Best software for fitting full length movies on to DVD?

I have Toast 6 Titanium, which i find is a great program for all my burning needs. However, recently i've been wanting to burn a few movies i have downloaded. The problem seems to be that full length movies rarely fit on to DVD. I don't really understand it as most DVD's say they can hold around 4GB of data and the movies i download are rarely over 1GB. It's just that burning them as a DVD Movie disk seems to take up an awful lot of room.
I heard there was software out there designed to compress it all down and squeeze the whole thing on to one disk and i was just wondering if that is true and which software applications out there are best for this?
Many thanks,
Steve.

I got Toast 10 just to check out that feature. Unfortunately 'Fit To DVD' is not under the DVD-Video burning section of Toast. Fit To DVD is only available as a function for copying pre-existing DVD's, I'm trying to burn a DVD from an AVI file i've downloaded from the net. I can't believe no one out there seems to know of a program that could help me out here.

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