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Open DVD-Lab and have a good look at it. You have a Project Window to the left, an Assets Window underneath it (see pic) and a Work Area in the middle where you should now see Movie 1. Of course there is no Video or Audio stream loaded into Movie 1 so we will do that now. Go to the New Movie button. Now you should have a Movie 1 and a Movie 2. First however, you have to add the movie to the Assets window so right click in the assets window and click Import or click the Import Files button. Now you will be alerted immediately with how to handle the MPEG file. Allow DVD-Lab to de-multiplex the file's into elementary streams. Basically this means it will separate the Video Stream from the Audio Stream as it's easier to compile this way and will give less problems. As soon as the de-multiplexing is finished a second alert will come up telling you that the Resolution is not Standard for DVD, but ignore this alert, just click OK. Another warning about Audio you might get will tell you you need 44.1kHz audio, it will then ask if you want to transcode so do run the audio transcode. A good idea now would be to check the Project Properties and make sure you have it set to the right format (NTSC or PAL). Click Project --> Project Properties and set it. NTSC is most used in North America and Japan and PAL is most used in Europe and Australia. Now that you have this done, look at the DVD-Lab screen and you should see Movie 1 selected in the work area and if its not, Select it in the Project Window. Drag the Video Stream from the first movie from the Assets Window into the Movie 1 window. A series of thumbnail images should now appear. Now drag the Audio Stream from the Assets Window to the Movie 1 window. Do the same for the second movie except first you will have to select Movie 2 in the Project Window. Next we have to edit the Connections.
Here you just have to make sure that a few things are correct. First of all the Menu has to be selected for first play. You can drag connections with the Draw End Connections button to the left of the connections window (under the pointer which will already be selected). You can then use it to draw connections between objects. Whatever is connected to first play will be played the second the DVD loads so it should be the menu in this case. To draw the connection with the Draw End Connections button selected, click on the little dot beside first play and drag it over to the menu. This will make sure that the menu will play first. The movies don't really matter because you will be selecting them with the menu, they wont autoplay themselves. So your connections should look something like what I have on the right here. The next thing you will need to do is build a small menu. I wont go into much detail on menu building in this guide, we'll just use a template instead. I will give you the basics on how to make it work. 
To make things easier, go to the Project Window and delete Menu 1. After you have done this, click Menu --> Add from template. Make sure now to check back on the connections as DVD-Lab may now not have the Menu connected to anything. When you are adding the Template Menu, leave the menu of the title alone, and change the top text to Select Movie. Make the second piece of text the name of your first movie and the second piece of text the name of your Second Movie (see pic that accompanies this text). Now beside the menu, click the Link button (under color which is already selected). Select the Title of the first movie and you will see the Link is set to NOP. Click it and change it to the start of Movie 1. This way that button is now linked to the first movie. Now do the same for the second movie. If you did everything right, your menu will now have active button links to both of the movies. The next step now is to add chapters to the movies. 
Now if you wish you can add the chapters to the DVD, click the Movie 1 Window. Click Movie --> Auto Chapters. As you can see by the diagram, the Sensitivity is set by numbers. I find the default 220 to work fine. I haven't had much time to experiment with different quality's and brightness yet however. Set the number of chapters you wish add and click OK. You will now see DVD-Lab adding chapters to Movie 1 extremely fast with good enough accuracy. When it has finished you will now have your chapters set. Do the same thing for Movie 2. 
You are now ready to compile and burn your DVD, click Project --> Compile DVD. Here you have some more options. The Multiplexer Engine has the option of DVD Complaint and Relaxed Compliancy . I always choose the Main option (DVD Complaint) but some users, (especially those using NTSC ) have told me that its better to choose Relaxed Compliancy if you are using a non standard resolution and mp2 audio. So I will leave this option up to you, If you are using NTSC, I do suggest you select Alternative . The default output folder will be on your hard drive in a DVDVolume folder but you can change to whatever you want here too. Its actually good to get used to selecting a different folder all the time in case you accidentally over-write an existing compilation. When you are ready, click the Start button and your DVD will be Compiled. It will take some time depending on the length of your movie. When it is done you have only one thing left to do, and that's burn to disc.
If you would prefer to use Nero to burn, that is fine, but I have used DVD-Lab to burn a lot and it does a good job for me. This step is not very, or not even one bit complicated really. Select your burner and make sure DVD Video is selected. You can choose whatever Volume Name for the disc that you wish. Make sure you Input Folder is the same folder you used to Compile the DVD. Just Click Start and your DVD should begin burning in No time. However, DVD-Lab does not work very well with some burners so if it fails to burn you may be better off with Nero. 