Trouble getting Final Cut edited video to DVD

Question

So here's the background.. I had some old VHS videos that I wanted to edit and put on DVD for storage/easier viewing if the desire hit me. So it's been months and i'm still laboring over this stupid project finding the best work flow.
After struggling with iDVD, compressor (3 days to convert a 3 hr video, seriously?), DVD Studio Pro and other options I decided to forget the fancy menus and just export the **** thing. Quality isn't my main concern so I figured put it in VisualHub and convert to DVD. This worked fine for VHS Tape 1 but now I'm trying it to do it VHS Tape 2 and for some reason everytime it gets to a certain point, it hangs forever. Now initially I thought this was VisualHub, so I did a test conversion in Handbrake to find it hang in the same place. I then decided, I'd re-export my video from FCP as something must be wrong with the original export mp4 file. I exported from FCP again and tried VisualHub again, again hangs at the same time. I then inspected the video file and pinpointed the spot where VH stops converting, except it plays fine from the original exported mp4. I then checked in FCP to see if perhaps there was something in the timeline to cause this hitch, again no sign of trouble. I tried various formats for converting and the same thing happens over and over.
To make a very long story short, does anyone know why a video file would be hanging VH and any other program that tries to convert it in the same spot? Can anyone suggest a quick/easy workflow for FCP to DVD format. I'm working on my Macbook Pro so it's frustrating tying up my laptop for hours on end

Answer 1

I wasn't notified that there were replies to this so sorry for the delay. Thanks so much for the suggestions. The videos were captured with EyeTV; I'm pretty sure they have their own file type but not sure what actual encoding they use. At any rate, I can export to a variety of formats from there.
In my trials I had tried exporting both self-contained and not.. and while I usually didn't use Recompress All Frames, I did try it once and it didn't prove helpful.
I've tried compressor again and I got it to output, but I'm still trying to work out how to get it to come together in DVD-SP. I've used it before but never with separate audio & video files. I'd say I just need to sit down when I have some time to toy around.
As for option 2, I tried iDVD as my first option way way back when I started editing these but as the video files are fairly long, they weren't fitting on a standard dvd and as I don't have a dual-layer burner it wouldn't let me burn or save as a disc image, saying I needed to cut down the file which is not what I wanted to do. I did at one point try cutting the video in half, even then though the conversion process took 24+ hours which I'm not sure why.
Thanks for the suggestions. I know the MPEG-4 conversion makes no sense but it was sort of my last ditch effort to get something working. Quality of the video wasn't my main concern as it's already a low quality tv rip. Obviously I'd rather not make it worse, but I traded quality for expediency and it actually working.
Thanks again!