Problems with Sony DVD Architect

[Boomer8404]

OK, I do a lot of downloading of TV shows through Torrents. I have been wanting to start burning them into DVD type video disks. My comp is a Dell XPS M1330 Notebook, running Vista SP1. The TV show files I have downloaded average about 50 minutes long(a 1 hour tv show with commercials edited out), in .avi format, 550-650MB in size. I converted the files to .mpg using 4U AVI MPEG Converter V5.6.9. with file sizes gaining in size 30-60MB. I used Sony DVD Architect 4.0 to create my DVD. At the present size of the .mpg files, I was only able to fit 2 video episodes on a DVD. I wanted to fit 4 episodes(like on normal TV Show DVD sets bought from the store), so I used the Fit To Disk option under the Optimize Disk menu. Once the disk was finally finished(took just over 2 hours), I browsed through the episodes on the disk and came to find out that the Fit To Disk option cut around 20 minutes off of each episode. This is very frustrating because of everything I have read about this basically says that the Fit To Disk option is supposed to re-render the complete files to a smaller MB size to allow fitment onto a DVD.

So, as I said in the title, I need help. Do I need to change settings, should I use different programs? How can I make this work? Thanks.

[guns1inger]

Normal TV discs are dual layer. I suspect your p[project is set for single layer, which is why it won't fit. If you use ConvertXtoDVD instead you can probably get three episodes on a single layer disc without killing quality too much.