Hi,
I got a Sony laptop with DVD Writer and Click to DVD program which captures and burns movies on DVD. It's about the most easiest and robust DVD authoring applications I have ever seen. (May be not as flexible as some others though.)
The only problem - it ony allows you to write about 2-3 GBytes on 4.7 Gbytes disks. I checked all the settings and couldn't find anything about space limit.
Eugene