Why is a ripped DVD much bigger when imported to iDVD?

HI
I am quite confused and cant find any help on this.
I have a DVD which I ripped to the computer. If I import the resulting mv4 files to iDVD it becomes over 10Gb and is too big to go back on a DVD.
What I am trying to do is copy a DVD. Its a DVD and all fits on a DVD. But when using iDVD its massive and does not fit back onto a DVD. I cant find any solution online that explains how to just do this.
Does anyone know?
Thanks

For iDVD it's playing time that's important and not file size. As long as the playing time plus menus is 120 minutes or less it can be used in iDVD. The media will be re-compressed to fit on the disk.
OT

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