unicode support in some parts of Light Alloy.
Some fixes to *Playlist->Save Report* function.
Player control from external programs was broken (for ex., IRLink3 or WinLIRC).
Fixed a few issues with media history, also added unicode support for it.
Seek to last playing position* didn't worked for some DVDs.
When you delete file from playlist end --- Light Alloy did scrolling to playlist beginning.
Not all subtitles with unicode filename was loaded fine.
Hints were flicker sometimes.
Popup menu->Video: 'Seek to last position' hotkey didn't worked for DVD.
Live Preview: crash with audio files.
Live Preview: when two monitors connected, preview window always appear on first monitor.
Crash, if Light Alloy was minimized to tray, and user decided to reload/turnoff the computer.
LA didn't restored properly maximized when it was minimized to tray, if you press Global Keys Ctrl+Alt+Home (maximize).
Video Engine:
Decoding support for DVCPRO 50, Apple DVCPRO HD 1080i60, RealAudio Lossless, MSS2, WMA Voice, Canopus CLLC.
Support for RealAudio 14.4.
DXVA decoder now respect CROP value from splitter.
Audio Decoder: ability to set speaker configuration.
Better compatibility with external DirectVobSub filter (eg. xy-vsfilter)
Handle external filter friendly name better.
AVI Splitter: properties dialog.
Do not drop subtitle from parser queue if syntax error has been found, just ignore a bad line.
Updated: codecs, mediainfo module.
Ignore subtitle renderer for Live Preview.
Corrections to DXVA detection mechanism.
MadVR: OSD didn't disappear when it have to be.
MadVR: Sometimes subtitles were displayed in wrong position.
Subtitles charset was ignored.
Battery indicator didn't disappear when it have to be.
When you change subtitles in external application, Light Alloy didn't reload them properly.
Fixed memory leak when displaying OSD.
Fixed a few issues caused DVD playback hang.
Live Preview: fixed timestamp being transparent if black font color is selected.
If you try to save screenshot when movie on pause - movie skipped one frame forward.
If subtitle file was contain syntax error, Light Alloy was unable to continue video file playback.
Fixed crash when player was unable to detect that subtitles didn't loaded well.

New in Light Alloy 4.6.6 Build 356 (Aug 4, 2012)

UI:
New skin: LA Dub (author - Ruslan Somov; technical adaptation - Gilorn)
Dutch language for player UI and installer (author - TheDutchJewel, http://thedutchjewel.defcon5.biz).
Popup Menu: new item *Play CD*.
Popup Menu: new items to *File* section.
Revamped filters tree dialog.
Subtitles options: new checkboxes *position subtitles relative to the video frame* and *apply for all subtitles automatically*.
Preferences->Interface->Appearance: new checkbox *For audio use title from playlist bookmarks, if available*. So, if you started playback of CUE-playlist, in player caption you will see title of current playing element from this CUE-playlist.
Preferences->Interface->Interface window: new sub-option *But display only for current playing file* to option *Add chapters from files on timeline*.
Preferences->Interface: new tab *Tray*.
Preferences->Mouse: new tab *Preview*. When mouse over on timeline, allows you to see the preview of things to come, like on YouTube. Also, if you hold right mouse button + roll mouse wheel -- you can change preview window size.
Preferences->Playlist->Misc: New option "Do not start playback when you drag'n'drop a media-file to Light Alloy's panels".
Preferences->Keyboard: added commands for Pan'n'Scan
Preferences->DVD: added ability to specify CD/DVD/Blu-ray devices by default. (this is for PopUp Menu->*Play CD/DVD disc*)
Preferences->OSD->Subtitles: option *subtitles language by default*.
Preferences->OSD->Subtitles: option *automatically switch to external subtitle*.
Preferences->Codecs: option *ignore system codecs*.
DVD: added support to navigate in dvd menu with keyboard arrow keys / WinLIRC. So, by default - spacebar -> enter menu item, left/right/up/down - navigation, backspace -> out from submenu (last one - works not for all DVD).
DVD: support for malformed dvd-menu.
DVD: output current title/chapter to player's caption, instead of "VIDEO_TS.IFO".
Feature *rewind to last position* now supports DVD.
Popup Menu->Video: new categories - *VSync*, *GPU*, *Misc*.
Enhanced support to unicode.
Autoload of external sound file to next episode of movie, if you manually loaded a same-named external audio file for a previous episode of the movie.
File information dialog: added new fields - *About album...* (album, performer, genre, recorded date, copyrights, comments); for audio streams added - compression method, software used, software settings.
Visual enhancements to hints.
New player control icons to Windows 7 taskbar.
Preferences->Mouse: changes default actions to 'Left button, one click', 'Left button, double click'.
Preferences->OSD->Subtitles: default texture resolution for subtitles is now 1280x720. Compromise between quality and speed.
If LA cannot play file, he will no more try to playback next file.
DVD: Block attempt to seek in dvd-menu.
Crash when you trying to open 'About Light Alloy' dialog, if when player is running - you plug-in second monitor.
Preferences->OSD->Subtitles: *Folders with subtitles* wasn't function properly.
Feature *save full-screen screenshots from movie* was broken.
DVD: Autoplay didn't function well.
DVD: Sometimes LA hangs.
If video file was contain unicode symbols in its filename, screenshot function didn't worked properly.
Save full-screen screenshots:
a) filename was empty in some cases.
b) added timestamps to filename.
c) Now it will open folder with results, after work is done.
Fixed player crash when you use 'save full-screen screenshots' or 'save thumbnails', if video file was playing with active _external_ sound stream.
Sometimes error occuried when you try to scroll in external playlist window.
Fixed disappearing of Blu-ray chapters.
Links in *About Light Alloy* wasn't work.
A lot of cosmetical and other fixes which were made behind the scenes.
Video Engine:
Added decoding support to internal video/audio decoders of following:
Video: Flash Screen Video 1, Fraps, Bink Video, PNG, TechSmith Codec 2, MSS 1/3/4
Audio: DVD Audio, DTS Audio CD, MLP, Bink Audio, Indeo Audio
Added support for AMR.
Added support for Mixed AudioCD.
Added support for DVB subtitles in MKV.
Added support for external SUP subtitles (only for VMR-7/9 RL, EVR CA/Sync)
Detection of compatible hardware and drivers of ATI-videocards for H.264 playback + DXVA (only for Windows Vista/7 for now)
FLV Splitter: support for AAC-audio streams without extradata in header.
Technical OSD: detection of CPU/GPU load (in case of GPU, only nVidia videocard are support at the moment).
Enhanced detection of MPEG-4 with broken metadata atom.
When you try to playback MPEG-1/2 or DVD with activated madVR - Light Alloy will automatically and silently fallback to VMR9-WL, because madVR cannot work properly with these media types.
MPEG-TS/PS - enhanced seeking on H.264/VC-1
Enhanced H.264 support for DXVA decoder on Interlaced movies - fixed freezes on seeking and when playback start with some movies.
Updated internal codecs; media info module.
Fixed appearing of green lines on DXVA-movies which occasionally happens to users with ATI-videocards.
MPEGSplitter: subtitles were not working with chinese Windows.
Fixed WMA decoding with internal audio decoder.
Fixed "VC-1 I" decoding in DXVA-mode, which occasionally freeze picture and solution was a seeking in file. (apply in most cases for ATI-videocards).
Fixed crash on some OGGs files.
"OSD with video" didn't worked for madVR.
Subtitles: HDMV/DVB subtitles were disappear after window bounds change.
Subtitles: when you switch to HDMV/DVB subtitles from any others(text, like srt/ssa) - subtitles were not displaying, also when you switch to any text subtitles from HDMV/DVB - subtitles were not displayer correctly (wrong position and size)
Subtitles: wrong position, size and aspect ratio when displaying raster subtitles (VOBSub, PGS, DVB).
Fixed no sound issue with PCM output in 32-bit.

