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Can anyone help me on the easiest / cheapest way to transfer nice filmclips to DVD?

I have tried to copy some clips to DVD-RW, but so far, unless I buy an upgrade (there's a surprise!), I can only get about *four* clips on a disc! This is after downloading files from a disc that had about 20-25 filmclips in it. They were not Winzipped, and the disc seems to be a standard 4.7 GB disc DVD-R.

I don't suppose it's something daft like 4.7 GV DVD RW's have less capacity, or could it be the files were in some sort of new fangled 'long play' facility which is hard to replicate.

Using the sw that came with the pc, Image Mixer seems to be demanding I upgrade in order to have chance of writing video to DVD, whereas WMP / Sonic is the one where I can get about four files to a disc.

Do I just accept transferring a minimum of files for now, or is there an easy, cheap way to do the transfer?

The transfer to a DVD-RW disc is to play the clips on a quality DVD player which can play a wide range of media / wide range of sources.

Any help anyone can give is much appreciated.

Thank you.

I use this to make the DVD structure, menus and so on, then DVD Shrink to make the whole thing fit onto a single layer DVD-R.

TMPGEnc can take some getting used to, but it's a simple enough tool once you suss out how it works. Menus are simple looking things, but after using it a few times, you'll be able to produce decent looking discs.

I have tried a few programs but I have found TMPGenc DVD Author the best for me.
In particular it does not reprocess the files hence both quicker and no processing effects. Also it rarely crashes the PC.
Womble MPEG Video Wizard is very flexible but takes time to understand.

For copying discs or extracting titles DVD shrink is good and easy.
It can compress a disc so a dual-layer DVD-9 will fit on single layer DVD-5 but never tried this function.