How to fit MPEG-2 file of 115 min movie on DVD?

What is the best way to export an MPEG-2 file (115 min video), where the size ranges from 3.5GB to 4.0GB to fit on a 4.7GB DVD? I changed the Bitrate to bring the file size down but don't want to loose a lot of quality.

timr13746007 wrote:
, it's too big for either high quality and standard.
I don't know what you mean by this.
Could you show us a screenshot of your export settings, similar to this but for dvd, showing these details:

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