DVDStyler Changelog

What's new in DVDStyler 3.1

Nov 18, 2019
  • added some new buttons (movie, settings, etc.)
  • added possibility to create a new button from SVG file
  • added possibility to edit buttons
  • added frame-text button and template (thanks to ecodrv)
  • fixed functionality of command "call last menu;" if specified for a chapter
  • added support of HD videos (experimental, can be activated in settings)
  • fixed some bugs
  • win32/win64: fixed starting VLC player
  • win32/win64: updated ffmpeg to version 4.1.1

New in DVDStyler 3.0.4 (Feb 13, 2018)

  • Changes:
  • fixed handling of files with multiple video streams (pictures, video thumbnails or cover arts)
  • added possibility to play video from internal file browser

New in DVDStyler 3.0.3 (Jan 20, 2017)

  • 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 encoding settings (disabled by default)
  • added Bulgarian translation (thanks to Ivan Dobrev)

New in DVDStyler 3.0.2 (Aug 22, 2016)

  • Improved handling of process messages
  • Changed encoding of menu and slideshow to use constant bitrate (CBR)
  • Fixed using of transcoding cache after restarting of DVDStyler

New in DVDStyler 3.0.1 (Aug 22, 2016)

  • Fixed using of transcoding cache after restarting of DVDStyler

New in DVDStyler 3.0 (Jul 14, 2016)

  • added support of animations
  • added validation of menu cell actions
  • added option "keep aspect ratio" for image in frame
  • added option "add chapter at title end"
  • added option to downmix audio to stereo
  • fixed setting of chapters if video is cut
  • fixed fade in/out if video is cut
  • fixed applying of audio filters if mplex is used
  • added support of MPC-HC
  • audio normalization: added clipping protection
  • interlaced encoding: added -alternate_scan parameter
  • added clear cache button in settings dialog
  • added support Manolito's VBR plug-in
  • added scrollbar to video object box in title properties
  • added support of metadata (chapter and audio/subtitle language names)
  • added possibility to force display subtitles (but it doesn't work in VLC)
  • added menu templates "Heart" and "MothersDay" (thanks to Gerd Altmann for the images)
  • fixed some bugs

New in DVDStyler 2.9.6 (Feb 29, 2016)

  • audio properties: allow negative dB values
  • disabled "Frame data under-runs detected" error message (mplex)
  • added menu template "Camera"
  • added menu template "Fireworks"

New in DVDStyler 2.9.5 (Jan 18, 2016)

  • button parameters: added possibility to specify multiple svg elements
  • disabled mplex for menus with still images without audio
  • updated some translations

New in DVDStyler 2.9.4 (Oct 7, 2015)

  • Changes:
  • added option to turn off computer when burning is finished (Windows & Linux)
  • fixed option "remember last button"
  • added support of SMPTE time codes in chapter dialog
  • fixed audio time offset (enabled only for separate streams)
  • fixed some slideshow transitions
  • changed default frame count for still NTSC menu to 15 (=GOP size)
  • forcing key frames at chapter marks if video is reencoded
  • fixed option "remember last button"
  • fixed playing the NTSC video inside the frame
  • added displaying of the chapter end time if auto is selected

New in DVDStyler 2.9.3 (Oct 7, 2015)

  • Changes:
  • 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

New in DVDStyler 2.9.2 (Feb 18, 2015)

  • fixed muxrate

New in DVDStyler 2.9.1 (Feb 16, 2015)

  • added +genpts muxing flag to improved compatibility on some dvd players (thanks to Manolito)
  • updated some translations

New in DVDStyler 2.9 (Feb 9, 2015)

  • 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

New in DVDStyler 2.9 RC 1 (Jan 19, 2015)

  • 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)

New in DVDStyler 2.8.1 (Jan 12, 2015)

  • Changes:
  • fixed memory leaks
  • updated some translations
  • updated ffmpeg to version 2.5

New in DVDStyler 2.9 Beta 2 (Dec 9, 2014)

  • 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

New in DVDStyler 2.9 Beta 1 (Nov 17, 2014)

  • added possibility to set default subtitle properties
  • added possibility to keep and use cached files after restarting of DVDStyler
  • redesign of menu properties dialog

New in DVDStyler 2.8 (Sep 15, 2014)

  • 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

New in DVDStyler 2.8 RC 3 (Sep 8, 2014)

  • Fixed rotation of objects.

New in DVDStyler 2.8 Beta 2 (Apr 29, 2014)

  • fixed some bugs
  • fixed multithreaded encoding

New in DVDStyler 2.8 Beta 1 (Apr 29, 2014)

  • added possibility to play all titlesets
  • added possibility to rotate objects and buttons

New in DVDStyler 2.7.2 (Apr 7, 2014)

  • Fixed some small bugs.

