DVD burning space issue

I've been trying to burn a bunch of movie files (mostly .avi, but eventually some .mp4) to free up disc space on my hard drive. When I put in the DVDs I'll only be able to burn about 4.25G worth of data (out of the 4.7G). When I try to copy the same files from my brother's Window's PC, he'll be able to put at least 4.4G (I believe his burning program shows that the DVD has 4500 MB of space) onto the same disc.
I'm using an iMac G5 with a Matshita DVD-R UJ-825, the discs are Sony 4.7G DVD+R. I'm using Finder to burn the DVDs.
I've been unable to determine why I'm losing around .15G worth of information storage between the 2 OS's. I wouldn't worry about it normally, but for the amount of files I'm burning, losing out on one file per disc will add up in the end.
iMac G5   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

Vincent, No easy work-around. You need to find the space here are some options:
Music - mp3 files you have on Audio
iMovie/iDVD tutorials
Applications
In the past, when I had a system fault where the file system.log explanded to fill my hard disk to leave zero bytes free(!), I ended up deleting Office and Photoshop Elements to give me space to back-up to CD/DVD before a system restore.
Copy large files to your digital camera/music player memory.
regards
mrtotes

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