Burning back up mp4 movies onto dvd?

space on my pc's hard drive is getting a bit low so i want to transfer dvd's that i have converted to mp4 format onto disk. but i am unable to find any options to let me do this in the windows media play. the only option i am given is to transfer the mp4 movies to cd from the file they are stored in,is it possible to do this? any advice would be greatly appreciated!

From Apple's Knowledgebase:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302758
Can I burn iTunes Music Store Videos to DVD?
You can save your iTunes Music Store movies to data DVDs for backup purposes (if you have a supported DVD burner), but these DVDs will not play in a DVD player.
So not sure if there is a way to do what you want to do.

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