i must say that ive been very pleased with a free program called
Burn4free. it looks a little ghetto but really gets the job done surprisingly efficiently. it also doesnt seem too rough on my computer. I can use several other progs and have a disk burning at the same time. its good for burning data and audio disks. as far as burning DVD video to a DVD so it can be played in a DVD player. i use DVD Decrypter. good luck.