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DeVeDe is a nice program (I reviewed it in the mini-reviews section sometime ago) - it's dead simple to use, and you get a nice result at the other end. 

i did quite a bit of further testing and in my case the final video quality didn't end up being very good so I reverted to DVD flick (good quality, but no menus >:().

This could have been because of the source files I was using (I had more than the program could handle, so I had to kludge them together), or because the app (apparently) converts the source into a common format before encoding (too many conversions), or simply because i didn't know what I was doing... 

This isn't to say that DeVeDe isn't a good tool (it is), or that it won't work for you (only one way to find out  :P), only that ultimately it fell short for me

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I am a little surprised that no one has mentioned ConvertX to DVD, Video DVD Maker, or DVD Flick.-KenR (June 18, 2009, 11:16 PM)
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I did actually try ConvertX to DVD way back when it first came out but I found I had much more control over the output with WinAVI so I kind of stuck with that - it might of been seriously upgraded since then though so that's one reason why I didn't mention it, (the other is I forgot :) )

Arrghh!  My brain hurts!

Yes I also tried Video DVD Maker Free but again, compared to the control I had over the final product using discrete programs, (DVDLab and one of the encoders I mentioned), I never really progressed past trying it.

I also tried DVDAuthorGUI:
The gui is meant to be an easy means to create a basic DVD.
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My brain must have been on holiday at that point because it drove me crazy after about 10 minutes and I gave up.  Read: I couldn't do what I wanted easily and gave up.

Addendum: BTW, I have yet to see over the years since DVD players first appeared, any DVD player that won't play a straight MPEG1 or MPEG2 file directly off of a disc.  So if you're not concerned with fancy menus or chapter points you can try just encoding your various clips to MPEG2 format using Avidemux and then just writing them to a DVD as files with .mpg extensions.

MilesAhead:
I've used DVDAuthorGUI over the past few years. It's a bit different.  When I used it often, I had chapter text files with the chapter times, such as 8 minutes apart, 10, 15, and just pasted the times into the chapter window.  It has some quirks.  Adding titles that are demuxed into video and audio is straight-forward, but you can also use .mpg files that have navpacks.  As with subtitles, it looks like originally supported file types were put in first, then later additional file types were added but you have to drop the list down to see them.  A bit weird until you know the other file types are there.  Still, it's an easy way to author esp. if you don't care about motion menus and just want to take .mpg output from QuEnc or something similar.(another free converter btw QuEnc .. based on ffmpeg.)

On the .mpg playback, maybe players are better now at handling data DVDs but I've had players that would only play the first .mpg file in the list.  After that it hangs.  Maybe it's fixed in the new players.  But if you have an .mpg with navpacks, it's easy to author with DVDAuthorGUI or SVCD2DVD(not free but good for some tasks, esp. taking SVCD input and authoring standard DVD from it.. not so much call for that as there used to be, and the author not being dumb added .avi to mpg conversion. The good thing about SVCD2DVD is if the mpg is good as it is, it just authors without reencoding.)

On all these converters there seems to be one or two formats that make them choke and it varies by tool.  So it's a good idea to have 3 or 4.  For fast it's tough to beat FAVC esp. if you have a quad core.  FAVC comes with QuEnc, already mentioned, and another free converter, HC Encode.
You can set it to launch as many video converter instances as you have cores.  It splits up the input file into that many pieces and encodes each piece on a core.  Kicks ass... although at times you can get muxing spikes.  Not sure why.  Seems to work best if you only feed it one input file. The other downer is it looks like v. 1.07 is the last in the list.  Haven't seen Mr Odwin around anywhere.  Maybe he had to actually make some money someplace. :)

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On the .mpg playback, maybe players are better now at handling data DVDs but I've had players that would only play the first .mpg file in the list.-MilesAhead (June 19, 2009, 12:47 AM)
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We have a better class of cheap Chinese imports here in Australia  :P

Plus I only write ISO9660/UDF format DVDs, (data and video), so the player never has to deal with foreign formats like Toilet...err...Joliet.

The only problem I've ever had is with the player not liking the DVD brand.

MerleOne:
I personally rely on ConvertXtoDVD from VSO to master DVD when the source is not mpeg2 and DVD compliant.  A reencoding is then required.  For mpeg2 and DVD compliant sources, I either use VideoRedoTVSuite or TMPGEnc 3.  All those are shareware, TMPGEnc is rather expensive.

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