There are all sorts of programs out there which claim to let you author 
video DVDs. (E.g., K3b claims to be able to do this - but on closer 
inspection, it only has the ability to write files to disk. You have to 
somehow create those files yourself first.) There are freebie scripts on 
the Internet and there are shareware and commercial programs that can 
supposedly do this.

When I bought my original DVD drive, because it was Hewlett Packard it 
came bundled with some authoring software that nobody's ever heard of. 
It works though. Just about. (When you install it, it tries to discover 
whether you have a HP DVD drive in your PC - which I don't, now. You can 
get round it though.)

The package I've got allows you to take multiple AVI files, encoded with 
just about any codec known to Man, and concatenate them, possibly with 
some (rather cheesy) transitions. You can also insert static title 
frames and so on. And you can create a very simple disk menu to play the 
various chapters. Unfortunately, there's a split-second pause between 
chapters (or maybe that's just my mum's DVD player, I'm not sure).

What do other people use for putting DVDs together?

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