Won't add certain movie's into dvd

I have movies in a folder to add into Idvd and it wont let me add any that have a titlename. MPG the MPG part is ruining it!

At the moment I'm not booted to a volume which contains iDvd'08 but go to the Help Menu and type in this phrase and hit return:
Formats the work with iDvd
You'll see that the formats you mentioned above won't work with iDvd unless they are first converted to a format QT recognizes. You can do this with apps like Visual Hub, Mpegstream clip, Dvdxdv, or Toast.
Apple's pro apps (DVDSP) will work with this format also.
Here's a helpful link I think:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6773923&#6773923

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