Compressing and burning .dmg to DVD

Hi. I have a .dmg file that I want to burn to a DVD. The file is about 6.9 GB, too big for a normal DVD. I've tried everything I can find out to make this work, but without success. I've tried compressing the file (right click and compress, but the zip size remained the same size as the original). Disk utility won't even recognize the volume. Can anyone help?

8x SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
The DL is dual layer.
Is your disc dual-layer?
Did you buy high quality discs as indicated by this tip*:
http://www.macmaps.com/cdrfailure.html
Might you need to copy the contents of the DMG to a Disk Image formatted as a CD/DVD master disc image?  Disk Utility has that as an option to create images that are.
* Links to my pages may give me compensation.

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