Light Media Center v2.1.2

Light Media Center 2.1.2 focused on accuracy and quality improvements for photos and videos rendering.

Improvements

• Improved thumbnail performance and memory usage
• Improved photos / videos rendering quality and accuracy
• Improved robustness when handling corrupted / malformed metadata

Known issues

• Server transcoding may not preserve certain metadata (e.g. Dolby Vision, interlace).
• HDR and WCG are not available on GNOME Wayland by default; perceptual HDR can be enabled manually (see installation docs).
• Wayland Picture-in-Picture video playback does not automatically pin the window on top of others. This is a Wayland protocol limitation.
• Android system library does not support grouping by geo locations due to Android API limitation.
• Android hardware decoding does not support dynamic HDR metadata (Dolby Vision / HDR10+) due to ffmpeg mediacodec API limitation.

Light Media Center 2.1.0

Light Media Center 2.1 (renamed from Light Player) expands advanced color support across video and photos, and improved overall experience and reliability.

New Features

• HDR and color: added tone mapping profiles for photos and videos. You can configure multiple tone mapping curves and select which one to be applied in various scenarios.
• Photos: save and convert photos with color space and metadata options.
• Video: Desktop platforms now support saving screenshots in original resolution, color precision and color space, including WCG / HDR content. Support configurable font family and font size for SRT subtitles.
• Photos and videos: advanced color thumbnails.

Improvements

• Subtitles: improved rendering for ASS/SSA layout and effects.
• Settings: reorganized structure and more robust startup settings loading
• Interface: refined Apple-style visuals, Wayland client-side decorations, and context menus

Other Changes

• Executable name is renamed from lmp (Light Media Player) to lmc (Light Media Center)

Known issues

• Server transcoding may not preserve certain metadata (e.g. Dolby Vision, interlace).
• HDR and WCG are not available on GNOME Wayland by default; perceptual HDR can be enabled manually (see installation docs).
• Wayland Picture-in-Picture video playback does not automatically pin the window on top of others. This is a Wayland protocol limitation.
• Android system library does not support grouping by geo locations due to Android API limitation.
• Android hardware decoding does not support dynamic HDR metadata (Dolby Vision / HDR10+) due to ffmpeg mediacodec API limitation.

Light Player 2.0.1

• Update metainfo.xml & screenshots
• Use Flatpak built-in MPRIS.

Light Player 2.0

Light Player 2.0 turns the music player into a complete media center for music, videos, and photos. It now runs on Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, and in Chromium-based web browser, and it can bring media from your other devices, your own Light Player server, Nextcloud, and WebDAV storage into a single library.

New Features

• New home page
• Remote Library
• Video Playback
• Image Viewer
• Photo Library with smart indexing / searching
• Audio stem separation

Known issues

• Server transcoding may not preserve certain metadata (e.g. Dolby Vision, interlace)
• HDR and WCG are not available on GNOME Wayland
• Wayland Picture-in-Picture video playback does not automatically pin the window on top of others
• Android system library does not support grouping by geo locations
• Android hardware decoding does not support dynamic HDR metadata (Dolby Vision / HDR10+).

Light Player 1.0

Port the classic Light Player from Windows UWP to Avalonia.

New Features

• Linux support