IDVD 08...Encoding Options

I am confused. I am using iDVD 08 to burn a dvd and I am unsure of which Encoding I should use. I want the best possible dvd quality. But the amount of space the video uses up with each setting doesn't make since.
"best performance" = 6.81 GB
"high quality" = 3.95 GB
"Professional Quality" = 3.95 GB
My question is which is better? I would assume the one that takes up the most space would be the higher quality one, but here that is "best performance" and not high quality. I did already burn a test copy of one of the videos that will be on the DVD under "best performance" and it turned out alright. But is "high quality" or "professional quality" any better?

Roughly Best Performance will only encode 60 minutes or less so does minimal compression of the source media at a fixed rate. The other options do a two pass encoding. The first pass will determine which parts of the project can stand the greatest amount of compressions, i.e. stills, etc. and which require the least, video where there's zooming or fast action. These will get less compression. This gives you different sizes. Some of the other more advanced users than I can give a more technical description.
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