DVD Authoring Apps
Ensuring that your DVD can play in a consumer DVD player is a process known as DVD authoring. Being that it has to meet an official specification set out by the DVD Forum, you must use specialized software that can do so. Luckily, you have several free options, such as DVD Flick and DVDStyler. For users that have MAGIX Vegas Pro, that can also be used to author DVDs for use in personal DVD players.
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MAGIX Vegas Pro
VEGAS Pro 15 Edit – Steam Edition provides you with state-of-the-art editing tools in a streamlined, logical interface, allowing for full creative freedom for your professional...
Nero Burning ROM
Nero Burning ROM, commonly called just Nero, is an optical disc authoring program. As of version 6, the program has been a part of Nero software suite.
DVD Flick
Discontinued
As of Oct 2015, the project seems to be abandoned and the installed versions do not function. Last version, 1.3.0.7, released in June 2009, can be still downloaded from SourceForge
DVD Flick aims to be a simple but at the same time powerful DVD Authoring tool.
Burn
Burn is a free optical disc authoring application with a simple interface that offers a lot of advanced options.
Ashampoo Burning Studio
Ashampoo Burning Studio is compact, fast and amazingly easy to use. You just choose from a list of tasks and the software guides you through every step.
DVDStyler
DVDStyler is a cross-platform free DVD authoring application for the creation of professional-looking DVDs.
Roxio Toast
The easiest way to burn CDs, DVDs or Blu-ray discs. Copy discs with one click, compress & convert video. Expand your iTunes library with web audio capture.
Corel VideoStudio
Corel VideoStudio Pro is an all-in-one video-editing software for creating high-quality HD and standard-definition movies, slide shows and DVDs.
Adobe Media Encoder CC
Adobe Media Encoder is a standalone video encoding application for Adobe After Effects or Adobe Premiere Pro.
WinX DVD Author
An easy and fast way to create home video DVD from video files, camcorder, webcam, Youtube and personalize it with DVD chapter menu & subtitle (*.srt)
iDVD
Discontinued
iDVD was no longer preinstalled on Macs shipping with OS X 10.7 Lion, and was not available on the Mac App Store with all of the other iLife apps.
Create your own DVD in less time than it takes to watch one.
AVStoDVD
AVStoDVD is a flexible tool to convert various media formats to DVD compliant streams and burn them into a highly compatible multiple tracks DVD.
Video to Video Converter
Video to Video Converter is a free portable program for Windows that leaves little to be desired when it comes to that process.
FairUse Wizard
• Easily create movies that will play on your standalone player with the DivX and XviD codecs
VobBlanker
VobBlanker is a tool able to blank, replace, cut and strip titles from a DVD while maintaining the overall layout, including menu and navigation.
ffmpegX
Discontinued
Most recent update was in 2011.
ffmpegX is a Mac OS X graphic user interface designed to easily operate more than 20 powerful Unix open-source video and audio processing tools including FFmpeg, the "hyper fast video and audio encoder".
Nero Video
Video editing at its best! Edit home videos and photos to a higher level with this video software with enhanced video effects | Nero Video 11
Womble MPEG Video Wizard DVD
Womble MPEG Video Wizard DVD is the latest MPEG editor with DVD authoring and full AC-3 encoder support, and it includes all the features and functionality of its predecessors ---...
Cisdem DVD Burner
Cisdem DVD Burner is great DVD burning software with more functionality but fewer steps to master than iDVD.
Adobe Encore
Discontinued
Adobe Encore was bundled with 
Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. While Premiere Pro CC moved to the 
Adobe Creative Cloud , Encore was discontinued. Last version, Adobe Encore CS6, was released in April 2012.
A DVD authoring software tool produced by Adobe Systems and targeted at professional video producers.
DVD-lab
Too many DVD authoring packages on the market are restrictive, forcing the user to use pre-set DVD templates which might not suit a variety of situations.
Express Burn
Express Burn is a DVD and CD burner that burns audio, mp3 and data CDs. It seamlessly burns audio to CD to play on your computer, car or home stereo system converting many audio formats automatically.