Freeware Mission – Best Free DVD Authoring Tool

by Johnny Karp 29 July 2008 6 Comments

Yep, the Freeware Mission continues. I did some thinking today and a quick inventory of the programs that I still need for my computer, and it turns out that the Freeware Mission will have at least another 25 episodes! I’m quite happy about it so far, and I’m looking forward to discovery new interesting freeware programs. Now it’s time to pick a free DVD Authoring Tool, I need one for making DVD-Video out of some of the 2500 films in my collection (those that are stored as mpeg files).

So, I need something free, reliable and quite simple, I don’t like fancy menus and stuff like that for my DVDs. I just need a program that can make the vob files and the DVD-Video structure. After testing a few freeware applications the final choice was between DVD Flick and DVDStyler, both of them quite good free DVD Authoring Tools.

The freeware program that I’m going to keep is… DVDStyler, mostly because it has a better interface and better functionality than DVD Flick. Selecting the video file that you want to make a DVD of is as simple as it can be: drag it from the explorer window and drop it into the DVDStyler window. After that, everything is simple enough.

You can make DVD-Video out of Mpeg files and the output can be either PAL or NTSC. You also have the possibility to play around with the menus, even by adding audio to them.

You can download DVDStyler from here, it’s free!

My Evaluation	8
Operating System	Windows All, Linux
Size	5.14 MB
Author	Alex Thuering
Version Tested	1.6.2

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6 Comments »

Washington said:

DVDStyler is great, but it doesn’t support subtitles, I guess. I’ve asked on the forum, but had no responses.

# 28 December 2008 at 2:51 am

Johnny Karp (author) said:

@Washington
There is something quite odd about the subtitles support in DVD Styler. According to their website since version 1.5 beta 3 you can add subtitles. The latest versions don’t have any subtitles support. I guess this is the program’s main flaw.

# 28 December 2008 at 12:34 pm

Galo Villarán said:

Best Free DVD Authoring Tool

From where to download?

# 5 January 2009 at 8:05 pm

Johnny Karp (author) said:

http://www.dvdstyler.de/index.html
The link is in the post too

# 6 January 2009 at 2:45 am

Bilgisayarınız İçin 72 Ücretsiz Yazılım | catlakses.com said:

[...] DVD Styler – DVD yönetim aracı. PAL ve NTSC desteği var. Sürükle bırak’la mpeg dosyalarınızı DVD haline getirebilirsiniz. Linux desteği de mevcut. [...]

# 23 January 2009 at 3:26 pm