You may want to burn a CD for use in a car, backup video/movies for playing on a special day or simply as a holiday activity. At other times, you may like to or burn a DVD as a family gift or souvenir. Anyway, practical and free DVD burner software will be what you are looking for. Here is a list of the best free DVD burning software review. By reading the brief introduction, You can easily pick out the best DVD burning software for your PC.

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1. ImgBurn

ImgBurn is popular and lightweight freeware supporting CDs, DVDs, HD-DVDs, and Blu-Ray burning. With the assistance of the well-designed icons such as "Write image file to disc" and "Write files/folders to disc", users are able to quickly find out how to use this program. Once a blank disc is inserted, ImgBurn will auto check the disc and guide users to burn. Besides, ImgBurn also supports disc erase and drive control.

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2. Ashampoo Burning Studio Free

Ashampoo Burning Studio Free is a functional and simple program for free DVD burning. There is no messy icon or button on the interface. By heading to proper menus, users can easily get started and burn iso/files to CD and DVD discs. You don't have to, but the paid version offers more complete features.

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3. StarBurn

StarBurn is rarely free yet powerful software for DVD burning coming with an easy-to-follow interface. It takes fairly little system resources and performs perfectly regarding ISO and CD/DVD burning. StarBurn is compatible with a wide collection of burning hardware, supporting all types of discs including CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, BD-R/RE, etc.

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4. Daemon Tools Lite

Daemon Tools Lite is publicly recommended as one of the best DVD burning freeware. Despite of its bulky size, it offers an easy way to create virtual DVD drives and import ISO image files with lots of file types supported including ISO, MDS/MDF, MDX Images (CD, DVD, Blu-Ray). It also supports discs shrink and password protection. DT and SCSI are two kinds of virtual drives provided by Daemon: DT is more commonly used while SCSI has extra signatures including security locks. Daemon itself is a safe and legal program. Just remember not to check any web browser from the CNET installer file.

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5. CDBurnerXP

CDBurnerXP is a fantastic DVD burning freeware to burn DVD or CD on Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, Win 7 and Win 8. It is easy to use, clearly designed and stable in most cases. By choosing from modules including "writing data CDs and DVDs", "creating CDs for audio playback", and "ripping music from CDs or editing ID3 tags", you can start on your DVD burning. CDBurnerXP supports burn proof, on-the-fly disc and ISO imaging burning, but does not support double-layer DVDs.

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6. BurnAware Free

BurnAware Free is a good free DVD burning program allowing users to burn music, videos, and other digital content to DVD together with audio CDs and Blu-ray Discs. The latest version (v6.6) has integrated windows 8 compatibility and shows good performances on windows 8.1. However, there is no option of floating window and there are timestamps issues reported.

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7. DVDStyler

As a cross-platform DVD creating freeware, DVDStyler is distributed under GUL (General Public License) and offers a fast & featured way to burn and author a DVD free. It supports direct MPEG-file drag & drop as well as image files. Besides, DVDStyler enables people to create NTSC/PAL menus, add text/images/buttons, customize font size/color, set background color, edit chapters (or titles) to be burned, and the like.

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8. DVDFlick

DVDFlick allows users to specify the source files (chapter by chapter) and burn one or more video/files (45 file formats, 60 video codecs, and 40 audio codecs), to a DVD disc. In addition, it supports customized audio tracks, subtitles and menu. There are 45 file formats, 60 video codecs, and 40 audio codecs supported by DVDFlick. Despite of its variety of features, however, it performs slow at times.

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If you want an all-in-one program to rip DVD, Blu-ray discs to ISO files, video/gaming folders, and burn to a new DVD/BD disc, or copy one DVD/BD to another, you can check out this fast BD/DVD Copy utility.