I'd recommend Nero over Easy CD Creator. Nero is more powerful and doesn't mess about with your system like Easy CD Creator does. It could be all fixed now but when I've tried it before, it did funny things to the ASPI layer. The changes would break other software that needed low level access to the CD drive.

I use my drive mainly for backing up so I've not tried to burn a DVD video disc so can't really give any recommendations for that.