IDVD Status DVD Capacity issue

The DVD Capacity indicates 2.6GB & 77 min. when I start the burn process to create .img file. When it finishes (& usually fails) the DVD capacity indicates 3.6GB and 77 minutes. I've never had this problem before.
My iMovie consists of 786 jpg photos with subtitles on each and background music. iDVD will create the .img file OK if have no chapter markers. As soon as I add chapter markers I get the -34506 error. I tried exporting to QT and back. I've tried exporting to tape and back with same results. While working on this project I've done iMovies consisting of 99% imported video, 80 min. long and everything goes fine. I do all the delete pref.,repair permissions, clear caches, restart, etc.
Any idea why the DVD capacity indicates such a file increase? Must have something to do with "all photos". It appears about 1 hr of photos is the limit in iMovie. Why? I have plenty of free space on the hard drives. I wonder if my memory of 768MB is a limiting factor. Thanks Terry
Power Mac G4 1 GHz Dual Mac OS X (10.4.8)

<if my memory of 768MB is a limiting factor.>
are you talking about remaining memory on your HD? if so it sure would be a problem.
< indicates 2.6GB & 77 min... DVD capacity indicates 3.6GB and 77 minutes>
I'm not sure on this one, but I think that when iDVD encodes your movie, it resizes it to make the best use of the entire DVD space which is under 4GB (out of 4.7GB). This way it chooses the best size to provide the best quality /VS available space on the DVD given the entire numbers of files.
< I've tried exporting to tape and back with same results.>
instead of exporting the file (I assume from iMovie), why not use the file inside the iMovie Projectfile? No need to export anything. Save one step.
Chapters
1-Once you have saved your project in iMovie, you can select the iMovie file(wherever located- movies folder) while pressing the "control" key. You will be getting a list, containing "show package content".
2-if you have created chapters in iMovie, then select content>shared file>iDVD>XXX.mov.
(If you did not create any chapter, the folder iDVD would not exist. skip to "No chapters" below)
3-this file named XXXX.mox (XXX =the name of your file) you can now drag & drop over the iDVD window.
it will do 2 things. a- it will create one link called xxx.mov for selection of that movie. b- it will also create a folder called "scenes selection" containing all chapters in the iMovie.
all that without having to export your iMovie to QT.
No Chapters
If you did not have any chapters, thenn you can still follow the same as step 1 and 2 above, but from content>cache>timeline.mov.
This file contains the movie without any chapters.
try that
also look at what Silly Rabbit suggested me here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=689798&tstart=0
I have done what he suggested, and I am still in the encoding process, but it seems to have gone further than before!
Good luck
Michel

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I'm exporting as a qt reference using the dv/dvc pro setting, when I check the dvd on an ntsc monitor, the image is very streaky.
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