DVDStyler vs Q DVD-Author

DVDStyler is a DVD authoring application for creating video discs with menus designed for playback on standalone DVD players. Start with a template or build a menu by arranging buttons, text, images, and other objects. The software can make photo slideshows and add multiple subtitle and audio tracks. It supports formats including AVI, MOV, MP4, MPEG, OGG, WMV, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, Xvid, MP2, MP3, and AC-3, among others. MPEG and VOB files can be used without re-encoding, and files with different audio or video formats can be placed on one DVD. The interface supports drag-and-drop, and menus use scalable vector graphics. DVDStyler runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows and is distributed under the GNU General Public License. The listed macOS installer requires OS X 10.15 Catalina or later. The application is free, with no free trial listed.

Q DVD-Author is a video DVD creator and graphical frontend for dvdauthor. Users can add movie sources, make menus and submenus, and link menu buttons to videos or other menus before authoring a DVD. The project also lists photo slideshows, qslideshow, qplayer, qrender, and dvd-slideshow. Its legacy guide describes previewing an authored DVD with xine and gives a growisofs command for burning it. That guide requires MPEG-2 movie files as sources and names dvdauthor, mjpegtools, and ImageMagick++ as required tools. QDVDAuthor is available in Qt5 and Qt6, and the project links to Linux packages for Arch Linux, Debian, Mageia, OpenSUSE, and Ubuntu. Listed platforms are Linux, macOS, and Windows. The repository identifies the software as GPL-2.0 licensed, and its license text says it is distributed without warranty. The project names advanced end users as its intended audience. The listed plan, Q DVD-Author, costs nothing; there is no free trial.