EyeTV to iDVD - fit four hours on 4.7 GB

Question

I already e-mailed Elgato, and they told me this was impossible, at least the way I wanted to, and wondered if anyone has managed to succeed in doing this, as it is a struggle. My present system lets me go from EyeTV to Toast and create DVDs up to 4 hours in length. Unfortunately the menu selection in Toast is rather sparse, and I much prefer iDVD's menu selection process.
I haven't upgraded yet to iDVD 6, and was hoping someone here could convince me that it could replace Toast in what I do.
I have an Elgato EyeTV 200 box, and makes several exported formats with its EyeTV 1.8 software (which I may spend $50 to upgrade to version 2, if I hear it can do what I want). I captures the video as MPEG-2 muxed. Unfortunately if I want to use it in iDVD, I have to export it to DV first, and then import to iDVD. iDVD 5 anyway only lets me fit 2 hours of video on a single 4.7 GB DVD. Remember I said EyeTV can do 4 hours. Has anyone figured out a way to get the MPEG-2 files of EyeTV to be accepted by iDVD and maintain their 4 hour length when burnt by iDVD while using iDVD to construct menus in version 6 of iDVD? Does one need to go through iMovie to do this? If you outline a method to do this with iDVD 6, I'd like to know, as that would convince me to get iLife '06.
Thank you.

Answer 1

Well I do have Toast 6.1.1. I don't want to go
through the hassle of upgrading Toast again. It was
really silly the way they made it almost impossible
to get the 6.1.1 update when Toast 7 was released.
I finally managed to get it, but not after
twisting a few arms.
One option would be to use Popcorn.
Create a DVD image in Toast 6 and then use Popcorn to compress the DVD down so you can fit four hours onto a 4.7GB disk.
This functionality is included in Toast 7.
Personally I would get Toast 7.