Burning (Copying) a movie to a DVD is a violation of copyright laws.

That said - most commercial DVD's contain far in excess of the amount of data that can be stored on a single layer DVD. Dual Layer DVD's are expensive and it is typically cheaper to just buy the movie.

Look into Roxio's Easy Media Creator 7.5--will do just about anything with CD's and DVD's. Go to the Roxio site and see what it can do.

Ken

There are a number of packages that can do this for you,  and which you use depends upon how much you want to do and how "commercial" you want your finished discs to look.

Nero Burning ROM has DVD support in the newer releases.  With that you can select to make a DVD project and drag/drop your AVI or MPG file onto the comilation and create a video DVD.  You can go with a more elaborate package like Intervideo's WinDVD Creator, or Pinnacle Studio,  or Sonic MyDVD.  All of those support capturing video in from a source, editing it,  and then creating a video disc with some basic menuing.  Lastly,  you can get much higher-end packages like the Sony Vegas+DVD Architect bundle which allows near commercial quality editing and DVD creation (at a fairly steep price tag too).

I have used all of the above at some point and they each fit well for certain tasks.  For simple copying form VHS to DVD,  you don't need much more than a capture device and the Sonic MyDVD with it's "real-time" capture/burn functionality.