New in DVDStyler 2.7.1 (Mar 11, 2014)

  • fixed title selection menu
  • fixed burning from command line
  • OS X: created DMG package
  • OS X: fixed preview using VLC media player
  • OS X: fixed some bugs

New in DVDStyler 2.7 (Feb 22, 2014)

  • 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

New in DVDStyler 2.6 (Nov 14, 2013)

  • 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

New in DVDStyler 2.6 RC 2 (Oct 26, 2013)

  • added support of ffmpeg audio filters (see https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html)
  • fixed upmix to 5.1
  • fixed calculation of borders for keeping aspect ratio

New in DVDStyler 2.6 RC 1 (Oct 14, 2013)

  • added possibility to specify output directory
  • updated ffmpeg to version 2.0.1

New in DVDStyler 2.6 Beta 2 (Sep 21, 2013)

  • added slideshow transitions
  • loop slideshow audio
  • added command line options "temp", "iso" and "device"

New in DVDStyler 2.6 Beta 1 (Aug 26, 2013)

  • added displaying of progress by loading files
  • added printing of the title size information in log

New in DVDStyler 2.5.2 (Aug 19, 2013)

  • added log file
  • fixed loading of project with video buttons

New in DVDStyler 2.5 (Jul 13, 2013)

  • 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

New in DVDStyler 2.5 RC 2 (Jul 1, 2013)

  • added possibility to set "default chapter length" to 0 to disable creation of chapters

New in DVDStyler 2.5 RC 1 (Jun 17, 2013)

  • added frame spin controls
  • added disc capacity "CD 700MB"

New in DVDStyler 2.5 Beta 4 (Jun 17, 2013)

  • redesigned chapters and cell properties dialogs
  • added Hungarian translation of DVDStyler Guide

New in DVDStyler 2.5 Beta 3 (Apr 8, 2013)

  • added possibility to justify text left/right

New in DVDStyler 2.4.3 (Apr 8, 2013)

  • fixed rendering of video buttons
  • fixed initialization of auto-execute flag
  • added Spanish (Argentina) translation

New in DVDStyler 2.4.2 (Mar 18, 2013)

  • Fixed transcoding of video files that contain first audio then video stream
  • Added check if video fit on DVD without re-encoding

New in DVDStyler 2.5 Beta 1 (Mar 18, 2013)

  • 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

New in DVDStyler 2.4.1 (Feb 19, 2013)

  • added some new templates
  • added frame 45 button and object
  • added ellipse 45 button and object
  • frame object: added possibility to display image
  • fixed some of templates: pause of menu is set to -1
  • fixed handling of subtitle streams

New in DVDStyler 2.4 (Feb 1, 2013)

  • added possibility to set subtitle opacity
  • added support of auto execute buttons
  • added 'none' naviagtion option for buttons
  • added shortcut Ctrl-A to select all menu objects
  • added audio bitrate to DVD properties
  • added "keep aspect ratio" setting to default video format configuration
  • changed type of image opacity values from decimal to percent
  • fixed calculation of DVD size if start/end time is set
  • added displaying of progress in a Windows 7 taskbar button

New in DVDStyler 2.4 RC 1 (Jan 21, 2013)

  • fixed generation of menu/slideshow with audio

New in DVDStyler 2.4 Beta 3 (Jan 15, 2013)

  • added shortcut Ctrl-A to select all menu objects
  • changed type of image opacity values from decimal to percent
  • added audio bitrate to DVD properties
  • added "keep aspect ratio" setting to default video format configuration
  • added displaying of progress in a Windows 7 taskbar button

New in DVDStyler 2.3.5 (Dec 27, 2012)

  • added new menu templates: Christmas, Winter and SnowField
  • fixed calculation of DVD size if start/end time is set
  • added Finnish translation
  • added Portuguese translation of DVDStyler Guide
  • updated libav to snapshot 2012-12-25

New in DVDStyler 2.4 Beta 2 (Dec 3, 2012)

  • added possibility to set subtitle opacity
  • added Portuguese translation of DVDStyler Guide

New in DVDStyler 2.4 Beta 1 (Nov 10, 2012)

  • added support of auto execute buttons
  • added 'none' naviagtion option for buttons
  • updated libav to snapshot 2012-11-08

New in DVDStyler 2.3.4 (Nov 7, 2012)

  • added support of auto execute buttons
  • fixed aspect ratio of slideshow images

New in DVDStyler 2.3.3 (Nov 2, 2012)

  • fixed generation of menu with audio

New in DVDStyler 2.3.2 (Oct 25, 2012)

  • updated some translations

New in DVDStyler 2.3 (Aug 27, 2012)

  • added possibility to import titles from DVD (VIDEO_TS directory)
  • added possibility to rearrange the order of VOBs in a title
  • added possibility to upmix stereo to 5.1
  • added support of PCM audio format
  • added possibility to select default title post command
  • changed behavior of "do not remultiplex"-check box and format choices
  • fixed default menu navigation
  • fixed setting of NTSC video format
  • fixed selecting of video frame from title with multiple video files
  • fixed setting of audio bitrate
  • added support of libav 0.9 / ffmpeg 0.11 and changed to use avconv tool to transcode
  • added Brazilian Portuguese translation of DVDStyler Guide (thanks to Paulo Henrique Araujo)

New in DVDStyler 2.3 RC 1 (Jul 3, 2012)

