Burning a DVD

[Confused]

I want to burn a DVD to give as a belated christmas pressie. I popped in my blank disc and using Windows DVD Maker on Vista, added the video files I wanted to add. The problem is that the total size of the blank disc is 4.38Gb and the total size of the video files is 2.06Gb BUT it tells me that some of the files won't fit on the disc. This is really confusing me. It says I'm 61 minutes over capacity.

Is there a way to get all of these files on the disc and watch it on telly?

[orudge]

What format are the video files you're trying to burn in? DivX? Windows DVD Maker will re-encode them to MPEG-2, the format used on DVDs, which is less efficient than DivX and so on, and hence takes up more storage. This is probably why you're not able to fit it all on a single disc.

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[Confused]

Files are .mpg

The DVD is an imation DVD-R 16x 4.7Gb 2hr