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DVDStylerRECENTLY UPDATED |
DVD Styler is a crossplatform GUI frontend to the dvd authoring and recording programs dvdauthor and dvdrecord. The main DVDStyler features are: creation and burning DVD video with interactive menus,* support of AVI, MPEG and other file formats, support of MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, Xvid, MP2, MP3, AC-3 and other audio and video formats, using MPEG and VOB files without reencoding, allows put files with different audio/video format on one DVD (support of titleset), user-friendly interface with support of drag & drop, flexible menu creation on the basis of scalable vector graphic, import of image file for background, placing of buttons, text, images and other graphic objects anywhere on the menu screen, etc.
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Free software/Adware  Win  Mac  Linux  Released: Size:21.2MB |
7.6/10
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Latest version: 2.4.3/2.5 beta 4 (May 20, 2013) Download sites: Visit developer's site More download options: Download latest beta version Sponsored software: Supported operating systems: Windows Mac OS Linux
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User options: Email me when it has been updated Report this tool (dead link/new version) Version history:
Version 2.5 beta 4 <2013-05-20> View full changelog ------------------------------- * redesigned chapters and cell properties dialogs * added Hungarian translation of DVDStyler Guide (thanks to Gábor Demecs)
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This is the only freeware program I've ever seen that gets worse with each subsequent release. I check in on it now and then to see if the author has managed to fix anything, and sometimes things have been fixed, only to be replaced with new more horrific bugs. For example: two minutes waiting for a properties box to close. Four minutes to load a project. Crashes routine. Suggestion, encode all video objects beforehand, never allow DVDStyler to transcode.
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The final video quality is awful, and the program crashes all over. Besides, Every time is a new problem in authoring anything, even if its simple.
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I've dumped on this program but it does have one very useful attribute. It doesn't seem to rely on external codecs like the only other useful and semi intuitive DVD author I've used (avstodvd). avstodvd is one of those things that installs ffdshow, haali etc. Then it modifies the registry so everything in the system uses them instead of directshow/directx. Then, other very good programs (like vlc, smplayer) that don't need that crap don't work as well. I yanked avstodvd and all the other crap it installs. I still don't think the encoding in dvdstyler is very good. The quality isn't great and it doesn't deal with input files using odd 3rd party codecs. But it's a good DVD author. My preferred method now is to use avidemux (which is really good at dealing with a wide variety of input) to convert the input to a DVD compliant file. Then use dvdstyler without reencoding.
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Responding to last review, I have done many DVDs with menus with DVDStyler over the years. Works great for me!
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Very easy step-in to authoring world. Only problem is that it cannot do any menus, at all. Crashes out with "Create menu MPEG" after adding some simple buttons. Does not matter what you do with them, 'as is' or any and all changes to them render this same result - crash. DVDStyler can in this state only be used to create dvds without menu. For this it is very handy with no limits to subs etc. like seen elsewhere. Maybe it will start working with menus in the future. When and if it does, ill donate for sure. (I'm not entirely green on this stuff. Ive checked and double checked so its not some command error given somewhere. Its simply something very wrong with it in current state. Google on this error, and there are many hits with users having problems but no solution. Simply does not work with menus).
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Extremely inefficient! Spumux is very slow and DVDStyler never completes pre-verification. So you spend hours waiting until you get error messages. Fails over fails, you will probably want to throw that poor software in the garbage.
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The current version of DVDStyler for Mac is still at 1.8.3, and though it has a couple of modest problems, it does the job fairly well (but I don't know why it's no longer listed here). However, a few weeks ago the developer told me in an email that he'll very soon bring it to near-parity with the Windows version with the release of DVDStyler 2.0 for OS X! The Mac platform still has far fewer free transcoding and authoring tools than Windows, so I was thrilled to hear that Mr. Thüring will continue providing this arrow for our half-empty quiver. Bravo, kudos, and drinks all 'round!
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I just wish the developer would quit with the sneaky adware in the installer. The latest installer (having to click "custom install" to bypass the adware installation) is a bit underhand. I really hate this "trend" amongst open source software.
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I just want to thank the developer Alex Thüring for his continuing hard work with this nifty application. He is continually updating it & introducing new features. Now it has avisynth support! Whoot! Thanks!
