Windows DVD maker? Windows Movie Maker? I'm talking about free stuff, I don't feel like paying money for it.

I haven't really used any of these but a quick search pulled these up:

Virtual dub
A powerful freeware video editor with lots of features, including a choice of compression codecs, splitting, addition of audio tracks. Excellent.
http://www.virtualdub.org/

WAX
Wax is a high performance and flexible video compositing and special effects software. The idea for Wax is to be very general purpose and flexible in video compositing and effects, so that you can compose your dream video sequence with ease everytime.
http://www.debugmode.com/wax/

Zwei-Stein
Zwei-Stein 3.01 is a freeware non-linear, non-destructive video compositing and editing system which offers many advanced features unavailable elsewhere.
With Zwei-Stein you can edit up to 256 video, audio and still image clips, each with up to 64 effects chained serially. Cropping, panning and custom effects are easy with automatic key frames.
http://www.thugsatbay.com/tab/?q=zweistein_download

About DVD Flick

DVD Flick aims to be a simple but at the same time powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take a number of video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back on your DVD player, Media Center or Home Cinema Set. You can add additional custom audio tracks, subtitles as well as a menu for easier navigation. http://www.dvdflick.net/

I am not too sure, but they all require that your pay for them. There used to be a time when "Freeware" really existed. Now it is just a bunch of debilitated sh** that wants your personal info up front.

I used to work in IT. I got out of it for this very reason: Everyone wants something for nothing. Just pay the friggin' money, move on with life, and be able to do what you need to do.

Other than that, my answer is "no" there are no free anythings.

Freeware means it is free to use without restriction, then there is shareware/trialware which means it works for a short period (often times with restriction on functionality) before requiring purchase. Open source means the code used to make the program is open to inspection and modification by anyone, it usually costs nothing, but sometimes it may sold.

That I wouldn't really know, I use sony DVD architect and sony movie maker platinum, and yes they do cost some big bucks.

http://infrarecorder.org/

http://www.imgburn.com/

http://cdburnerxp.se/

http://www.burnaware.com/burnaware_free.html