Light Alloy 4.10.0

What's new in this version:

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- This is the latest major version of Light Alloy with new features, as it goes to support-mode only, since it's been superseded by Verona Player (https://verona.im).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