It can, at least, create a DVD that will play on the console DVD players I have available to me, and not all DVD authoring programs I’ve tested can boast 1 that. The app is there, it’s functional (more or less), and I need a produced DVD with navigable scenes-something DVD Maker was designed to do and does well enough. In my case, I’m to cheap to buy nicer software. In his case, he was too dauntless to avoid a challenge.
I use Windows DVD Maker for a reason similar to why Sir George Mallory climbed (or, more accurately, attempted) Mount Everest: because it’s there. Let me start by answering your first question. Leaving it out alleviated whatever problem existed. I had a video file that was too short, apparently.