Why does simply copying a DVD report "not enough space"?

This is a mystery - it should be so simple but it's not... anyone know what's wrong...?
I have a DVD which I burned myself - a simple data DVD. I wanted to make a copy of it so, in Disk Utiity, I did the following:
- Insert the source DVD in the drive
- Click "New Image", thus creating a .dmg file on the desktop
- Select this new .dmg image in the panel on the left
- Select "burn" and insert blank DVD when prompted.
Result: "Destination disk has insufficient space".
Exactly the same DVD media, exactly the same DVD drive. I have tried it multiple times and as an experiment I also tried it with a different source disk - a CD in that case, copying to blank CD media. Same problem. What can possibly be wrong?
Thanks!

Well for example the .dmg file for the CD is 549,812,289 bytes (549.8 MB on disk)

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