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Well, I've dumped on this program in the past, but this version works better. I tried it after I discovered that the new version of avstodvd doesn't produce dvds that my dvd player can recognize and that I couldn't even get a reinstall of the old one to work. My patience is rather thin on crap like this, and I don't feel using freeware implies that users should be considered free testers. Anyway, the CPU usage is still quite high but it works a lot better. I did have a problem with a .sub file but may have found a way around it on the sourceforge forum. Haven't tried it yet. I would also like to be able to find some way to set it to 2 pass encoding.
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"libgobject-2.0-0.dll" is missing from latest beta?
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I have a video hobby and often need to make a quick nice looking DVD for a camcorder project. I have been following the ongoing development of DVDStyler for some time. It is very useful for making a quick DVD for my camcorder/DVDrecorder footage. Thanks for your hard work on this great program to date.. The most useful feature of it for me is its easy DVD menu creation ability. The feature I would most like to see added is a easy way to create a chapter menu. As it stands, I can make a menu with links to each VOB but don't see any way to link existing chapter markers to menu buttons. There are many programs available for a fee that make nice DVD menus (ie DVD Lab and Sony Architect) but as a rule, they are very complicated and have more features than are needed for a quick and simple solution.
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Apart from pointing out the 'portable version' isn't in fact portable - I wanted to test DVD Styler by running it from a USB stick, but when I double clicked on the downloaded file instead of running, it installed itself onto my hard drive - nevertheless I have to say it does what it says, creates basic menus on DVD Snrink re authoured vobs. Ease of use is good once you get used to it and DVD's seem to play on standalone DVD players. At least, I've had no problems so far.
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Wanted to create a DVD with "text as buttons/links" so to speak.....worked like a charm. I planned on just importing my already chaptered(no menu) DVD into the program...no such luck....so I grabbed ChapterGrabber and VOB2MPEG and created what DVDStyler needed and went from there. Ended up with a one page menu with just song titles and a background image of my choosing. Nice stuff....and can't beat the price.
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Could use LPCM as an audio option as well as a 'no menu' function but the program functions very well. Perfect as a simple menu program with the freedom to not use templates.
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I've used this for quite awhile now for basic dvd menus. Just got done trying out the new avi support. All I can say is it worked very well converting an avi to dvd with a menu. It just keeps getting and better and better.
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This is a great free software. Easy to figure out. very intuitive. I am using this regularly after trying many others. It is good enough for basic dvd creation needs. Thanks to the authors for following KISS rule.
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Have found, with a bit of use, DVDStyler to be very good. Occasionally when given an mpeg that's not DVD compliant there are problems. I usually demux it (mpgtx.exe in the dvdauthor folder) and remux it (mplex.exe in same folder) and the problem is fixed. (mplex -f 8 -V -o Outputfile.mpg inputvideo.m2v inputaudio.ac3)
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Not an intuitive interface but handles well once you get going with the aid of the manual. Good features like being able to assign commands for remotes to buttons (my player remote only does up and down!). However, I am giving this a low score overall because it crashes almost immediately, during menu generation, after telling it to create a DVD iso.
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Does not work after several updates the only change is crashing during menu creation instead of errors dring muxing.
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A lot of *.dll files are missing from the installation ! ie. freetyoe6.dll, libpng13.dll, etc. etc.
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I'll start off by saying - "DO NOT USE SPECIAL CHARACTERS IN THE TEMP FOLDER"!!! DVDStyler will choke. Other than that, it works great and you'll be creating great menu's fairly easily once you get the hang of it. I've created some pretty nice menu's with it, including menu's with motion backgrounds. Easily the best free DVD Authoring gui w/ menu's capabilities. It takes the great DVDAuthor application and facilitates its use and some. Two thumbs up.
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Brilliant authoring program, very easy to use with advanced features and just does the job. Despite the comment below, yes you can author the dvd without a menu, load of your video files in to the program then double click on "menu 1" on the bottom left hand corner and then pull down the pre-commands box and select "jump title (number of track);"
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My only complaint about this tool is its forced "menu" feature. It does not allow dvd creation without the menu and I like my dvd movies created without that. I want the disc to start playing the movie as soon as I shoved the disc into the tray. After creating the vobs, I have to use dvdshrink to reauthor the movie to fix the problem.
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Menus are not intuitive, but it works well once you figure things out. Contains a known bug for NTSC users; could be solved simply by including the fix files in a separate version for NTSC users, but is only pointed out in the WikiFAQ. Also deteriorates menu background images by default (again, solution to increase image bitrate is mentioned in a WikiFAQ). Boasts DVD burn capability, but the option was not available; I assume that neither of my burners, nor my burning utilities or applications, were recognized.
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