Which recommended sw to burn videos?

Background: After much struggle (and HELP from the people on the forum.....THANK YOU) with Pre8 to create my video that includes music, photos, and audio, I was unable to burn a DVD from Pre8. It crashed (system reboot) after encoding reached 96%. After researching the forum, this seems to be a popular problem from 2 years back, I followed the steps of burning the video to my pc at NTSC DVD standard. I can view it using Windows Movie Maker. (I tried to view with windows media player but there is no sound.) My questions are:
1. which sw or app is recommended to burn to a DVD that will include all the media (music, audio, photos) together?
2. Will I be able to add a DVD menu before burning?
3. What aspect ratio? I want to burn it at 16:9 so I can view on HDTV. If I do this, will I also be able to view it on a laptop?
     - the video burned to the pc is at:
       Size: 428MB
       Frame Width: 720
       Frame Height: 480
4. My pc has Roxio Creator 9. Could I use this? If so, would I copy as data disc?
Please advise.

Also, burning to a folder offers another advantage if you want to burn another DVD later on....
Let's say you used PrE to burn directly to DVD (instead of to a folder) and 2 years later you want to burn another copy (perhaps your DVD gets lost or damaged? Visiting in-law? Who knows?)
You'd have several things working against you.
Unlike programs like Word, PrE is generally not backwards compatible. If you save a project with PrE v7, you'd better plan on using PrE v7 to re-open that project. If you upgraded to PrE v9 and didn't keep PrE v7 around, you'd probably be out of luck.
Let's say you do have the correct PrE version still around and can still open your project. You also need to ensure all of the video, audio, and other assets used by your project are still around (preferably in the exact same location). If you've deleted the original source footage, you can't re-burn your DVD, even if the project itself is still around. Some of this can be made easier by the Project > Archive function.
You have to go through the lengthy encoding process all over again.
And hope it doesn't stall at 96% again
On the other hand, if you've burned to a folder, all you need to do to create a new copy is point any DVD-burning program (version doesn't matter) to the saved folder and click "Burn". No re-encoding needed. No source files needed. You don't even need Premiere.
Also, the folder takes up relatively little room (4.7GB max, often less).

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