DVD encoding/burning on XP... for free??

[Rosco]

Anybody know of a software solution for XP that will encode and burn video DVDs?

Its for my sister so freeware/open-source is the preferred option, I'm installing a DVD-burner drive to her PC tonight but I doubt she'll know that its not as simple as just having a drive.  Would be great if there is a free app that has an uber-foolproof interface... she'll need it

I normally use Nero or Windows DVD Maker but the latter is for Vista/7 only

I looked at DeepBurner but the free edition doesn't seem to do DVD video encoding

any suggestions?

[robwhizz]

In what way do you need to encode the video? What's the source?

[Rosco]

from MPEG, AVI etc stored on her hard-drive to DVD video (i.e. can be played in a normal living-room DVD player)

[Stealth]

Ive found it easier to buy a cheap dvd player from asda/tesco with xvid or vidx support then you just need to burn the mpeg and avi files to disk.

[Chris H]

Will this do it? http://www.videohelp.com/tools/ImgBurn

Failing that boot a live linux from usb.

[Rosco]

Thanks all, it was a DVD authoring program rather than just a program that burns encoded DVD streams to disc... basically a free Nero Vision

Has to be simple, cos my sibling is

I've just found http://www.dvdflick.net/ which looks pretty decent for converting and burning MPEG/AVI etc to a living-room friendly DVD