DVDStyler is an open source and cross-platform DVD authoring application that allows you to create professional-looking DVDs. It is actually a GUI (Graphical User Interface) front-end for the dvdauthor command-line software. The program provides a user-friendly and intuitive interface, which lets users to effortlessly create DVD-Video discs that feature a concert, a wedding or another important event in their life.
Supports many popular video formats
The DVD-Video discs created with DVDStyler can include interactive menus, multiple audio and subtitle tracks, photo slideshows, and customizable navigation. Designing your own DVD menu is an easy and fun task with this application, which also provides a nice collection of menu templates for novices users. The application supports some of the most popular video formats, including AVI, MPEG, MPEG-2, XviD, DivX, MP4, MOV, WMV, and OGG, as well as a wide range of audio formats, including MP3, AC-3 and MP2.
Create professional-looking DVD-Video discs
An interesting feature is the ability to use VOB and MPEG files without reencoding in order to create a professional-looking DVD-Video disc. In addition, DVDStyler allows you to include different video and audio file formats in one DVD. Among other nice and unique features, the application provides support for multi-core processors, PAL and NTSC standards, 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratio, labels, fixed or automatic video bitrate, configurable audio bitrate, title post commands, and flexible menu creation based on SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics).
Create astonishing DVD-Video menus
Additionally, DVDStyler allows users to import image files from their computer and use them as backgrounds for the DVD menus, place buttons, add text boxes and other graphic objects anywhere in the menu. The menu buttons can be highly customized by changing the color and font, as well as other parameters. You can also easily scale any button or graphic object.
Bottom line
During our tests, we have found DVDStyler to be a comprehensive DVD authoring utility, an unique application on the Linux platform. Unfortunately, these days only a few people use the DVD format.
What is new in this release:
- fixed handling of files with multiple video streams (pictures, video thumbnails or cover arts)
- added possibility to play video from internal file browser
- win32/win64: updated Manolito's VBR plug-in
What is new in version 3.0.3:
- Disabled copy option for non-MPEG2 video streams
- Added parameter "-pix_fmt yuv420p" to transcoder
- Fixed displaying first video frame in frame button
- Changed transcoding caching to allow put multiple equal video files on DVD (e.g. with different cut points)
- Added support of EXIF metadata in slideshow
- Added CBR option for menu and slideshow enoding settings (disabled by default)
- Added Bulgarian translation (thanks to Ivan Dobrev)
- win32/win64: updated Manolito's VBR plug-in
What is new in version 3.0.2:
- improved handling of process messages
- updated Manolito's VBR plug-in and enabled by default
- changed encoding of menu and slideshow to use constant bitrate (CBR)
- fixed using of transcoding cache after restarting of DVDStyler
- win32/win64: updated ffmpeg to version 3.1.2 (rogerdpack build with Windows-XP patch)
What is new in version 3.0.1:
- fixed using of transcoding cache after restarting of DVDStyler
- included Manolito's VBR plug-in
What is new in version 2.9.6 / 3.0 RC1:
- Audio properties: allow negative dB values
- Disabled "Frame data under-runs detected" error message (mplex)
- Added menu template "Camera"
- Added menu template "Fireworks"
What is new in version 2.9.5:
- button parameters: added possibility to specify multiple svg elements
- disabled mplex for menus with still images without audio
- updated some translations
What is new in version 2.9.3:
- added option to enable reencoding of ntsc film (24 fps)
- disabled reencoding of ntsc film (24 fps) by default
- fixed some bugs
- updated ffmpeg to version 2.7.1
What is new in version 2.9.2:
- fixed muxrate
What is new in version 2.9.1:
- added selection of player for preview
- added possibility to normalize audio (replay gain)
- added ability to choose 5.1 audio and normalizing as default in the settings
- added possibility to select border or crop to keep aspect ratio
- added possibility to set default subtitle properties
- added possibility to keep and use cached files after restarting of DVDStyler
- redesigned the menu properties dialog
- joined chapter and cell properties dialogs
- enabled reencoding of ntsc film (24 fps) by default
- fixed displaying of video bitrate if video don't need be transcoded
