On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:11:04 -0500, J. Clarke wrote:
Nobody has asserted that Windows Movie Maker will burn DVDs.
Its function is to edit video files. That is all it does.
You need a different product to organize those files

Hi John,

It's OK now. I appreciate the clarification (and I apologize if I didn't
understand initially).

I think we totally agree on the main points. I somehow thought when I asked
for a 1:1 freeware replacement for Sonic MyDVD that the suggested Microsoft
Windows Movie Maker might be a perfect fit. That's all. Hence I was
confused.

I now know, and I think we all agree, that to replace the major
functionality of Sonic MyDVD, we'd need to add two additional software
actions to the output from Windows MovieMaker, the first to "organize" the
output from Windows Movie Maker into DVD-Video format files, and the second
to burn those DVD-Video format files to good-quality DVD media.

For me, the first freeware choice of those two programs would be:
1. Feed JPEG + MP3 + MOV into Windows MovieMaker, then feed that to
2. DVD Flick - To convert to 4.7 GB DVD-Video format, then feed that to
3. ImgBurn - To burn the results to single-layer 4.7GB DVD media

The good news is we now all agree on what Microsoft Windows MovieMaker does
and doesn't do - and, we can agree, it's certainly not a 1:1 replacement to
Sonic MyDVD, but, in defense of Windows Movie Maker, by adding this
additional key functionality, it probably would be a decent replacement.

Thanks for all your insight; it is much appreciated.