Best way to do LOW RES export

I have 1 hour and 26 minutes of DV in my timeline.
What is the best way to fit all this media in a DVD as a data file?
Should I do a self contained QT movie export? Or is there another compressor that might be better to squeeze all this on a 4.7 GB DVD.
Thanks!

To answer this properly, one would need to know the purpose of this output. Where will it be played? Why not make it a playable DVD? That simply creates MPEG2 data files.
The answer is that there are codecs that can store 1 1/2 hours in 4.7 gigs, Sorenson is one, H.264 is another, but why do you want to do this? I would use Compressor to do the job if doing H.264 and Sorenson Squeeze for the Sorenson codec.
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