MPEG DVD Compliant Encoding size

Hi I have just bought Premier CS3 and are just getting to grips with it, most things seem straight forward and the prog is excellent.
However I have come across 1 aspect that confuses me. I used Premier to capture 26 minutes of Mini DV Pal progressive footage and added 46 stills (2048x1536) and a wav file for background for the stills of 42mb.
I then exported the whole thing to Adobe Media Encoder used the MPEG2-DVD Pal High Quality template. This produced a combined m2v & wav of 800 MB.
This seemed lower than I was expecting so I fired up TMPGEnc 4 Xpress that I have use in the past and roughly asked it to perform a similar exercise and it came up with a file of 1.5 GB.
The quality looked the same so why the vast difference in size?
Is Main Concept's engine that much better than TMPGenc's or have I sacrificed some quality somewhere?
Forgive me if I am being stupid.
Thanks
Scott

Thanks for the responses!
So would this then be sufficient specs for anyone wanting to submit in MPEG format?
Video and audio must be perfectly synched, then output as 2 separate files.
Please follow specs outlined below:
Video: MPEG2
Dimensions = 720 x 480
GOP length = 15 frames
Frame Rate = 29.97 Hz (NTSC),
Aspect Ratio = 4:3
Bit-rate (constant or variable bit-rate) = 8.0 Mbps
Filename extension = .m2v
Audio: either  AC3 or .wav format
Sample rate = 48 kHz
Sample size = 16 bits/sample
Number of channels (front/rear) = 2/0 (stereo)
Filename extension = .ac3 or .wav
For someone wanting to submit a DV AVI file, would the above specs be the same, but a/v is combined in 1 file?
Can Mac users ouput an AVI file?
Thanks so much for all your input. It's greatly appreciated.
-Karen

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