Orion Studios is officially the only DVD Software Player in the World that carries VST technology for DVD playback in Windows! The development team has worked over a year on preparing the DirectDVD engine to work alongside with VST plug-ins.

The Concept and idea is basic to the core, VST in DVD, is the perfect and most acceptable format for (2)-(6.1) playback of DVD AC3 Audio. Using VST plug-ins allows users to experience over 32,000 effects available online (most are free) . With DirectDVD it is as simple as click and load your VST .dll directly into the VST Manager.

What is a VST Plug-In?

In the widest possible sense a VST Plug-In is an audio process. A VST Plug-In is not an application. It needs a host application that handles the audio streams and makes use of the process the VST Plug-In supplies.

Generally speaking, it can take a stream of audio data, apply a process to the audio and send the result back the host application. A VST Plug-In performs its process normally using the processor of the computer, it does not necessarily need dedicated digital signal processors. The audio stream is broken down into a series of blocks. The host supplies the blocks in sequence. The host and its current environment control the block-size. The VST Plug-In maintains all parameters statuses that refer to the running process: The host does not maintain any information about what the Plug-In did with the last block of data it processed.

From the host application’s point of view, a VST Plug-In is a black box with an arbitrary number of inputs, outputs (Midi or Audio), and associated parameters. The Host needs no knowledge of the Plug-In process to be able to use it.

The Plug-In process can use whatever parameters it wishes, internally to the process, but it can choose to allow the changes to user parameters to be automated by the host, if the host application wishes to do so.

The source code of a VST Plug-In is platform independent, but the delivery system depends on the platform architecture.

On the Windows platform, a VST Plug-In is a multi-threaded DLL (Dynamic Link Library).

On Mac OS X , a VST Plug-In is a Bundle. You define the plug's name in the plist.info file with the CFBundleName key. It is also possible to use the old Mac OS 9 format (see below) on OS X, but it is not recommended.
On Mac OS 9 , it's a raw Code resource. Note that the plug's name as seen by the user is the resource name (not the file name). A folder labeled 'VstPlugIns' is searched for plugs, this should preferably be installed in the System Folder. Applications should additionally search the application folder.

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With DirectDVD you have the capability to insert both, Visual and non-visual VST Plug-ins! If your looking to create your own effects - we would suggest you take a look at SynthEdit- a Visual Designer of VST Plug-Ins-

About SynthEdit-
SynthEdit is a Modular Synthesiser for Windows (Win 98 or better).
 With SynthEdit you can design your own Synth from the ground up.  Drag and drop modular components, connect them with virtual "patch cords".

Check out SynthEdit at http://www.synthedit.com

Please do refer to the Help files on inserting your own Effects- You can distribute/Sell your Filters/Effects to other users by simply installing your plug-ins directly into folders in DirectDVD- DirectDVD will auto install any effect in these folders-