It would be great if you could share your experieces with Free software you have used and perhaps other member can benefit from your experieces .I do lots of DVD burning(like most of you ) and I found SONNE DVD Creator to be one of the really great free ones . I have have been using it for a couple of years with no problems .
With Sonne DVD Creator, you can create DVD by various video formats such as AVI, DivX, Xvid, MPEG, WMV, MP4, MOV, RM. And you can play the DVDs on portable or home DVD player. In addition to creating DVDs with multiple video formats, you can create DVD movies by setting NTSC or PAL video standard, 4:3 or 16:9 video aspects and 720x480/720x576 video resolutions. What's more, plenty of DVD menu templates can be selected here.
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