Document Note: 

This is a "how to" on successfully creating viewable videos on a Linux based computer 
and then burn to DVD using composite output from a digital video camera.

There are other ways of doing this task.
This is a no thrills, very simple layout.

Using Linux:

Grab the newest tools

streamer -- http://Linux.bytesex.org/xawtv/index.html
lav2wav, lav2yuv, mpeg2enc, mp2enc, mplex -- http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/
dvdauthor -- http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/
mplayer (to watch) -- http://www.mplayerhq.hu


Note for wide screen American DVDs:

The basic DVD video format of a Region 1 DVD is MPEG-2, 720x480 resolution, 29.97 frames per
second, and 48kHz MPEG-2 audio at 224 kilobits per second.  


Following steps from the command line to make a very simple 15 min wide screen DVD:

1)  Record to avi compressed file using standard DVD quality wide screen.

streamer -t 15:00 -s 720x480 -o movie.avi -b 64 -f mjpeg -F stereo -R 48000 -r 29.97 -n ntsc -c /dev/video0 -i composite

2)  Next layout the audio from the avi

lav2wav +p movie.avi | mp2enc -o audio.mp2

3)  Convert to Video into DVD compatible

lav2yuv -P 16:9 +p movie.avi | mpeg2enc -f 8 -o video.m1v

4)  Now create the mpg that will become the DVD movie

mplex audio.mp2 video.m1v -o movie.mpg -f 8

5)  Next create the DVD ISO

mkdir DVD
dvdauthor -o DVD movie.mpg     
dvdauthor -T DVD
mkisofs -dvd-video -o DVD.iso DVD

6) then burn the ISO. pretty darn simple. ;)