I have a load of little video clips in various formats that I want to burn onto a DVD so I can play it in a normal DVD player I would like to have a basic menu at the start up so I can skip straight to a particular clip

Is there any software out there available free that can do this?

If not whats the cheapest stuff people would recommend?

Im not going to be using it loads just want to burn the occasional compilation DVD of family footage etc (maybe a mix of video clips and photo slideshows) to send to relatives abroad as part of their Xmas present, it doesnt have to be professional quality just so long as the software is easy to use
(I already have WMM6 that I can use for editing the various individual clips if I want)

There are a couple of options here – http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/gmm/fwcdburn.html

What Operating System are you using?

Vista comes with DVD maker. Works ok.

operating system – Windows 7

as pook said, DVD maker sounds like it would do what you need it to do, and it’s available on Windows 7, have you tried that?