Light Alloy Guide
Light Alloy - compact, free multimedia player. Supports all popular video/audio/subtitle formats. Key feature - simplicity, easy in use and a lot of settings that can be changed.
Facts about Light Alloy
- Light Alloy is designed to be user friendly, fast and customizable (and in that order).
- Generally, Light Alloy works well "out-of-the-box".
- Light Alloy has built-in codecs. But it can also handle external (user-installed) ones.
- With Light Alloy u can manipulate the video image, and switch to another audio track and / or subtitle track (if available).
- Light Alloy can be controlled with mouse, keyboard and remote control (WinLIRC, for example).
- The appearance of the player is determined by skins. There are a lot of skins available, but only a few are included.
- Each button has a dropdown menu with a hint about the function of the button, and about the right-click context menu (if available).
- In the right-click menu of a button you will find related functions, or options of the main function that users usually change frequently.
- Light Alloy has many settings. Many items have a pop-up window with a further explanation or hint. Hold your mouse pointer over the item to display the hint.
- If the settings in the standard mode are not enough, you can switch to the expert mode. Then you will see all setting options.
System requirements
- processor and videocard with SSE2 support (production year 2003 or newer);
- Windows XP SP2 or newer (Windows 7 is preferred);
- 50 Mb of available space on hard drive;
Software requirements