  • fixed default menu navigation
  • fixed some other bugs

New in DVDStyler 2.3 Beta 3 (Jun 25, 2012)

  • added possibility to add titles from DVD (VIDEO_TS directory)
  • added support of PCM audio format
  • fixed setting of NTSC video format
  • fixed selecting of video frame from title with multiple video files
  • fixed some other bugs

New in DVDStyler 2.3 Beta 2 (Jun 20, 2012)

  • added possibility to select default title post command
  • changed behavior of "do not remultiplex"-check box and format choices
  • fixed setting of audio bitrate

New in DVDStyler 2.2 (Jun 20, 2012)

  • added support of video buttons
  • added video frame selection dialog
  • added ellipse button with image/video frame
  • added shadow to some of buttons
  • added menu template "ocean"
  • fixed action error validation if no menus exist
  • fixed default menu navigation
  • added check of overlapping buttons
  • fixed generation of DVD without menus
  • added possibility to set audio time offset
  • added support of libav (thanks to Fabrice Coutadeur)
  • added support of wxWidgets 2.9.3
  • added Catalan translation (thanks to Rafael Ferran i Peralta)
  • added Uzbek translation (thanks to Umidjon Almasov)
  • added Turkish translation (thanks to Dursun Cemal)

New in DVDStyler 2.3 Beta 1 (Jun 5, 2012)

  • added possibility to upmix stereo to 5.1
  • changed to use avconv tool to transcode
  • added support of libav 0.9 / ffmpeg 0.11

New in DVDStyler 2.2 RC 1 (Apr 12, 2012)

  • added shadow to some of buttons
  • added menu template "ocean"
  • changed menu template "neon"
  • added Uzbek translation (thanks to Umidjon Almasov)
  • updated translations

New in DVDStyler 2.2 Beta 3 (Apr 2, 2012)

  • added check of overlapping buttons
  • fixed generation of DVD without menus
  • added possibility to set audio time offset
  • added support of libav (thanks to Fabrice Coutadeur)
  • added support of wxWidgets 2.9.3

New in DVDStyler 2.2 Beta 2 (Jan 16, 2012)

  • added ellipse button with image
  • merged buttons text and text-shadow and etc.
  • fixed action error validation if no menus exist
  • fixed default menu navigation
  • added Catalan translation (thanks to Rafael Ferran i Peralta)

New in DVDStyler 2.1 (Dec 21, 2011)

  • added support of SVG images
  • added support of SVG blur filter
  • added new button: shadow frame
  • added 5 new backgrounds (thanks to Tobias Holm)
  • fixed displaying of multiple spaces
  • fixed multiplexing the subtitles
  • fixed support of multi-core processors
  • updated ffmpeg to version 0.8.7

New in DVDStyler 2.1 Beta 2 (Nov 30, 2011)

  • fixed displaying of multiple spaces
  • fixed some bugs
  • updated ffmpeg to version 0.8.7

New in DVDStyler 2.1 Beta 1 (Nov 23, 2011)

  • added support of SVG images
  • added support of SVG blur filter
  • fixed multiplexing the subtitles
  • added new button: shadow frame
  • updated ffmpeg to version 0.8.6

New in DVDStyler 2.0.1 (Nov 16, 2011)

  • updated some translations

New in DVDStyler 2.0 (Oct 24, 2011)

  • added full support of video background
  • added using of anti-aliasing for buttons
  • added storing of custom colours in the colour selection dialog
  • added support of multiline buttons
  • added possibility to change order of titles and menus per drag and drop
  • added possibility to select multiply menu objects
  • added option to keep aspect ratio of background image/video
  • added audio properties dialog
  • added possibility to change audio volume
  • added saving of ISO file name in the project file
  • added new menu template
  • added background "penguin" (thanks to Henrique Barone)
  • added support of Avisynth
  • updated ffmpeg to version 0.8.3

New in DVDStyler 2.0 RC 2 (Oct 9, 2011)

  • fixed some bugs

New in DVDStyler 2.0 RC 1 (Sep 20, 2011)

  • added possibility to change order of titles and menus per drag and drop
  • added possibility to select multiply menu objects
  • added new menu template
  • updated ffmpeg to version 0.8.3

New in DVDStyler 2.0 Beta 2 (Aug 16, 2011)

  • added option to keep aspect ratio of background image/video
  • updated ffmpeg to version 0.8.2
  • added support of Avisynth

New in DVDStyler 1.9.0 Beta 1 (Jul 27, 2011)

  • added using of anti-aliasing for buttons
  • added storing of custom colors in the color selection dialog
  • added support of multiline buttons
  • updated ffmpeg to version 0.8

New in DVDStyler 1.8.3 (Apr 3, 2011)

  • added option to keep aspect ratio of video
  • added possibility to cut video
  • added possibility to select fill, outline and shadow color of subtitles
  • added possibility to add/remove single images in slideshow
  • added support of NTSC film
  • updated dvdauthor to version 0.7.0

New in DVDStyler 1.8.3 Release 2 (Feb 24, 2011)

  • Updated some translations