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Cyberlink PowerDVD All Black Skin

October 25th, 2006

In Cyberlink PowerDVD I’ve always hated how they have not had a skin that was just all black. It really is annoying because when you are watching a DVD and the show ends you have to look at a stupid background picture. If you have all the lights turned off that background picture can even hurt your eyes. Sometimes I will watch something before I goto bed and when the show is over I have to get up to turn off the monitor because it is too bright.

After some searching on Google, I came across some awesome skins for PowerDVD 7 created by Herby. One of the skins called “Not Alone” (The theme song of The 4400) was the closest thing I could get to an all black theme. I really think Cyberlink PowerDVD is an all together ugly piece of software, especially with all the Upgrade/Activate junk all throughout their settings dialog and the lame skins they have to choose from. I finally got fed up with PowerDVD’S fugliness and downloaded a resource editor and changed the “Not Alone” skin so that it was all in black.

If anybody is interested, you can download it here.

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38 Responses to “Cyberlink PowerDVD All Black Skin”
  1. Dong Says:
    November 20th, 2006 at 9:59 am

    Good

  2. satheesh Says:
    April 3rd, 2007 at 8:39 am

    good

  3. DJ Simonz Says:
    April 13th, 2007 at 8:31 pm

    haha, hey man! I was searching around the net just now specifically for a fix on the ugly skins cyberlink provides. So cool you made the bg black…that pic of the girl on v7.0 just looks like ugly betty from the us sitcom.

    Nice work dude!

  4. darklich Says:
    August 21st, 2007 at 11:52 pm

    Perfect. Sanity restored again. That v7 girls smile is like fingernails on chalkboard. Thanks for your effort.

  5. Shahin Says:
    September 24th, 2007 at 12:42 pm

    Not bad

  6. Lena Says:
    October 14th, 2007 at 3:46 am

    thnx god

  7. Charis Says:
    October 18th, 2007 at 1:03 pm

    Thanks for sharing. I was searching the web for another skin that wasn’t so unattractive (all those logos and such). Yours is perfect. I downloaded it and it looks great! Thanks again.

  8. Paul Says:
    November 22nd, 2007 at 11:10 pm

    Beautiful! Thanks for sharing. I’ve always hated their default skin. And the red always temporarily burns in my screen (I fear a permanent burn in if I keep using it) plus I agree it’s hard on the eyes. too bright. and those lame ads. this is perfect!

  9. kriss Says:
    November 26th, 2007 at 5:58 pm

    very nice..i love it..great job!!

  10. LS Grant Says:
    December 7th, 2007 at 10:56 am

    Thanks for the elegant plain black background! The cyberlink girl looks a lot like my former accountant, who disapproved of my non business related computer hobby! I surely don’t want to see her each time I play a BD or HD disc!!

  11. SilverSurfer Says:
    December 8th, 2007 at 12:49 pm

    How did you change this in the resource editor? Which resource should one replace if they want to make their own skin? Thanks in advance!

  12. Nathan Says:
    December 8th, 2007 at 7:49 pm

    I used: http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/ You have to open up the dll which contains the skin and edit it. You’ll have to figure the rest out for yourself.

  13. Ben Says:
    December 9th, 2007 at 12:13 am

    Thanks. This is awesome. The default skin is quite unprofessional and this all black, simple powerdvd skin is exactly what I was looking for.

  14. Radiophile Says:
    December 16th, 2007 at 12:50 pm

    Thanks for the skin. Perfect!

  15. buzz Says:
    January 10th, 2008 at 9:34 pm

    Absolutely fabulous! EXACTLY what I was looking for!

  16. Arian Says:
    January 18th, 2008 at 6:43 am

    Thanks for .cool skin

  17. Ferdinando Says:
    January 20th, 2008 at 2:24 pm

    Obrigado pelo download, quando tiver mais, favor me contactar, ok!?!

  18. noli Says:
    January 29th, 2008 at 12:53 pm

    black is beautifull

  19. noli Says:
    January 29th, 2008 at 12:57 pm

    coz”i like black color and im very thanks that you had

  20. Herby Says:
    February 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 am

    Hmmm,.. Not Alone is one of the modified skins by me, it’s not included with PowerDVD.

    Differences between these and the default skins (Mercury & Onyx): Smaller Taskbar Mode
    Removed: DVD logo, Feature Icons, Cyberlink logo’s, Colour themes & the Upgrade button.
    Changed the AutoHideDuration (Fullscreen) to 1000 (= 1 second) instead of 3000, replaced the Backgrounds, changed the Step backward and Step forward buttons and commands to Rewind and Fast forward.

    http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=466767

  21. Nathan Says:
    February 2nd, 2008 at 12:18 pm

    My mistake I thought it was included with PowerDVD pro or something and it was being made available on that site. You did a really good job on those skins. I modified the post to give you credit. Thanks.

  22. virgal Says:
    February 4th, 2008 at 9:59 pm

    thank for all blank power dvd
    this is very cool ,i have ever seen

  23. john Says:
    February 21st, 2008 at 2:01 pm

    that stupid default skin gave my monitor sever screen burn. now i have that power dvd logo permanently imprinted in my monitor. is there a way to fix this?

  24. Robert Says:
    February 23rd, 2008 at 8:25 am

    No matter about the photo of the girl, or the color of the screen, the all black skin you have given us provides an opportunity for us to relax and enjoy our movies without advertisements and bright red. Kudos!

  25. Matt Says:
    May 4th, 2008 at 10:31 am

    Nice one, thank you for taking the time and effort to publish this.
    It’s a relief to get that insanely grinning woman off my television once and for all, What was Cyberlink thinking ??

  26. mani Says:
    May 26th, 2008 at 1:47 pm

    koooooooooooool man its damn kool skin
    u have done well.

  27. ARAD Says:
    June 12th, 2008 at 6:30 am

    That’s Good

  28. Essam Says:
    July 4th, 2008 at 3:02 am

    perfect thank you ,hope more like this

  29. Jesse Says:
    July 5th, 2008 at 10:40 am

    If someone could modify the blonde chick by adding a goatee beard and a lit joint or smoking a hog? That’d be a good skin to keep, too. Send that one to Cyberlink. :)

    Nathan, yoda-man!

  30. navees Says:
    August 5th, 2008 at 9:59 am

    not bad, thanxx :)

  31. gopu Says:
    September 10th, 2008 at 11:59 am

    its nice,thanks

  32. Tanabe Says:
    September 19th, 2008 at 10:55 pm

    THANK you. Every time I reinstall this I realize I had forgotten how horribly ugly it is. Like a Playskool toy or something. hehe.

  33. Sean Menefee Says:
    September 22nd, 2008 at 8:07 am

    Thank the lord for the plain black Power DVD theme. You made my week chief!

  34. Leonardus Says:
    December 27th, 2008 at 3:03 pm

    I where also looking for some nice skins for PowwerDVD
    Those skins are awesome :-P
    Thanks ,it makes using PowerDVD better

  35. cgcggcfhg Says:
    January 27th, 2009 at 3:50 pm

    perfect

  36. mohsen Says:
    February 24th, 2009 at 3:02 am

    i need skin power dvd
    thank you

  37. John Allen Says:
    May 24th, 2009 at 1:01 am

    These modified PowerDVD skins are still really useful – if you thought the native PowerDVD 7 screen was bad, wait until you see PowerDVD 9 with its MoovieLive advert. Stick to PowerDVD 7, use one of the black skins and your eyes will thank you.

  38. Silent Says:
    June 8th, 2009 at 11:09 am

    nice skin, i hated that skin

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