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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.

47 Responses to “Cyberlink PowerDVD All Black Skin”
  1. Dong
     

    Good

  2. satheesh
     

    good

  3. DJ Simonz
     

    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
     

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

  5. Shahin
     

    Not bad

  6. Lena
     

    thnx god

  7. Charis
     

    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
     

    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
     

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

  10. LS Grant
     

    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
     

    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
     

    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
     

    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
     

    Thanks for the skin. Perfect!

  15. buzz
     

    Absolutely fabulous! EXACTLY what I was looking for!

  16. Arian
     

    Thanks for .cool skin

  17. Ferdinando
     

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

  18. noli
     

    black is beautifull

  19. noli
     

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

  20. Herby
     

    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
     

    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
     

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

  23. john
     

    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
     

    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
     

    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
     

    koooooooooooool man its damn kool skin
    u have done well.

  27. ARAD
     

    That’s Good

  28. Essam
     

    perfect thank you ,hope more like this

  29. Jesse
     

    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
     

    not bad, thanxx :)

  31. gopu
     

    its nice,thanks

  32. Tanabe
     

    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
     

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

  34. Leonardus
     

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

  35. cgcggcfhg
     

    perfect

  36. mohsen
     

    i need skin power dvd
    thank you

  37. John Allen
     

    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
     

    nice skin, i hated that skin

  39. zrant
     

    Excellent!!! Thank You wery much! I hated the program only because of this ugly stupid smiling girl. An I always prefer black!!! Perfect!!!
    Yeah!!!

  40. Nathan
     

    For most of my media I just use Klite Codec pack which comes with Media Player Classic. It is the best.

  41. Bob
     

    Thank you for the great skin! The original smily girl was soooo ugly. And where did she learn how to hold a disc?

    One thing, though… The Black.dll skin changes the size of the random access slider but only lets you select about 75% of the way across before deselecting the control. Not a big deal, but sometimes you might want to randomly access a DVD near the end of the program.

    You can download the fixed version here (for a while). I hope that someone will be able to post it somewhere more permanent if you find it useful.

    http://www.spacemedia.com/PowerDVD/Black.dll

  42. Bob
     

    Forgot to mention in my last post that the random access slider issue only appears at 1280×1024 resolution. The fix addresses that.

  43. Nathan
     

    I updated my zip. Thx.

  44. nikhil
     

    thats just great… good workkkkk>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

  45. hossein esmaeli
     

    I updated my zip. Thx.

  46. BobBr
     

    Thanks for all the skins. Concerning the “upgrade” to V 9 / Ultra:

    **** S T A Y A W A Y***

    In addition to the idiotic “moovie” crap (which you cannot completely get rid of–Cyberlink told me so), due to all of the “social networking” bullshit that’s been added * V9 KEEPS A DETAILED RECORD OF EVERYTHING THAT YOU WATCH*. If you have installed V9 and doubt this, look in the CyberLink folder under My Documents.

    I’ve uninstalled V9 and reverted to V7. I don’t plan to go beyond V7 until CyberLink come to their senses. I’ve already told them so. I suggest that everyone else should do the same.


    Bob

  47. Signwav
     

    WOW! What a touch of class. That is so much better that that fugly red.
    Thanks!

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