Mov file or mp4 file

I am creating a DVD and made some home movies (VHS) into .mov files. I was thinking that if I converted them into mp4 files, they would be a lot smaller. I converted one of them already and it seemed to degrade the quality a little.......I guess due to the compression ? The .mov files aren't super huge, but I was wondering if all four of them might not fit on the DVD. How much can I put on there?
I wanted to put each one on the DVD where you could click on the one you wanted to watch.
Just trying to get a little input and advice from people who have done this.
I used iDVD about a year ago for a small little project, but haven't done one this size before.
Thank you for any help.

Scott:
iDVD is concerned with total playing time, including menus, of the source material. You can get 120 minutes of playing time on a single layered DVD by using the Professional Quality or High Quality settings.
You can create 4 slideshows in iDVD by using the "+" button at the bottom and select Slideshow from the drop down menu. Then open each slideshow in turn and drag one of your movie files into it. This will let iDVD scale the movie to the TV Safe area like it does with slideshows from still photos. Be sure to set iDVD's slideshow preferences to always scale slides to TV safe area.
When you're ready to burn the project do a File->Save as Disk Image first. That will let you mount the disk image and play it with DVD Player to check the encoding (and typos-my biggest problem) before you commit it to disk. Once you're satisfied with the disk image you can burn it to disk with Disk Utility.
As long as the total playing time of the 4 movies is less than 120 minutes you're good to go.
OT

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"First, where are you playing the MPEG-2, that you see that jitter?"
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