Light Alloy 4.10.1

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.

Frontend:
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.
Updated official web-site URL and official support email.
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.

# Frontend:
- Experimental optimization of fullscreen/windowed modes switching. Should be much faster now.
- Omega skin: colorize volume control background when you go over 100%.
- Some more settings can now be migrated when preferences are upgraded to newest version.
- Updated OpenSSL libraries.
- Preferences->Interface: fixed broken windowed mode for two options in "Control Panel" dropdown. [regression]
- Fixed skins that located in folder were not shown anymore in "?" button popup.
- Fixed some issues with remembering state of panels.

- 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.

# Frontend:
- Preferences->Mouse->Areas: added ability to switch subtitles/sound stream for left-up and right-up areas.
- Preferences->Keyboard: added hotkey to rotate video by Z in Video section.
- Video rotate setting now remembered per-file, not globally.
- Disabled the DPI Awareness flag, to resolve problems with the interface for DPI >100%. Normal support for different DPI will be implemented in future versions.
- Preferences->Playlist: preview window now respect font that you have either in Font menu or in current skin when you switch between "always the same" and "Use from skin".
- Preferences->OSD/Subtitles->Subtitles: display->Expert Menu mode: texture resolution is now equal to desktop resolution, by default.
- Mouse Areas of Video: now they activated by left mouse click, previously an area was activated by double mouse click which wasn't obvious for some users.
- Slightly updated About box, added some additional contact info
- Some internal code cleaning, removed some options, and made some optimizations.
- Function of the Original Size (Home) wasn't respecting minimal width of audio skin.
- Sound options: changing normalization method didn't applied immediatelly, it was necessary to close the settings window first.
- Media-oriented open dialog: function of the "Add all from current folder" button didn't work correctly.
- Media-oriented open dialog: fixed saving of view style & columns width.
- Playlist: folder mode - fixed auto-correction of the size of some controls while playing the file.
- Playlist: folder mode - font name/size settings were ignored.
- Playlist: Jump to File: some fixes to items paint procedure.
- Playlist: M3U - fixed issue with character encoding on UTF8 files without BOM.
- Skins: fixed a few issues with video panel repaint when switching between audio and video mode or vice-versa.
- Skins: fixed subtitle button for Omega.

# 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.