DVD from .avi with iDVD

I have a number of old home movies in .avi format (each one is about 350MB). I would like to make a few DVDs using iDVD with at least 4 movies per DVD. But as soon as I add two of these movies to iDVD, I see that it takes up 3.7 of the available 4.2 GB (even after choosing "Best Quality" encoding.
Can someone suggest how I could get at least 4 files on to a DVD?
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.8) Core Duo 2.0 GHz / 2GB RAM

iDVD doesn't care for size, but for length of projects...
onto a single-layered 4.7Gb dvd-r, you are allowed to fit 120min of project... your .avis are much compressed (mpeg? divx?), so the size in MB is no indicator..
or, use a 3rd party app as
VisualHub
http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/
.. which claims to make up to 18h (eighteen!) onto a disk...

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Tell Apple how you feel. They do read these comments, and often react. Be nice.
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