Me and my friends all use Nero 6.6 for regular burning( cd and dvd data etc..) and use Nero Recode with AnyDVD for burning DVD movies and such. If you intend to burn DVD videos you 'could' use DVD Shrink 3.2 as a free alternative and does a pretty good job. Occasionally ill use CloneDVD 3 for movies. For watching movies i use WinDVD 7 and occasionally PowerDVD 6.
I hope I don't get lynched here for making a software question on a hardware forum, but how do you split mpegs into two files, so you can burn large movies to dvd?
i dont know of any programs thatll do that but try a google search or i think nero vision express does that! hang on, didnt your DVD-RW come with editing software?
im really tired as ive spend 5 hours on these forums but try these http://www.boilsoft.com/ http://www.kaksoft.com/ http://www.zealotsoft.net/ http://www.media4pc.com/mpeg-split/ i just did a quick google search so i dont if they work or how good they are!
did you buy an OEM version? if so then thats why you didnt get software/cables or anything. Also try DeepBurner as another burning program if you didnt get any with it.