Home Video Transfer Help - DVD Quality Compression?

OK, reading about video compression makes my head hurt ss I'm going to try to ask for a shortcut.
Rsfcker to the rescue?

So I'm converting old family videotapes to digtal (this being rsfck just pretend I'm transferring pron)...
I'm playing them back, running analog output into a digital converter and ending up with raw digital video ( .dv extension on my Mac ). And I'm getting some homking BIG files.....a 2 hour tape comes out to ~22 GB or so.

We all know that 2 hour movies fit just fine on DVDs and fit in high enough quality to pause the and see a clear, non-fuzzy still picture. I'm trying to compress (using QuickTime Pro) but the number of combinations of settings is seemingly infinite and so far every one I've tried resuls in a file
that looks passable (nut not DVD quality) when playing but is noticably fuzzy when paused.

Surely it can't be THAT hard - what setttings do YOU use to compress two hours of generic video into
a DVD-quality AND DVD-size file?

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