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Light Alloy vs MPC-BE: catalog facts
Light Alloy	MPC-BE
Free Completely free to download and use.	Free Free and open source under the GPL version 3.
Windows	Windows
Portable version available Highly customisable with skins	Plays almost any audio or video format without hunting for codec packs Very small and starts instantly compared with modern players
Windows only Official site and help are in Russian	Windows only Requires an SSE2 CPU and a DirectX 9.0c card with Pixel Shader 3.0
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: GPL-3.0
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026

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