DVDStyler Portable 1.8.0.1 Released

John T. Haller's picture
Submitted by John T. Haller on February 24, 2010 - 8:16pm

Pidgin logoDVDStyler Portable 1.8.0.1 has been released. DVDStyler Portable is the popular DVDStyler program packaged with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your DVD creation tool settings with you. This release updates DVDStyler to the latest version. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it's open source and completely free.

Read on for more details...

Features

DVDStyler Portable Screenshot

  • creating a DVD video with interactive menus
  • support AVI, MPEG and VOB files
  • using MPEG and VOB files without reconverting
  • allows put files with different audio/video format on one DVD (support of titleset)
  • drag and drop video files directly
  • import image file for background
  • place buttons, text, images and graphic objects anywhere on the menu screen
  • change font/color and other parameters of buttons and graphic object
  • scale buttons and graphic objects
  • copy and paste any menu object and whole menu
  • set chapters for each movie
  • set pre and post commands for each movie and menu

Learn more about DVDStyler...

New In This Release

This release updates DVDStyler to the latest release.

PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format

DVDStyler Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Suite including the Menu and Backup Utility.

Download

DVDStyler Portable is available for immediate download from the DVDStyler Portable homepage. Get it today!

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Comments

John T. Haller's picture

As usual, this is a false positive:
http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/d258057125ad586ab570f9128c0c7e4eb5375...

The issue should be reported to Trend Micro. They seem to have false positive issues fairly frequently, and PAK_Generic.001 is a generic "we think there might be something wrong with this" result from them, which is their most frequent mistake.

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NathanJ79's picture

Is this like ConvertX, an application used to convert AVI et al to the DVD format? I remember looking at DVD Styler a while ago (2+ years ago) and thinking I'd need TMPGEnc to process the video and this would only author the VOB files processed by TMPGEnc to the VIDEO_TS folder for burning to DVD... but the description says otherwise. I've been ignoring this program all this time... Will this let me ditch ConvertX?

I'm not using ConvertX, but it sounds like it's a media converting program, whereas DVDStyler has a totally different function! As it says in the description, this program gives you capability to make a customized menu for a DVD. You know, when you insert a genuine DVD movie into a DVD player, that menu with special background, buttons where you choose language(s), chapter(s), special taken-out scenes and stuff... Since it does that, you can easily burn a couple of .avi formatted movies on it and make buttons for launching each of those movies... It's a great program, let's you give a personalized touch to a DVD you're making. You might be surprised how well the reaction it causes if you want to give such a personalized DVD as a present... If you make some family (or friends) videos and pictures, make a nice background, nice titles and buttons and everything... Smile

It takes a little of your time to personalize a DVD, but for an occasion you want to do it, it's more than useful! And later on, you can just load that project and change a little bit about what button links to which video/picture folder, you change those videos/picture folders with new ones and you're good to go. Smile Simple and easy.

Note: when making your first such DVD, I suggest burning it as a virtual DVD on your PC, mounting it then and seeing what it looks like if used on a PC. That way, if you forgot something, or linked the buttons wrong or ... you are not doomed. You can easily modify your former project (of course, if you didn't delete it right after the burning) and modify it as needed.

Cheers Smile

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NathanJ79's picture

So it's not a media converter? But it says above (and you say as well) that it supports .avi files. Normal DVD players don't play .avi files (except those made by Philips). So either it's got to convert them to the DVD format (VOB, a fancy MPEG-2 container) or it makes discs only playable on PCs (and Macs).

Actually I have a confession... menus are my least favorite part of DVDs. I never use them. That's one thing I miss from VHS, the ability to just put the tape in and have it play. I don't miss rewinding and I don't miss a half hour of ads before the movie (although with a little bit of skill it's trivial to physically cut that tape out and splice it. But that's another area where VHS outdoes DVD, some DVDs won't play until you've looked at the ads (they can't be skipped -- would one call that adware?). And when you have kids (whether they're yours or you're just watching them) you can't bother with teaching them how to skip the menus and get to the movie, it's best if the movie just plays.

With some things (home video clips, e.g.) menus are appropriate if you have a bunch of clips and you want the viewer to pick what they want to see from a list. But in that case ConvertX will do (very basic) menus as well as the conversion.

Now that you mention it, I haven't paid much attention to it. I think it converts .avi files, but don't take this for granted. Either it does, or I've only been putting MPEG files on DVD's. I haven't made many of them, I only used it like 2 or 3 times so far...
PS: Now I remembered, my ORION DVD player plays .avi movies, and I have been putting .avi movies on the custom DVDs with menus and it worked. Still not sure about the re-encoding part od DVDStyler, but it played well on the players I checked it on...

Actually I have a confession... menus are my least favorite part of DVDs. I never use them. That's one thing I miss from VHS, the ability to just put the tape in and have it play.

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With some things (home video clips, e.g.) menus are appropriate if you have a bunch of clips and you want the viewer to pick what they want to see from a list. But in that case ConvertX will do (very basic) menus as well as the conversion.

Well, I don't like menus much either. BUT, it's nice if you make it sometimes as I said in my previous post, and give it to someone. For example, you put a family photo as a background of the menu, some nice catchy tune as a background music, and the buttons are something like:
1) Nick's birthday
2) Thanksgiving
3) Family vacation on the Maldives
4) ............

When people see something like that, it makes them happy. It seams just like a professional DVD, with Hollywood movies on it, but it's some family videos and pictures instead.

And all the other DVDs I burn are just plain old plug-n-play, with no menus or anything. That's the way I prefer them, too.

some DVDs won't play until you've looked at the ads (they can't be skipped -- would one call that adware?)

I agree with you 100% on this one! I hate all the movies I bought just because of those pesky adds, which can't be skipped in like 95% of them... Sad I usually let it start and leave it, go to the bathroom/go take snacks/drinks, come back, and IF I missed something I rewind a little. I think that commercial's on "Dungeons and Dragons" were the worst ones I've ever seen. Either I wanted to see the movie that badly, or they lasted for half an hour, but I remember them lasting forever before the movie started... Sad
Well, enough about that. I hope you got your answer, if not please try the documentation on the original DVDStyler website...

Cheers Smile

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