New in Light Alloy 4.5.6 Build 638 (Feb 16, 2012)

Added support for VMR-7. So there is no more should be a problem to TV-out a video player. Also, from now this mode is default for Windows XP users.
Added support for Indeo 3/4/5, VP 3/3.1 (Flash Video), VP 8 (WebM), Sorenson - via internal codecs.
Added support for Lagarith, Canopus HQ/Lossless - via external codecs.
Added support for WMVideo Decoder DMO
Added support for common RealAudio codecs(cook, atrac, aac, ac3, raac, G.728).
Added support to select stream via filters popup menu for splitters which support such interface (ex. Haali Media Source, MPC Mpeg Source).
Right click mouse menu->Application->"Clear media cache": now its also clear the recent list for Light Alloy in Windows 7 Jump Lists.
Preferences->Interface: added 'Use extended open dialog'
Preferences->Mouse: support for DVD/MKV/MP4 chapter selection for additional mouse buttons combobox, plus a few new other options.
Preferences->Events: added 'Where player was closed' to 'Use display' combobox.
Preferences->Video: added 'determine automatically' to Monitor combobox.
Preferences->Video: added support to create screenshots in PNG format
Preferences->Keyboard: added ability to set keys for playlist move cursor selection up/down.
Preferences->Codecs: added ability to show filter properties ("O" button)
Preferences->Codecs->Search for external filters:
search field
ability to unregister filters from system, plus quick link to search information in internet about selected filter.
color diff: filters which cannot be deleted cause of system stability reasons (marked as red), filters which are broken (marked as yellow), and others which can be changed without problems.
Automatically loading chapters navigation from MKV/MP4/OGM and place it on timeline and in playlist.
New language file: Ukrainian (authors: Gumbo & Gilorn)
Updated official skin. (author: Gilorn)
Updated internal codecs, mediainfo module.
Fixed player crash with installed Averedia MPEG Encoder
Fixed player crash because of some VC-1, MP4.
Fixed player crash because of incorrect settings in MPC Video Decoder.
Fixed issue with CoreAVC + DXVA + Subtitles = green screen.
Fixed issue with playback of MP3, FLAC, RealVideo/RealMedia, OGG, DTS, AC3 on internal codecs.
Loading external sound was not working for all audio formats which Light Alloy support.
DVD: no playpos / duration was shown
DVD: sometimes subtitles wasn't shown
Seek to last playing position' wasn't worked well
Fixed bookmark selection in playlist.
Scheduler didn't remember his state on player restart.
Preferences->Keyboard: in some cases changes wouldn't save.

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