VIDEO FORMATS -- iPhone4 to DVD

I've got lots of short videos shot on my iPhone4, but I'm having trouble converting them to an "acceptable" format to play on a standard DVD player connected to a TV.  All I want to do is burn to DVD RW disks to give me the ability to interchange videos at will.
So many programs claim to do everything and anything related to this, but so far nothing works.  Any suggestions are hugely appreciated.  Thanks!

Are you using FCP or iDVD or something else to make the DVDs?

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