Burning Basics/Tivo Troubles

Dear Folks,
Please excuse me if this is in the wrong forum. If it is maybe someone can point me to the right one.
I started out rather naively trying to transfer programs from My Tivo and burn them using my DVD burner on my laptop. I was able to maybe do this successfully twice.
Then I started running into problems with files too large to fit on a single disk. Initially I was using TivotoGo to transfer the files and then Toast 8 to burn them, which is the recommended and commercial solution to the problem. Aside from slow transfer speeds, once I got the too large file over my Harddrive, burning would not be possible. After a lot of digging around, I would get the suggestion to save the file as a disc image, put it in TS folder and then Toast would compress it properly onto a DVD.
Toast however after taking over a day (like around 16 hours or so) to encode the file inevitably fails in the last part citing an error -39 in some cases.
After yet more digging around it was suggest I switch over to TivoDecodeManager, a shareware app that will transfer the file to the Mac and decode it as an MPEG. What I'm supposed to do to burn it after that is not clear. I understand I can use something called MPEG slipstream possibly to edit it, but then all advice seems to devolve into a discussion of formats, that assumes I know a lot more than I do about formats.
Has anyone specific advice? If not is there a crash course/tutorial in burning DVDs and the various formats I can take to get me out of this mess?

the simplest method is to connect TIVO to a DVD recorder
it will record in real time with little difference in picture quality

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