Light Alloy - audio/video player

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Re: Light Alloy 4.9.0 Build 2236 Beta 3

#31 Post by smaragdus »

Light Alloy at version 4.9.0 build 2236 Beta 3, changes:
[ = ] French, Dutch, Czech, Slovak languages were updated.
[ = ] Popup menu: simplied a bit initial upper section of menu, and some additions in ->File section.
[ = ] Skins updated: green areas are not visible anymore
[ - ] Playlist Manager: fixed inproper way to stop media when creating new playlist, so fixed video panel glitches.
[ - ] LA-Renderer registry key was created even if LA was in portable mode.
[ - ] Fixed blue bars & white spaces in internet radio stations list & advanced history
[ - ] External playlist: fixed issue with uninitialized columns width.
[ - ] [Regression] fixed repaint of current active bookmark in playlist when play process reached next bookmark.
[ - ] [Regression] fixed video panel repaint glitches.
[ - ] [Delphi 10.1 Upgrade Regression] CPU Usage monitor doesn't work anymore, now it has been rewritten.
[ - ] [Delphi 10.1 Upgrade Regression] Advanced History: Comments section wasn't saved.
[ - ] [Delphi 10.1 Upgrade Regression] Hidden settings window wasn't saving any changes

P.S [English]. This version is compiled with error catching module & debug mode, so it can work a bit slower than release version.
It seems it is easier throwing arrogant comments:
guinness wrote:
freakazoid wrote:Too lazy to fully submit Light Alloy into TPFC
I am glad you are, because this isn't Portable and doesn't add any value to those players which are portable.
than reporting the problem to the developer. I am sorry I didn't notify the developer about the registry records earlier:

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HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\LA-Codecs
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\LA-Renderer
after he had been notified he fixed the problem very soon and Light Alloy version 4.9.0 Build 2236 Beta 3 no longer writes to registry.

When a stable version is released I will add Light Alloy to the database.

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Re: Light Alloy v4.9.0 build 2274 RC

#32 Post by smaragdus »

Light Alloy at version 4.9.0 build 2274 RC, changes:
[ + ] New official skin: Omega. Audio version is not done yet.
[ + ] Open URL window: setting to monitor clipboard for web links, previously it was a hidden setting.
[ = ] Preferences->Playlist: disable "Font" button if use colors from skin is selected.
[ = ] Updated translations + preliminary version of Spanish translation is added.
[ = ] Start options window: trying to delete LA.portable and switch portable to off, if LA was started with LA.portable beside but user choised to keep settings in AppData.
[ = ] Preferences->Playlist: updated default colors for "always the same" option.
[ = ] Help files finally moved to web-site, available at http://light-alloy.ru/help/
[ - ] Media-oriented open dialog->Favorites: Add button wasn't working.
[ - ] Media oriented open dialog: last pathes dropdown reworked, fixed some issues related to it.
[ - ] Fixed crash in fullscreen opendialog.
[ - ] Fixed player did not respect skin's minimum width/height when switching to one that has higher minimum dimensions than previous one.
[ - ] Preferences->Playlist: bookmark colors were not saved when "always the same" option is used.
[ - ] Preferences->System: fixed problem with error-highlighted of some settings in Hidden Settings window.
[ - ] Some other less noticeable fixes.

P.S [English]. This version is compiled with error catching module & debug mode, so it can work a bit slower than release version.
The new Omega skin:

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it is too flat for my taste.

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Re: Light Alloy 4.9.0 build 2318 stable

#33 Post by smaragdus »

Light Alloy at version 4.9.0 build 2318 (stable), changes:
Light Alloy 4.9.0 (build 2318)

25.12.2016

+added =changed -fixed

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.
I prefer the macOS-like iBloko skin:

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which is not included in the package.

As I have mentioned before Light Alloy no longer writes to registry so now the player is stealth.

To celebrate the first stable version (4.9.0 build 2318) which is stealth I added Light Alloy to the database.

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Light Alloy at Twitter - https://twitter.com/light_alloy
Light Alloy at FossHub - http://www.fosshub.com/Light-Alloy.html
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Light Alloy at Softpedia - http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia ... lloy.shtml
Light Alloy Portable at Softpedia - http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-S ... able.shtml
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Light Alloy at BetaNews - http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Li ... 67003373/1
Light Alloy at DownloadCrew - http://www.downloadcrew.com/article/33000-light_alloy
Light Alloy at AfterDawn - http://www.afterdawn.com/software/audio ... _alloy.cfm
Light Alloy Portable at AfterDawn - http://www.afterdawn.com/software/audio ... rtable.cfm
Light Alloy at Download3K - http://www.download3k.com/MP3-Audio-Vid ... Alloy.html
Light Alloy at CodecPack - http://codecpack.co/download/Light_Alloy.html
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