Storing multiple DV files across CDs or DVDs via QTime

Folks,
A couple of weeks ago, I attempted to get an answer to questions I had about storing multiple DV files across multiple DVDs or CDs using Quicktime. I failed to truly get a straight forward answer in non-techno English so having now acquired more info, here - for the non-geeks - is what I've learned in regular human non-geek English:
DVD Rs and CD Rs are pretty much the same thing. You have to check to make sure the drive you have on your computer CAN indeed "write" to these disks. You do that by pulling down the "About this Mac..." in the menu with the Apple icon.
Someone in the Comp Forum on Craigslist posted a terrific list of all the permutations of these types of storage disks with the minor differences between each (ex., DVD-RW vs. DVD+RW - some older machines cannot read one of these and I don't remember which). I can't find link to that post but you can try a search on CL or post there asking that the info be REposted. They're pretty nice there.
I haven't pursued determining whether Quicktime will store the multiple DV files across multiple disks but there is no need to since iMovie will do it. Each "clip" in iMovie is the equivlanet to a DV file so you can just drag each clip onto the icon of your DVD or CD. You'll be prompted for a name, et al.
My 1.5 hours of DV footage required 3.5 DVDs to store.
Each DV file is exactly that - a discrete file of video data similar to one specific MS Word file so - there is no need for any sort of program to sequentially store the files on multiple disks or bring them over FROM multiple disks. You the human do that just like when you store multiple documents on a bunch of disks.
File formats were also confusing to me and not really clearly explained here in regular-speak. The DV cam format that you can shoot in is video uncompressed. DV (file will be called "filename.dv" when it is in DV format) is compressed and there are a whole bunch of different compressed file formats. The MPEG term thrown around refers to the way a particular file of video data is compressed - the "compression scheme" used - i.e., there's MPEG 2, MPEG 4, etc. I don't remember what the acronym MPEG means but it's easy to find that out.
I hope the above is helpful to others like myself (and I already know I'm not alone via my research over the past 2 weeks) who have had a difficult time getting straight answers in understandable language regarding all of this.
I also got solutions to my PDA problem w/Tiger which I posted on the Apple Discussion site here. Getting a solution and answers there was more painful than getting this particular DVD/CD video stuff straightened out but both experiences suggest to me ...are you listening Apple... that the old school of tech writers and HI designers at Apple need to be "reinstalled".

Yes. If the data you choose to burn will take up more than one disk, spanning is automatically chosen and the interface tells you how many disks you'll need. You have the option to "Avoid splitting files when spanning". A good precautionary option if you're worried about an important file not reading back off a disk it has to cross over to. You end up with as many normal disks as it takes. There's no need to read them back in any particular order as long as you don't let it split files.

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