- fixed memory leak (thanks to Sebastian Vater)
- win32: updated ffmpeg to version 2.5
What is new in version 2.9 RC1:
- added possibility to normalize audio (replay gain)
- added ability to choose 5.1 audio and normalizing as default in the settings
- added possibility to reset subtitle properties
- fixed memory leak (thanks to Sebastian Vater)
What is new in version 2.8.1:
- fixed memory leaks
- updated some translations
- updated FFmpeg to version 2.5
What is new in version 2.9 Beta 2:
- joined chapter and cell properties dialogs
- added possibility to select border or crop to keep aspect ratio
- added selection of player for preview
- fixed displaying of video bitrate if video don't need be transcoded
- fixed one memory leak
- win32: updated ffmpeg to version 2.5
What is new in version 2.8 / 2.9 Beta 1:
- added possibility to set default subtitle properties
- added possibility to keep and use cached files after restarting of DVDStyler
- redesign of menu properties dialog
What is new in version 2.8:
- added possibility to rotate objects and buttons
- added possibility to play all titlesets
- fixed call last menu command
- fixed multithreaded encoding
- fixed some other bugs
- updated ffmpeg to version 2.2.1
What is new in version 2.8 RC3:
- Fixed rotation of objects
What is new in version 2.8 Beta 2:
- Fixed some bugs
- Fixed multithreaded encoding
What is new in version 2.8 Beta 1:
- Added possibility to play all titlesets
- Added possibility to rotate objects and buttons
What is new in version 2.7.2:
- fixed some small bugs
- win32: updated ffmpeg to current snapshot version
What is new in version 2.7.1:
- Fixed title selection menu
- Fixed burning from command-line
- Updated FFmpeg to version 2.1.4
What is new in version 2.7:
- better support of multiple titlesets
- added a possibility to add a chapter selection menu
- added the rectangle selection tool
- added possibility to align multiple buttons to left/right/top/bottom
- added slide properties dialog
- added a possibility to select a titleset to import from DVD
- changed to use mplex tool for menu multiplexing
- updated ffmpeg to version 2.1.3
What is new in version 2.7 Beta 3:
- Added a possibility to select a title to import from DVD
- Added the rectangle selection tool
What is new in version 2.7 Beta 2:
- Changed to use mplex tool for menu multiplexing
What is new in version 2.7 Beta 1:
- Added possibility to align multiple buttons to left/right/top/bottom
- Added slide properties dialog
What is new in version 2.6.1:
- Fixed device enumeration on Windows
- Updated some translations
- Updated FFmpeg to version 2.1.1
What is new in version 2.6:
- Added slideshow transitions
- Loop slideshow audio
- Added support of ffmpeg audio filters (see https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html)
- Added possibility to specify output directory
- Added command line options "temp", "iso" and "device"
- Added displaying of progress by loading files
- Added printing of the title size information in log
- Fixed handling of unicode filenames on Windows
- Fixed upmix to 5.1
- Fixed calculation of borders for keeping aspect ratio
- Updated ffmpeg to version 2.0.1
What is new in version 2.6 RC3:
- Fixed some bugs.
What is new in version 2.5.2:
- Added log file
- Fixed loading of project with video buttons
What is new in version 2.5.1:
- Updated FFmpeg to version 2.0.
What is new in version 2.5:
- redesigned chapters and cell properties dialogs
- added frame spin controls
- added disc capacity "CD 700MB"
- added possibility to justify text left/right
- added support of video files without audio streams
- added support of SMPTE time codes in chapter list
- added possibility to set "default chapter length" to 0 to disable creation of chapters
- fixed rendering of video buttons
- fixed displaying of start and recording time
- updated ffmpeg to version 1.2
- added Spanish (Argentina) translation (thanks to Eduardo Quinteros)
- added Hungarian translation of DVDStyler Guide (thanks to Gabor Demecs)
What is new in version 2.4.3:
- fixed rendering of video buttons
- fixed initialization of auto-execute flag
- added Spanish (Argentina) translation (thanks to Eduardo Quinteros)
What is new in version 2.5 Beta 1:
- added support of video files without audio streams
- added support of SMPTE time codes in bei chapter list
- fixed displaying of start and recording time
- updated ffmpeg to version 1.1.3
What is new in version 2.4.2:
- Fixed transcoding of video files that contnains first audio then video stream.
- Added check if video fit on DVD without re-encoding.
What is new in version 2.4.1:
- added some new templates
- added frame 45
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