How to shrink a long MPEG2 to fit on a DVD?

I have a long (5.7GB) MPEG2 file that I'd like to burn to a 4.7GB DVD. I'm a total ignoramus w.r.t. multimedia processing on Linux - how can I do that? Note that the running time on the movie is only about 1:15.
And in case you're wondering, the movie is "My Man Godfrey" from the wonderful public domain media site http://www.archive.org/details/movies.
Thanks.

A couple of thoughts (or what I'd do)
install mplayer, ffmpeg and build tovid in aur.
Then I'd go back and grab the mpeg4 from archive.org of your movie.
at a command prompt do:
tovid -dvd -in my_man_godfrey.avi -out My_Man_Godfrey
you get a mpg2 ready to turn into a DVD (eventually)
makexml -dvd -in My_Man_Godfrey.mpg -out MyManGodfrey
you get an xml file for the next step which creates a burnable ISO
makedvd MyManGodfrey.xml
or
makedvd -burn -device /dev/dvd -speed 4 MyManGodfrey.xml
to burn it.
Or try this and see if it shrinks any (probably not)
ffmpeg -i my_man_godfrey.mpeg -target ntsc-dvd test.mpg
If works can rename
I'm downloading the mpeg2 and may have other ideas after it finishes. The file size is way off for a about a movie of that length.
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