Saving and Burning Video to CD

[Chris21]

I have currently got a Hauppauge Win TV - PVR - PCI running with a regular cd rewritter.
I have just recorded my first video capture on my PC. After doing this, I looked at the file size which was way over 800MB's for only half an hours worth of recording. I then tryed compressing the file, which only recdued it by about 10MB's.
Is there any way I can record to a smaller file size?
The system is only letting me save MPEG files ONLY!
Is there anything I can download?
Or is Adobe Premier any good for this job?
I want to be able to record between 1 -2 hours.

Another thing is, when I have recored enough video to fit on CD, the system is not allowing me to burn to CD. Am I doing something wrong?

[Baldrick]

please give us more information! what kind of format do you want, vcd, svcd, minidvd, divx??? and what tools are you using now?